Full-Service Commercial Real Estate Brokerage: What It Includes, Search to Running Office
Full-service commercial real estate brokerage is brokerage that keeps going after the lease: the same firm builds the space, furnishes and wires it, and runs the office once the team is in. Nomad's version is tenant-side brokerage, construction management, facilities management and Flex by Nomad, alongside agency leasing and owner representation for building owners. On your search, we work for you. Every floor we list is in Manhattan, across 11 submarkets, and none is in Brooklyn. Nomad has delivered 300+ offices and leased 2M+ square feet. The point of full service is the handoff: each stage is planned by the people who will carry out the next one.
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Show me the whole bookUpdated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group
What full service means in commercial real estate
The phrase is used loosely, so here is a test. A brokerage finds space and negotiates a lease. A full-service brokerage also does what comes after: it builds the space, furnishes and wires it, and keeps it running. A firm that calls itself full service and hands you a list of outside vendors at signing is a brokerage with referrals.
Many full-service firms work the owner's side too, leasing buildings for landlords as well as finding space for tenants. Nomad does both, which is why the question of who it works for on your deal has a section below.
The four services, and what each hands to the next
- Tenant-side brokerage. The brief, the shortlist, tours, proposals, the letter of intent and the lease. It hands construction a test fit, an improvement allowance checked against a contractor's estimate, and a delivery date.
- Construction management. Design, Department of Buildings filings, landlord approvals and the management of the contractor, over the 10 to 16 weeks a custom buildout typically takes. It hands facilities a finished office.
- Facilities management. Cleaning, repairs, maintenance and vendors after move-in. When the lease nears its end, the cycle returns to brokerage for the renewal or the move.
- Flex by Nomad. A furnished private floor on a term of 12, 24 or 36 months, ready two to four weeks after signing, for a company that would sooner skip construction.
What Nomad does lists every service, including asset management for owners.
Who Nomad works for, and the dual agency disclosure
On a tenant's search, Nomad works for the tenant. Nomad also offers agency leasing and owner representation, which means some Manhattan buildings are leased by Nomad for the people who own them.
The two meet when one of those buildings fits your brief. That is dual agency, and in New York one broker may act for both sides only when both have given informed consent. Ask at the start which buildings on your shortlist it applies to. Doing both kinds of work has a use for tenants: a firm that leases buildings knows from the inside what an owner will concede.
Where: Manhattan, across 11 submarkets
Every floor we list is in Manhattan: Bryant Park, Chelsea, FiDi, Flatiron, Grand Central, Hudson Yards, Midtown, NoMad, Penn Plaza, SoHo and Union Square. We publish no listings in Brooklyn or anywhere else outside Manhattan. A company based in another borough that wants a Manhattan office gets the same service.
The block below draws on the whole book: a spread of floors, each with its size and asking rent, and the current citywide median. Every office for rent has the full list.
What is on our book right now
Live from our listings · 6 of the 49, cheapest firstNomad lists 49 floors across 11 Manhattan submarkets right now, from 2,500 to 27,344 square feet. 46 publish an asking rent: $43 to $200 per square foot per year, with a median of $75.
- Floors
- 49
- Sizes
- 2,500-27,344 sq ft
- Asking rent
- $43-$200 / sq ft
- Median
- $75 / sq ft
- 115 West 30th Street, Partial 4th Floor 3,500 sq ft $55/sq ft Chelsea about 20 people
- 1239 Broadway, Entire 12th Floor 12,500 sq ft $62/sq ft NoMad about 71 people
- 6 Greene Street, Entire 2nd Floor 4,900 sq ft $78/sq ft SoHo about 28 people
- 1450 Broadway, Entire 40th Floor 4,109 sq ft $95/sq ft Bryant Park about 23 people
- 503-511 Broadway, Penthouse 5,552 sq ft $125/sq ft SoHo about 32 people
- 836 Broadway, Entire 2nd Floor 13,754 sq ft rent on request Union Square about 79 people
The full guide
This page is the short answer. The long one, with the numbers worked through, is here:
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What does a full-service brokerage do that a broker alone does not?
It stays after the signature. A broker's job ends with the lease; a full-service firm then manages the buildout, brings in furniture and cabling, and runs the office day to day. The practical benefit is that the allowance and the schedule were negotiated by people who knew what the build would need.
Do we have to use every service?
No. Each service has its own scope, and a company taking a furnished floor may need no construction at all. Say when you first get in touch which stages you want help with, so the scope is clear before work starts.
Is Nomad's coverage only Manhattan, or other boroughs too?
Our published listings are all in Manhattan, and none is in Brooklyn. If your team is based in another borough and is weighing a Manhattan office, the search, the lease and the buildout work the same way.
How is a full-service firm paid?
Brokerage is paid by commission when a lease is signed, and in most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee. Ask how construction and facilities work would be scoped and priced for your floor before you commit to either. How the commission works is on the brokerage page.
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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.
- Within the houra broker reaches out during business hours, no automated triage
- On your sidewe work for you on your search, and the landlord usually pays our fee
- Open pricingasking rent published for 46 of 49 floors, size and address for all
- 300+ officesdelivered in New York, 2M+ sq ft leased
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