A tenant-representation brokerage for the San Francisco Bay Area.
We represent occupiers exclusively. Office and industrial leases from 5,000 to 250,000 square feet, across San Francisco, the Peninsula, and the East Bay.
What tenant representation actually involves.
Tenant-rep brokers spend most of their week on coordination, not the high-leverage judgment work clients actually pay for.
- Deeply understanding tenant requirements
- Pulling a list of candidate listings
- Sifting through city docs for zoning and permits
- Confirming pricing and availability one landlord at a time
- Scheduling tours across 5–10 buildings
- Negotiating TI packages with listing brokers
Our brokers handle the work that matters to the outcome: defining the requirement, walking the buildings, and negotiating the lease. The rest is supported by software built in-house, so each broker can run more searches in parallel without thinning the attention any one client receives.
The engagement, end to end.
- 01
Intake call with the principal
Your broker walks through your business, headcount trajectory, lease constraints, and what you're optimizing for. 30 minutes.
- 02
Obia builds the search overnight
Listing universe pulled. Zoning and permitting flagged. Pricing and availability confirmed across candidate landlords. Comparable lease comps surfaced from our own deal database.
- 03
Your broker walks the shortlist with you
5–10 buildings, scheduled in one or two days. Real questions. Real pushback on the landlord's broker.
- 04
We negotiate and sign
TI package benchmarked against current Bay Area comps. Lease terms reviewed clause by clause. You see the negotiation as it happens, not after the fact.
Most tenants don't know if their lease is a good deal.
Today the average prospective tenant trusts their broker's word on pricing. They have no visibility into the listing universe their broker considered, no way to track progress on the search, and no benchmarks for whether the TI package they were offered is competitive. We rebuilt the workflow so tenants see everything.
Real comps, not vibes.
Every pricing recommendation is backed by comparable lease data, visible to you, not held in a drawer.
Days, not weeks.
Most clients see a vetted shortlist within 5 business days. Tours scheduled inside the same week.
One senior on every deal.
A senior broker is on every walkthrough and every negotiation. No junior analyst is doing your search.
Tenant representation, exclusively.
Obia is a Bay Area commercial real estate brokerage focused entirely on the occupier side of office and industrial leasing. We do not represent landlords. Each engagement is run by a senior broker, supported by software we built ourselves so the work scales without an analyst bench.
- Markets
- San Francisco · Peninsula · East Bay · South Bay
- Asset classes
- Office · Industrial · Flex
- Lease sizes
- 5,000 to 250,000 SF
Get in touch.
Whether you have a space requirement, a question, or just want to learn more about how we work, send us a note.