After the Lease Is Signed: Boutique Commercial Real Estate Services in NYC

Boutique commercial real estate services in NYC should not end at the signature. After the lease comes the buildout, then the daily running of the office, and for some companies a furnished floor that skips construction altogether. Nomad offers four connected services: brokerage, construction management, facilities management and Flex by Nomad. The reason to care when choosing a firm is that the allowance, the schedule and the landlord's approvals all rest on what the lease says, so the people who build should be heard before it is signed. Each service can be verified before you hire, and this page shows how.

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Updated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group

Four services after the search, and where each hands to the next

Search and lease. The broker's part ends with a signed lease that fixes three things: the allowance, the delivery date and what the landlord must approve.
Buildout. Construction management turns those three into design, filings and a contractor. Custom work typically runs 10 to 16 weeks.
Facilities. Once the team is in, facilities management keeps the office cleaned, maintained and supplied, with someone on call.
Furnished floors. Flex by Nomad is the route with no construction at all: a furnished private floor on flexible terms that a team can usually occupy two to four weeks after it signs.

Time is usually lost at the handoffs. With the people pricing the buildout seated beside the people negotiating the lease, design can begin while the lease is still in drafts.

Why to ask who runs the buildout before you hire the broker

The allowance, the delivery date and the approval terms are often settled by people who never see the construction budget. A broker with no part in the building work has less reason to check them against a real number: whether the allowance covers the contractor's estimate, whether the handover leaves time to build, and whether the landlord may refuse your plans or your contractor.

So ask every firm three things. Who prices the buildout before we sign? Who manages it afterward? Are those people employees or a referral? Any answer can work. Learning it after signing cannot.

Four ways to verify a boutique's services beyond the lease

Named clients. Ask for companies the firm placed and then built for. Nomad's client stories name them and show the finished offices.
Offices you can see. Photos and walkthroughs of completed floors, or a visit to one. Nomad's count stands at 300+ offices delivered.
The people. Meet whoever would manage your construction and whoever answers the facilities line.
A sample schedule. Ask for the week-by-week plan from a recent buildout of similar size.

A firm that offers these services in name only will struggle with the second and the fourth.

Honest scope: who the connected model suits, and the NoMad floors below

The connected model suits a company taking its first or second New York floor that has no real estate or facilities department of its own. A company with an in-house construction team may want brokerage alone, which is a service in its own right. Every floor Nomad lists is in Manhattan.

The block below shows floors in NoMad, the blocks north of Madison Square Park where growth-stage companies cluster and where a team that has outgrown Flatiron often lands.

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The full guide

This page is the short answer. The long one, with the numbers worked through, is here:

Does hiring a firm for the lease mean using its builders too?

Not by the nature of a lease. One common arrangement is the tenant build: the tenant picks its own contractor, the landlord signs off on the drawings and on that contractor, and the allowance is paid back against invoices. At Nomad, brokerage, construction management and facilities management are separate services, and a tenant on a direct lease adds facilities management as a package. Ask any firm, ours included, which parts are optional, and say early who will build, so the lease reflects it.

What does facilities management cover once we have moved in?

The running of the office inside your own space: cleaning, maintenance and repairs, keeping the pantry stocked, managing vendors, and someone to call when something breaks. The building's property manager still looks after the lobby, the elevators and the base systems on the owner's behalf.

Is a Flex by Nomad floor a service or a listing?

Both. It is a private floor with the furniture, wiring, cleaning and support arranged, usually taken for 12, 24 or 36 months. It suits a team that needs to be working within weeks or would rather not manage a buildout at all.

When should the construction team first see a floor?

Before the letter of intent, on the finalist floors. A test fit and a contractor's estimate at that stage give the broker a real number to size the allowance request against. After signing, the allowance is fixed and the estimate can only tell you what you owe.

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Tell us three things: team size, timing, budget. A first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours, with the asking rent on every floor that publishes one.

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