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What is lease abstraction? Guides for CRE teams

Practical, CRE-literate explainers on lease abstraction: what it is, what a lease abstract contains, what it costs, and how to read the rent, CAM, option, and critical-date terms that drive value and risk across a portfolio. Each guide is written for the people who actually work the leases.

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What is lease abstraction? A guide for CRE teams

What is lease abstraction: the process of pulling the key terms out of a commercial lease into a structured summary, why CRE teams do it, and how AI changes the work.

June 2026 9 min read
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What is a lease abstract and what does it include

What is a lease abstract: the one-sheet summary of a commercial lease, the standard fields it contains, and how it differs from the full lease document.

June 2026 8 min read
Costs

How much does lease abstraction cost in 2026

How much does lease abstraction cost: a breakdown of offshore per-lease pricing, AI tools, and software plans, with the hidden costs of doing it by hand.

June 2026 10 min read
Guides

CAM reconciliation explained for commercial leases

CAM reconciliation explained: how common-area maintenance charges work, base year vs net, caps and exclusions, and how to keep true-ups defensible.

June 2026 11 min read
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Lease critical dates checklist for CRE teams

A lease critical dates checklist: every deadline to track in a commercial lease, from renewal and termination notices to escalation steps and option windows.

June 2026 8 min read
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Commercial lease key terms every CRE team should know

Commercial lease key terms: a plain-language glossary of the rent, escalation, CAM, option, and clause terms that drive value and risk in a lease.

June 2026 10 min read
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Rent roll: what it is, what it includes, and an example

Rent roll explained: the row-per-tenant report of who occupies a property and what they pay, the columns it should include, a worked example, and how to build one straight from the leases.

July 2026 9 min read
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CAM charges: what common area maintenance includes and what it costs tenants

CAM charges explained: what common area maintenance covers in a commercial lease, how the charges are calculated and billed, typical caps and exclusions, and how to check yours against the lease.

July 2026 10 min read
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Percentage rent: how percentage leases work, with the breakpoint formula

Percentage rent explained: how retail percentage leases work, the natural breakpoint formula with a worked example, what counts as gross sales, and how to track the clause across a portfolio.

July 2026 9 min read
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Triple net lease (NNN): what it is and who pays what

Triple net lease explained: what an NNN lease is, who pays taxes, insurance, and CAM, how NNN charges are calculated with a worked example, and how it compares to gross and modified gross leases.

July 2026 11 min read
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Modified gross lease: what it means and who pays what

Modified gross lease explained: what a modified gross lease is, how expenses split between landlord and tenant, the base year mechanic, and how it compares to full service and triple net leases.

July 2026 9 min read
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Holdover tenant: what it means and a landlord's options

Holdover tenant explained: what a holdover tenancy is, the holdover rent premium most commercial leases impose, the difference between holdover and a month-to-month tenancy, and how a landlord ends it.

July 2026 8 min read

Stop reading, start abstracting

Turn your next lease PDF into a source-linked abstract

Upload a commercial lease and get the dates, rent, escalations, options, CAM, deposit, and key clauses extracted and traced to the page and clause they came from. Export to Excel or PDF.