Retail centers, shopping centers, office, flex, industrial and mixed-use — managed by the designated broker who signs every nonresidential file, as Arizona law requires. Statewide from Scottsdale, with Los Angeles coverage through our family’s Westside firm.
Barré Properties is a property-management-first brokerage, and commercial is one of our two primary management practices alongside residential. That is a deliberate structure rather than a marketing line: Arizona regulates nonresidential brokerage differently, commercial leases are governed almost entirely by their own text, and the accounting — CAM, escalations, recoveries, transaction privilege tax — has nothing in common with collecting a single rent check.
We manage the owner-operated end of the market: neighborhood and strip centers, single-tenant net-leased pads, office and flex buildings, small industrial, medical office, commercial condominium regimes, and the retail component of mixed-use projects. Owners get the designated broker directly, monthly reporting a lender can read, and routine maintenance billed at the vendor’s price.
Bought a center, or inherited a rent roll you have never fully read? Start with the lease file.
Request a ProposalCommercial ownership rewards operators who sweat the details: lease abstraction, CAM budgeting and reconciliation, critical-date discipline, tenant relations, preventive maintenance, and clean monthly reporting. That is the work. For larger portfolios, multifamily and distressed assets, see our portfolio division.
Commercial property in Arizona is governed by a different body of law than residential, and most of the protections owners assume they have simply do not exist here. That is not a detail — it is the reason commercial management is a separate practice.
A.R.S. § 32-2175 requires the designated broker to personally review and sign every nonresidential transaction file. You are not handed to an account coordinator, because the law does not allow it.
A.R.S. § 33-1308 excludes nonresidential tenancies from the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. The lease is very nearly the entire law of your relationship with the tenant — which is why abstraction and drafting carry so much weight.
A.R.S. § 33-361 permits reentry once a commercial tenant is five days in arrears and gives the landlord a lien on tenant property. Those are strong tools, and a self-help lockout while a tenant is still in possession is how owners turn a collection problem into a lawsuit.
If the lease does not define CAM, taxes and insurance as additional rent, those amounts are difficult to recover in an eviction action. It is one clause, and it decides whether a year of CAM is collectible.
Arizona’s 2025 residential rental TPT repeal did not touch commercial leasing. Commercial rent remains taxable at the state, county and city level, and the lease should make that tax recoverable rather than an owner expense.
Accessible parking counts, slopes, striping and signage are among the most frequently litigated items on Arizona retail property. We survey them early, because fixing them costs far less than answering a demand letter.
Every lease abstracted, every date diaried — expirations, renewal and expansion options, notice windows, escalations, CAM reconciliation deadlines and insurance expirations. A lapsed option is the most expensive thing that can quietly happen to a commercial asset.
Annual budgets, monthly estimates billed with rent, base-year and expense-stop calculations, and reconciliation delivered on the deadline the lease sets. Miss that deadline and the right to bill the shortfall can be gone.
Monthly operating statements, rent roll, delinquency and CAM position in a format a lender or CPA reads without a phone call. Client funds held in broker trust accounts under Arizona Department of Real Estate rules and reconciled monthly.
Vacancy marketing, broker cooperation, tenant qualification, guarantor review and negotiation support on AIR CRE forms — the Arizona commercial standard, not residential paperwork adapted to a shopping center.
Transaction privilege tax registration and filing on commercial rent, tenant and vendor insurance certificate tracking, vendor licensing verification, life-safety scheduling, accessible-parking review and municipal compliance.
Preventive maintenance programs, vendor bidding and oversight, inspections and capital project coordination. Routine maintenance invoices pass through at the vendor’s price.
The designated broker reviews the property and the objectives personally. Arizona requires his signature on every nonresidential file, so the conversation starts with him rather than reaching him later.
Leases abstracted, CAM history audited, service contracts and insurance certificates collected, accessible parking reviewed, and any reciprocal easement or operating agreement read alongside the leases.
Critical-date calendar built, CAM budget prepared, trust accounting opened, transaction privilege tax registration confirmed, and tenant notices and payment channels moved over.
Rent and CAM collected, maintenance dispatched and supervised, delinquency worked early, and monthly reporting delivered that you and your lender can actually read.
Commercial fees are quoted per property, in writing, after we have seen the rent roll and the lease file — a single multi-tenant center and a single-tenant net-leased pad are not the same job. Leasing and renewal compensation is stated in the management agreement rather than discovered later. Routine maintenance invoices pass through at the vendor’s price, and Arizona’s R4-28-1101 requires prior written acknowledgment from you before we could be compensated for any goods or service beyond that — so nothing of that kind happens without your signature first.
Managing commercial property elsewhere in Arizona? We work statewide — tell us where the property is.
Have a different question? Call 480-269-1621 — you will reach the broker.
Send the basics — property type, approximate square footage, tenant count and city. You will hear back from the broker, not a coordinator. Or call 480-269-1621.