Seeking inspiration for creative lease clauses that achieve higher NOI or mitigate risk
For a little background, I’m in a market that’s pretty set in its ways (CRE in Sweden), a large national property owners organisation has pretty much set the standard lease structure that most companies adhere too. I thought I’d reach out to some CRE actors internationally (ie you) and see if I can figure out what others do to kick up the NOI or creatively reduce landlord/property owner risk in their leases. 

I work mostly with office properties but have some retail as well.

Examples of what I’m looking for is for example how I know some retail centres have an adjustment for inflation that actually exceeds inflation (Adjusted via a CPI+x% formula) which would drive property value/NOI without the need to renegotiate. Another example is applying a CAM structure for office leases (pretty much unheard of here, other than tax and heating).

What creative clauses have you seen?
[{"id": "er93sun", "text": "You can charge for parking. You can charge for building signage. You can charge for building signage in virtual or augmented reality. You can add snack machines and charge for those as well. You can reduce costs in how frequently you use your elevators, lobby hours ect. \n\nThere was even a landlord that would only accept rent in gold, because they did not trust the local currency.", "replies": [{"id": "er96kxa", "text": "Thanks for the ideas! Vending machines are definitely not something we are used to working with! \n\nRegarding signage, it\u2019s usually something that we include in order to secure the main office lease. A method I try to use is to \u201cinclude\u201d it as a freebie for the first rental period by writing a separate lease with a period matching the office lease period and a rent discount of a 100% for the period. That way, it doesn\u2019t cost the tenant anything at first and once they renew (leases are usually automatically renewed in Sweden if you don\u2019t actively terminate it) I get the additional rent. :)", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "er9b2ks", "text": "The thing you need to keep in mind is that the market sets the lease terms that tenants will accept. If all of the competition charges X and you try to charge X+Y then you\u2019re going to need some kind of differentiator that makes those tenants willing to pay the extra - but if you really have something that tenants will pay extra for then you don\u2019t need to add lease terms you just need to change the base rental rate.", "replies": [{"id": "er9bwxu", "text": "Sure thing, that\u2019s why I\u2019m looking for creative clauses. This way, I can be much better off in the long term (for example, year three or four of a lease period with the example given earlier) and still remain competitive year one when being evaluated against the market and other lease options. Most people look at the cost year one and don\u2019t always price other terms in the lease correctly.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "erkgxoe", "text": "You can pass through capital expenditures, primarily in retail. In the US, usually only national or well represented tenants will have clauses in their lease saying CapEx can\u2019t be passed through. However, this is primarily for retail. Passing through CapEx in office doesn\u2019t really fly.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]