A Real Estate Brokerage Firm Whose Record a Startup Can Check First
A real estate brokerage firm runs a startup's commercial lease from the brief to the signature: the search, the tours, the landlord proposals, the letter of intent and the lease terms. The harder question is which firm, and the fair way to settle it is evidence you can check before any call. Nomad's is public: 300+ offices delivered, 2M+ square feet leased, client stories that name the companies, the brokers by name, and an address on every listing with an asking rent on nearly all. On your search, we work for you. In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee.
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Test us with a shortlistUpdated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group
Four proof points to check before you call
- The floors. Every listing shows its address and size, and nearly every one shows its asking rent. Everything available is on one page.
- The clients. The client stories name the companies and show the finished offices, several of them as 3D walkthroughs.
- The people. The team page names the brokers and principals, with what each one does.
- The count. 300+ offices delivered and 2M+ square feet leased, in New York.
Nomad Property Group, a licensed New York real estate broker, works from 276 Fifth Avenue, Suite 402. None of this replaces a conversation, but all of it can be read first, in private, at your own pace.
What a published rent and address let a tenant test
A firm that prints its numbers can be held to them. With the address you can walk past the building, time the commute and look at the lobby before anyone schedules a tour. With the size and the asking rent you can work out the monthly cost yourself: the rate times the square feet, divided by twelve.
It also gives you a check on the firm. If a shortlist quotes a figure that differs from the listing page, you can ask why. The block below draws on every floor we list for that reason: the listings are part of the record.
What the firm does on a startup's lease, step by step
- Turns headcount, timing and budget into a written brief.
- Surveys direct space, subleases and floors not yet advertised.
- Sends the floors that fit, with sizes and prices. A first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours.
- Walks the best of them with you in a single afternoon, then orders a test fit on the finalists.
- Asks the landlords for proposals and restates each as a cost over the whole term.
- Negotiates the letter of intent, then works the lease with your attorney.
The record after the signature
The 300+ offices delivered are offices built and handed over, not only leases signed. Once a lease is signed, Nomad's construction management team runs the design, the city filings and the contractor. A custom buildout typically takes 10 to 16 weeks, and a furnished or pre-built floor skips most of that.
After move-in, facilities management keeps the floor running. The client stories show this stage as finished offices, which is why they are worth reading before the first call.
What to look for in a leasing broker, ours included
- Recent leases for tenants of your size, in the neighborhoods you are weighing.
- The name of the person who will run your search once the pitch is over.
- Offers compared on what each floor costs over the term, with free rent, the allowance and escalations counted.
- A plain answer on pay and on conflicts. Nomad also offers agency leasing and owner representation, so the conflict question is a fair one to put to it as well: does the firm lease anything on this shortlist for its owner? Where the answer is yes, New York treats the arrangement as dual agency and the tenant and the owner must each give informed consent.
The complete list of questions to ask is in how to choose a tenant rep broker.
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
- 127 West 26th Street, Entire 7th Floor 9,500 sq ft $50/sq ft Chelsea about 54 people
- 45 Broadway, Partial 12th Floor 2,624 sq ft $60/sq ft FiDi about 15 people
- One Soho Square, Partial 2nd Floor 27,344 sq ft $68/sq ft SoHo about 156 people
- Empire State Building, Partial 43rd Floor 5,621 sq ft $90/sq ft NoMad about 32 people
- 4 World Trade Center, Partial 44th Floor 5,023 sq ft $115/sq ft FiDi about 29 people
- 66 Hudson Boulevard, Partial 53rd Floor 10,517 sq ft $200/sq ft Hudson Yards about 60 people
The full guide
This page is the short answer. The long one, with the numbers worked through, is here:
Related topics
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How can a startup verify a brokerage firm's track record?
Ask for things that can be checked without the firm in the room: named clients you can call, addresses of offices it delivered, and current listings with prices. Then compare what the firm says with what it has published. A record that exists only in a pitch deck is a claim, not a record.
Does Nomad publish the asking rent on every floor?
On nearly every one, and the address and size on all of them. Where a rent is not shown, a broker can give you the figure.
Who at the firm would run our search?
A principal is on every deal, and you can meet the brokers who would run your search before committing to anything. The team page lists them with their roles.
What does the firm cost a startup?
Usually nothing out of pocket. In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee. Add cost to the record you check: have each firm on your list, this one included, say in writing who pays its fee on your deal and what it wants signed before the search.
Talk to a broker
Want this answered for your team?
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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