Coastal Commercial Real Estate helps small and mid-market businesses in Metro Vancouver find, negotiate, and secure office and retail space — acting as the tenant’s advocate in a commercial leasing market that overwhelmingly favors landlords with institutional resources.
Tenant-Side Representation
Commercial landlords in Vancouver retain experienced brokerages on every listing. Business owners searching for space without equivalent representation often sign leases with unfavorable escalation clauses, unclear operating cost definitions, and limited improvement allowances. Coastal exists to level that playing field.
The firm’s brokers tour available inventory before presenting a shortlist, negotiate letter-of-intent terms on the tenant’s behalf, and coordinate legal review of final lease documents. Coastal’s fee is paid by the landlord’s side of the transaction — tenants pay nothing out of pocket for representation.
Specialties
- Office leasing for professional services firms, startups, and nonprofits
- Retail leasing for food and beverage, health and wellness, and boutique retail
- Lease renewal and renegotiation strategy
- Sublease disposition for tenants downsizing
- Market analytics and comparable rent benchmarking
We thought we had found the right space on our own. Coastal showed us three better options at lower effective rents that we never would have seen without tenant-side brokerage.
Business owner, Yolyc review
Coastal Commercial Real Estate was founded in 2018 by Jeanette Fong, a licensed commercial real estate advisor with twelve years of brokerage experience in British Columbia. The firm operates from Gastown and serves tenants across Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, and Surrey.