What We Do

Partnering with Rock Spring Real Estate Solutions provides you with impartial support and unparalleled expertise, empowering you to create a dynamic, efficient, and inclusive workplace that fosters collaboration and drives productivity.

We understand that your talent is your most valuable resource. Our process begins with a deep dive into your unique workforce needs.

Here’s how we help you create the best workplace solutions:

Data-Driven Decisions

We leverage cutting-edge technology to provide data-driven insights that guide your flexible work transition.

Strategic Deal Negotiations

Clients benefit from our market expertise and nationally recognized negotiation skills to secure real estate transactions that deliver exceptional value and align with your financial interests and operational goals.

Cost-Effective Outcomes

We craft innovative and cost-effective real estate solutions and strategies that align with your budget projections to empower your business to thrive in today’s dynamic work environment.

Tailored Workplace Solutions

We consider factors such as tasks, teams, work styles, personalities, and individual preferences to help you create spaces that optimize productivity, foster collaboration, and enhance employee well-being.

Flexible Workplace Options

Recognizing that traditional office spaces aren’t always the perfect fit, we offer flexible workplace solutions designed to adapt to your unique and evolving needs. Whether your team is growing, shrinking, or embracing new technologies, our solutions ensure your space can seamlessly accommodate change while optimizing your real estate strategy.

Compensation Models

We believe in fair, transparent compensation and offer flexible options to suit your needs. Whether you prefer a traditional brokerage model or a consulting-based approach, we provide unbiased solutions tailored to your specific requirements.

Partnership Models and Fees

Partnership models to suit every client’s needs. Transparent compensation structures without conflicts of interest.

Rock Spring Real Estate Solutions is more creative and flexible than traditional public real estate companies and local brokerage firms because we provide total transparency and a variety of client-aligned compensation options.

You have the option to separate your space needs analysis from the traditional broker compensation model, offering an option where advisory fees are not tied to your rent or purchase spend. This ensures complete transparency and eliminates any actual or perceived conflicts of interest.

We succeed when you succeed. That’s why we offer transparent pricing and ensure our compensation aligns with your priorities and the value we provide. Your best interests always come first.

Option 1: Strategic Consulting

This option would be similar to an in-house, fractional real estate team (great for real estate strategy, needs analysis, operations alignment, and project or portfolio specific work not necessarily tied to a transaction).

Fee Structure: A monthly retainer fee based on the scope and time commitment of the engagement. If a commission is earned and paid from a resulting transaction, our client will receive up to 50% of any commission received.

Ideal for: Workplace strategy alignment, space needs analysis, location strategy/studies, labor analytics, and budget alignment with revenue and other expenses as related to future transaction planning or portfolio work.
Includes: Expert market research, space criteria development, and portfolio strategy, full transaction execution and support as well as: collaboration with architects, project managers, and legal teams.

Option 2: Traditional Tenant Representation & Advisory Services

No retainer or upfront compensation. We are compensated upon the completion of a transaction. Under this traditional tenant representation model, we, as the real estate advisor, act as a broker and are compensated by the landlord or seller in most situations. In the unusual event that a landlord or seller is not willing to pay RSRES as a co-broker, we will notify you before touring and discuss the payment of a market fee.

Fee Structure: RSRES seeks standard market commissions from landlords, sellers, or sublandlords.
Brokerage commissions are almost always paid by the landlord for tenant representation brokerage in leases, renewals, and subleases in the DC/MD/VA region (ranging from 4-5.5% currently in the DMV).
In a building or site purchase, standard market commissions are 3-4% of the sales price.
We will always be completely transparent with how much an owner is marketing for commissions.

Under this model, there is no consulting fee associated with the initial deliverables unless a specific third-party consultant needs to be engaged as part of the process. For example, the need for behavior science workplace expertise, architect level design, or a conceptual design prior to test-fits.

Option 3: Hybrid Structure

This option offers maximum flexibility, allowing RSRES to first consult on your real estate strategy and needs analysis, after which you can determine how and if you’d like to proceed with future transaction work and/or additional services.

Phase I: Strategic Consulting: Ideal for determining real estate strategy, needs analysis, and operations alignment or project-based analysis and real estate solutioning to get to know our team and the depth of our capabilities.
Includes: Expert market research, space criteria development, portfolio strategy, and/or workplace concept strategy as well as: collaboration with architects, project managers, and legal teams to determine the best path forward prior to engaging the market for real estate requirements.

Phase II: Your choice on how to proceed either with Traditional Brokerage or Ongoing Consulting Advisory Services. If you decide to proceed with us for a lease or purchase transaction, you may choose the compensation model that works best for your organization.

Benefits of the Hybrid Structure Option:

- Aligns incentives with client savings and favorable deal terms.
- Ensures unbiased advisory services while offering financial upside to our clients.
- Under either model for Phase II, a portion of the initial Strategic Consulting Fee paid will be credited back to you if a commission is earned and paid.
- Most beneficial for organizations and non-profits that require transaction planning, board approval or buy-in and decision support early in the process.

Commercial Real Estate Solutions & Services

Real Estate Strategy Consulting

Portfolio Optimization: Identify opportunities for consolidation, expansion, or repositioning to align with business goals and maximize ROI.
Workplace Strategy Alignment: Ensure your space supports workforce needs, productivity, and engagement.
Efficiency & Optimization: Improve space utilization and workplace efficiency to enhance productivity and reduce costs.
Hybrid Work Solutions: Develop strategies for optimal resource allocation, collaboration, and flexibility.
Right-Sizing & Technology Planning: Determine ideal space, technology, and scheduling solutions to support business objectives.
Extensive Solution Network: Access a broad range of vendors, technology partners, and service providers.

Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

Office Space Lease and Purchase

Educational Facilities

Entertainment Venues

Industrial, Warehouse, Flex

Build-to-Suits

Multifamily Conversions

Public – Private Partnerships

Coworking Consultation

ESG Risk Management

ESG Integration: We collaborate with best-in-class real estate firms to implement comprehensive ESG strategies that align with your values and business objectives.

Sustainable Workplace Design: We incorporate sustainable design principles and protocols into your workplace strategy, promoting environmental responsibility and employee well-being.

Inclusive Workplace Solutions: We create inclusive workspaces that foster diversity, equity, and belonging, ensuring all employees feel valued and supported.

Workforce Strategy Development

Solution Consultancy for Dispersed, Hybrid, Remote-First, Flexibly Together or Combination Workforces

Presenting alternatives that aligning your real estate options with the most cost effective physical and technology options, and flexibly balancing the best combination to support your unique culture

Workplace Solutions

Shaping spaces that support your diverse talent to create inclusive collaboration space for dynamic workforces.

Strategic Planning

Together we define mission aligned scenarios with qualitative and quantitative data driven outcomes to support informed decision-making for executive leadership to gain board sponsorship.

Technology Identification Options

Leveraging the industry’s leading platforms while providing flexibility for your unique team

Portfolio Solutions Ensuring your real estate strategy is consistently executed

Capital Strategies & Concept Planning

Unlocking value opportunities within your real estate portfolio and with partners to take advantage of current market opportunities.

Commercial Brokerage Services

You choose how we are compensated for Brokerage Advisory Services and Execution:

Leasing & Transaction Management – we represent occupiers of real estate, collaboration hubs, workplaces, co-working offices, churches, schools, universities, daycares, sports facilities, quasi-retail, quasi-medical in Virginia, Washington, DC and Maryland (DC Metro area and throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia)

Transaction Management -Expertly negotiating and presenting the right real estate options and opportunities while guiding you through how to make the best decisions for your workforce operations with complete transparency. We keep your projects on track for success

Sales – Purchase or Sales of office, industrial, warehouse, flex, office conversions, land or mixed-use properties

Subleasing and disposition services

ESG Consulting

ESG Consulting for Commercial Real Estate

ESG Consulting (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is vital for sustainable and ethical business practices. We want to work with companies who also believe in Doing Well by doing Good. We are a Minority Woman Owned business, SWaM certified, WBE pending. We are available as a diverse partner for brokerage and real estate consulting services.

Why ESG is Essential

Sustainability & Net Zero: Buildings significantly impact energy use and emissions. ESG consulting helps implement energy-efficient technologies and sustainable practices to reduce costs and meet environmental regulations.

Inclusion & Diversity: Diverse teams drive innovation and performance. ESG consultants promote inclusive hiring, equal opportunities, and a culture that values diverse perspectives.

Supplier Diversity: Supporting minority-owned businesses enhances economic equity and community development. ESG consulting helps establish supplier diversity programs and partnerships with minority-owned businesses.

Benefits

Enhanced Reputation: Strong ESG practices attract aligned talent and clients.

Regulatory Compliance: Stay ahead of regulations and avoid mitigatable costs or penalties from underperforming or non-compliant buildings (Example: BEPS, Building Energy Performance passthrough protection in Washington, DC).

Financial Performance: Sustainable practices lead to long-term cost savings.

Attracting Investment: ESG-focused companies attract more capital.

Risk Management: Mitigate risks related to environmental, social, and governance issues.

Rock Spring Real Estate Solutions integrates ESG principles to create sustainable, inclusive, and well-governed commercial real estate environments.

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