REAL ESTATE SERVICES

Whether you purchase or lease your new office space, you will require a great deal of information to evaluate each potential space and its possible impact on your practice.
Your Entrustment realty professional will help you through the process by providing you with market demographic studies, environmental research and in-depth financial analysis of each property. That information will include an analysis of the property’s location in relation to nearby businesses and the surrounding population. Your realtor will research and analyze typical lease payments or purchase prices for other, similar commercial properties and office complexes in nearby areas.

In addition to providing analysis on the cost of each property, including typical maintenance costs and possible required renovations, your realtor will also act on your behalf in negotiating contracts with the lessor or seller of the property you decide on. This service is available both for the initiation of a new lease or purchase, and at each subsequent lease renewal or sale/purchase, and will include arranging property inspections, arranging for financing and facilitation the final lease signing or purchase closings.

Just as the location and outward appearance of your office sets the tone for how your practice is perceived, the layout of that physical space can have a major impact on both your ease of moving patients through their treatment, and the comfort and safety of both staff and visitors. Leasing adequate square footage is just the beginning of the process, and, often, the easiest step. Looking at that space with an educated eye and deciding what layout will best serve your practice is the job of a design professional. Your Entrustment Health architect will help you decide:

• How much space is needed for each treatment room? How many rooms should there be?
• What specialty areas are needed, and how big should they be? What special amenities (protected high-voltage electrical service, gas lines, plumbing, safety shielding or sound-deadening in walls) is needed, and what effect might these needs have on the surrounding spaces?
• What kind of special accommodations are needed to meet state or federal requirements for access and safety (fire codes, handicapped accessibility, etc.)? If modifying an existing building, is the underlying structure adequate to support the weight of heavy imaging or treatment equipment?
• What flexibility in design is possible to allow for future expansion?

While interior design is often less critical that designing the layout of your new space as a whole, it nonetheless has a major impact on your patients’ perception of your practice, and can impact the comfort and morale of your staff. Your Entrustment design professional can help you in choosing furnishings, decorative items and amenities that make your practice feel attractive, clean, and comfortable.

Interior design can also help in keeping a smooth flow of foot traffic through your office by determining the ideal placement of key areas such as reception and your nursing/control desk to best serve patients. Decisions like those are key in ensuring that the layout of your office offers easy movement without causing extra steps or unnecessary congestion.

If you decide that the best solution for your practice is to buy land and build your own offices, you’re going to need help. The challenges are many: site selection, site engineering, design/build, contractor selection and management. Your Entrustment construction specialist will walk you through the process, help you decide which options are best for you, and partner with you throughout the construction, from property purchase to final walk-throughs and acceptance.

Purchasing or building your office space will, most likely, be the largest financial transaction you will ever undertake. It only makes sense, then, to work with trusted professionals in that process. Your Entrustment Health lending professional will evaluate your purchasing power and advise you on the best approach to meet your needs, and suggest a variety of options to meet individual scenarios. They will help you secure the commercial mortgage product or construction loan you need.