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Advocate Commercial
Real Estate Advisors

Advocate Commercial Real Estate Advisors is a full-service commercial real estate company that provides advisory and financial services to a wide variety of industries while focusing on the needs of tenants.

Advocate Advisors was founded in 2003 by a group of commercial real estate brokers who saw a need for transparency and unbiased representation in the industry. Advocate’s sole focus is providing commercial tenant representation services for clients locally and nationally.

The firm’s founding principle is the concept that tenants require an unbiased and conflict-free advocate when negotiating commercial office leases. Advocate’s only fiduciary responsibility is to the space user and 100 percent of Advocate’s revenue comes from tenant representation.

As a result, Advocate Advisors offers unbiased representation and doesn’t have obligations to any buildings or landlords, which means it doesn’t play favorites. As a result, its clients have:

  • Freedom of choice – Advocate Advisors will never push clients towards a deal that isn’t a perfect fit for their company’s needs just to fulfill a quota.

  • Impartial negotiation – Advocate Advisors will push harder for better terms and a better deal, because its clients are it sole focus.

 

Advocate Advisors’ goal is to make complicated real estate transactions simple, so you have more time to focus on what’s important for your brand. It works with new startups, companies looking to expand or companies ready to restructure a current lease.

Advocate's founding principle is the concept that tenants require an unbiased and conflict-free advocate when negotiating commercial office leases. Advocate’s only fiduciary responsibility is to the space user and 100 percent of Advocate’s revenue comes from tenant representation.

Advocate Advisors is headquartered in downtown Chicago with an additional office in Southfield, Michigan.

Services

Your Representative

Ben Herman

Senior Vice President

Your representative at Advocate Commercial Real Estate Advisors is Ben Herman, senior vice president.

Ben joined Advocate Advisors in 2016 bringing 14 years of experience with commercial real estate market and lease analysis, strategic planning of real estate assets (both leased and owned), and negotiation on behalf of clients.

Prior to joining Advocate, he was an Associate Director with Mohr Partners and Newmark Knight Frank. He has worked with numerous national and international companies to assist them in the development of a comprehensive real estate strategy. Past clients include Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Wolverine World Wide, Rexair, Kautex, Garan Lucow Miller P.C., Hylant and Autoneum.

Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and international business from Oakland University.

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