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Agency Leasing Services

Driving optimised leasing investments

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Our Agency Leasing advisors go beyond filling spaces with tenants.

Our advisors provide intelligent strategies and comprehensive support to convert acquisitions into high-performing investments. In South Korea’s sophisticated market, we navigate complex regulations and tenant expectations. From Seoul's CBD to emerging districts, our local market knowledge allows us to create strategies that optimise every investment, ensuring long-term asset value and performance.

What Sets Us Apart

Optimising Lease Potential

We devise tailored leasing strategies by analysing investment objectives, tenant mix, and financing structures. Our expertise in the unique deposit system, including South Korea’s jeonse arrangements, ensures optimal lease structures that align with landlord goals and regulatory requirements under the Commercial Lease Protection Act.

In-Depth Market Awareness

We manage the entire marketing process with top-tier creative specialists, technology, and digital promotion. Our localised approach recognises Seoul’s distinct submarket dynamics, from Gangnam to emerging districts, positioning assets strategically within competitive market conditions to attract and retain high-quality tenants.

Flawless Execution

Leveraging deep market connections, our advisors analyse prospective tenants, create targeted canvassing programmes, and track market trends. We navigate complex tenant renewal rights and rent increase limitations to ensure every leasing strategy is executed flawlessly, maximising asset performance and returns.

Integrated Service Connectivity

We offer unified capabilities including project management, property management, sustainability consulting, capital markets advisory, and valuation. This allows our clients to gain unparalleled access to local, national, and global trends and occupiers, ensuring a holistic approach to their real estate strategy.

Services

Integrated Services



Asset Services


Optimise asset performance through strategic property management and operational excellence tailored to Korea’s regulatory environment and tenant expectations.  

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Project & Development


Navigate construction and development landscapes with expert project management, from planning through delivery, ensuring compliance with local regulations and market requirements.

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Rethinking Properties


Transform underperforming assets through strategic repositioning, leveraging market insights and innovative approaches to maximise investment potential.

Specialisation

Industry Specialisations



Office


Our office leasing specialists navigate Seoul’s Grade A market, where stable vacancy and rental growth are driven by GBD pre-leasing. We leverage deep corporate relationships and an understanding of sophisticated renewal frameworks to maximise occupancy and rental returns for our clients.


Industrial & Logistics


In the evolving logistics sector, marked by concentrated investment despite supply constraints, our team provides strategic positioning for warehouse and distribution facilities. We understand the regulatory environment and tenant demand for advanced logistics centres, ensuring optimal asset performance.

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Retail


Seoul’s retail districts have shown resilience with stable vacancy rates. Our specialists understand the unique dynamics of these key areas, delivering innovative leasing solutions that enhance asset value and drive footfall, positioning properties for long-term success.

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Team

Josh-Lim
Josh Lim

Senior Director
Seoul, Korea, Republic of


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Research

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Research

Reimagining Workplaces: Why Efforts Fall Short—and How to Get It Right

The workplace is at a crossroads. Despite investments in redesigns, return-to-office mandates and new technologies, employee engagement is declining, collaboration is challenging, and office use continues to lag. Leaders are asking: What will it take to make the workplace work again?
Linsey Smith • 27/03/2026
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Insights • Supply Chain

Logistics Tenant Profile #3 – Yongin: Still the Capital’s Cold Chain Leader?

Yongin has long been recognized as a key cold chain logistics hub in the SMA. While Suji and Giheung districts host many aging refrigerated and frozen logistics centers, new town developments have limited opportunities for redevelopment in these areas.
Carter Kim • 28/02/2023
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Insights • Supply Chain

Logistics Tenant Profile #2 – Icheon: Korea’s Premier Logistics Hub

Icheon has established itself as a traditional logistics center supply region within the SMA, thanks to its relatively low land costs and strategic location where major highways connecting the country intersect.
Carter Kim • 31/01/2023
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Insights • Supply Chain

Logistics Tenant Profile #1 – Incheon: From Trade Hub to E-commerce Battleground

Incheon has seen a steady increase in demand for logistics centers due to the growing cargo volumes at Incheon Airport and Incheon Port
Carter Kim • 30/12/2022
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Insights • Workplace

2022 Office Tenants Profile Report

The Seoul office leasing market has undergone substantial changes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Suki Kim • 16/12/2022
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Insights

2022 Seoul High Street Retail Report

With the global retail market experienced an unprecedented crisis due to COVID-19, Seoul has shown signs of recovery from a prolonged recession.
Suki Kim • 30/09/2022

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Our comprehensive agency leasing services include strategic asset analysis, property positioning and marketing, tenant targeting and screening, lease negotiation, and ongoing market intelligence. We specialise in navigating South Korea’s Commercial Building Lease Protection Act requirements, deposit structures, and renewal rights to optimise landlord returns while ensuring regulatory compliance.

We leverage deep market knowledge of Seoul’s distinct submarkets, from CBD and YBD to GBD to position properties strategically. Our approach includes comprehensive market analysis, targeted tenant identification, property-specific marketing campaigns, and relationship-driven outreach to credit-worthy tenants who align with your investment objectives and asset profile.

Key considerations include understanding tenant renewal rights (up to 10 years under current regulations), rent increase limitations (5% cap), deposit requirements, and submarket dynamics. Landlords must also consider building specifications, proximity to transportation hubs, and tenant mix strategies that align with Grade A office standards and emerging workplace trends.

We develop comprehensive leasing strategies that balance immediate occupancy goals with long-term value creation. This includes tenant diversification, strategic lease structuring within Korea’s regulatory framework, proactive renewal management, and market positioning that enhances asset competitiveness across economic cycles.

Green leasing incorporates sustainability clauses that promote energy efficiency, waste management, and data sharing between landlords and tenants. In an evolving ESG landscape, green leases can command premium rents, improve building performance, and align with government sustainability initiatives while supporting both parties’ environmental goals through shared incentives and responsibilities.

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