KEYZ Commercial Real Estate
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We split, we answer the
phone, and we don't
touch your client.

Co-brokerage, referrals and outside-broker cooperation across Southern California. If you have a tenant, a buyer or a listing that needs a partner on the ground here, this is the page that tells you how we work, before you spend a call finding out.
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Brokers who need
Southern California
covered properly.

Out-of-state brokers with a client expanding into LA. National tenant rep teams who need someone to physically walk a building in Ontario on Thursday. Residential agents whose long-time client just asked about buying a warehouse. Local brokers with a listing that needs a co-op partner who will actually market it.
The common problem is the same: you need someone here, you need them to do the work, and you need to know your client is still your client when it’s over.
  • Out-of-state and out-of-market brokers
  • National tenant rep and corporate services teams
  • Residential agents with a commercial referral
  • Local brokers seeking a co-op partner on a listing
  • Business brokers whose deal includes real estate
  • Attorneys, CPAs and advisors referring clients
The terms

Agreed in writing before you commit a client

Co-brokerage

A split agreed before
we show anything

On both lease and sale transactions where both sides bring genuine work. Proposed on your first call and documented in a co-brokerage agreement before anyone tours a property. You will never be negotiating it after an offer is in.

Referral

Referral fees,
agreed up front

Hand off the client, we do the work, you get paid at closing. Rate agreed and signed before we contact your client, then paid broker-to-broker at close of escrow.

Protection

Your client stays
your client

We do not market to, prospect or solicit a client you introduce. Not during the deal, not after it closes. It’s in the agreement, not just the sales pitch.

Listings

Co-op on our inventory

Our listings are offered with a cooperating commission. Register your prospect and we confirm it in writing at the time, so it is never disputed afterwards.

Response

One business day

You will get an answer, including “no,
that requirement isn’t realistic at that
number.” Unanswered calls are how
deals die.

Licensing

California DRE licensed

Full brokerage licensing details on our
licensing page. We’ll provide W-9 and
licence verification for your
compliance file on request.

Deliberate omission: no split or referral percentage is published on this page. Terms are promised in writing before showings, and quoted privately per deal. If leadership decides to publish rates, take legal advice first: publicly posted standard commission structures carry antitrust exposure and remove your room to negotiate deal by deal.

What we bring to a co-op

The reason to send it here instead
of somewhere else

01

Marketing that isn't four phone photos

Professional photography, video, Matterport 3D tours, drone footage and a dedicated website per property. Syndicated to CoStar, LoopNet and Crexi with paid placement.

02

Boots on the ground

Someone physically at the building,
same week. Photos of the loading
area you actually asked about, and an
honest read on the block.

03

Proprietary owner data

Our own research database of owners
across the region, beyond what CoStar
shows. Useful when your client’s requirement doesn’t exist in the listed
inventory.

04

In-house lending

KEYZ Capital handles conventional,
SBA 504 and 7(a), bridge and refinance. Your buyer’s financing problem stops being your problem.

05

Business brokerage

If the property has an operating business attached, we can broker both sides rather than sending your client to a second firm.

06

Region-wide coverage

LA, Orange County, South OC, Long Beach and the South Bay, Inland Empire and San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial, the Desert and Central California.

How a co-op runs

Five steps, no ambiguity

01

You send the requirement or register the prospect

Use the form below or email the desk directly. Include the client name for registration purposes.

02

We confirm in writing

Registration confirmed, co-brokerage or referral agreement issued, and an honest read on whether the requirement is achievable.

03

Agreement signed before showings

Split, protection period and scope agreed before anyone tours anything. No handshake deals that turn into disputes at escrow.

04

We do the local work, you stay in the loop

Tours, comps, negotiation support and document coordination. You’re copied on everything unless you’d rather not be.

05

Paid at close of escrow

Broker-to-broker, on the standard schedule, with the closing statement attached.

Current inventory

Available now

A live sample of what we’re representing.
Full inventory on the listings page.

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State Road Flex, a concrete tilt-up industrial and flex building in Cerritos, California, available for lease from KEYZ Commercial
FLEX

State Road Flex

Southern California flex space.

View details
Limonite Plaza, a multi-tenant retail and office neighbourhood centre in Jurupa Valley, California, available for lease from KEYZ Commercial
Retail

Limonite Plaza

Retail plaza.

View details
Santa Fe Springs Marketplace, inline retail space in a Food 4 Less anchored centre in Whittier, California, available for lease from KEYZ Commercial
Retail

Santa Fe Springs Marketplace

Retail marketplace.

View details
What we won't do

The short list matters more than the long one.

Most co-brokerage relationships break for the same handful of reasons. Here’s our position on each of them, in writing, before you commit a client to us.
  • We won't solicit or market to your client, during or after
  • We won't renegotiate the split after an offer is accepted
  • We won't cut you out of communication with your own client
  • We won't take a listing we can't properly market
  • We won't tell your client a requirement is doable when it isn't
  • We won't leave you chasing us for a status update
  • We won't pitch our business brokerage to a client you sent us for real estate
Questions we get asked

Straight answers

What's the split?

We quote it on the first call, before anyone tours anything, and it goes in the co-brokerage agreement. We do not publish a fixed rate, because the right number depends on who is doing what: a full co-op where you stay in the deal is priced differently from a straight referral where you hand off and step back. What we will commit to publicly is that you will know the number before you commit a client, and it will not change afterwards.

Then the first question isn’t whether to switch, it’s whether the current arrangement is working. Ask for two numbers: how many enquiries the space has had in the last ninety days, and how many of those were toured. If nobody can produce them, the space isn’t being marketed, it’s being listed.

If you’re under an exclusive listing agreement we won’t approach you about that building until it expires, and we’ll tell you the date. If you’re not, or if it’s close, we’ll show you what we’d do differently and you can decide. No obligation and no pressure.

Yes, and at the start rather than after nine months of silence. An agent who agrees with whatever number you say is an agent planning to be unemployed in six months.

You’ll get a written rent opinion with the reasoning behind it: what comparable space nearby actually leased for, not what it was asked for, and what the concessions and TI packages in those deals looked like. If your number is optimistic you’ll hear it, with the evidence. If it’s low, you’ll hear that too, because five years of below-market income also damages the value of the building. No obligation and no listing agreement required.

Same machine, different outcome. Full media, an offering memorandum, outreach to our database and the investment brokerage community, and a stated offer deadline so buyers bid against each other rather than against you.

Start with a Broker Opinion of Value: our number and the reasoning that produced it, weighing recent sales, the income the property throws off, replacement cost and what buyers are currently paying in your submarket. Free and no obligation.

One thing we’ll raise before you commit: if you’re selling to free up cash rather than to exit, a refinance or cash-out may get you there while you keep the asset and the income. We’ll show you both sets of numbers. Losing a listing to a refinance is a good outcome if it was the right one for you.

Before a lease is signed, not after. We ask for the entity and who’s actually behind it, two to three years of tax returns and recent bank statements, a credit report on the entity and the guarantor, trade and prior-landlord references, and the business plan for the space.

Then we look at the things that don’t show up on a credit report: whether the use is permitted and what the permitting timeline looks like, whether the rent is a sane percentage of what the business realistically does, whether the guaranty is personal or corporate and worth anything if it’s corporate, and how much of your capital the build-out asks you to put at risk.

You see the file and the recommendation, including our reservations. You sign the lease, so you make the call.

Then it’s a financing problem being mistaken for a leasing problem. The TI allowance is often what decides which building a tenant picks, and losing a deal over it is expensive twice: you lose the tenant, and the space goes back on the market stale.

KEYZ Capital, our capital division, arranges construction, bridge and refinance debt, so that conversation happens here rather than being handed off. We’ll also model whether the improvement is worth funding at all — some build-outs raise what the building is worth to the next tenant, and some are a write-off the day that tenant leaves. Those are different decisions and should be priced differently in the deal.

You’ll know why long before it becomes a surprise. You get the enquiry and tour numbers whether they’re good or not, and where an offer sits against comparable deals nearby, so a slow month gets diagnosed instead of explained away.

There are only a few reasons space sits: nobody knows it’s available, the price is wrong, the capital isn’t there for the build-out, or the market has genuinely moved. Each of those has a different fix, and we’ll tell you which one you have. If the answer is the price, we’ll say so and recommend the reset. If it’s the market and there’s nothing to be done, we’ll say that too — and we’ll show you what the sale or refinance numbers look like instead.

You’ll know why long before it becomes a surprise. You get the enquiry and tour numbers whether they’re good or not, and where an offer sits against comparable deals nearby, so a slow month gets diagnosed instead of explained away.

There are only a few reasons space sits: nobody knows it’s available, the price is wrong, the capital isn’t there for the build-out, or the market has genuinely moved. Each of those has a different fix, and we’ll tell you which one you have. If the answer is the price, we’ll say so and recommend the reset. If it’s the market and there’s nothing to be done, we’ll say that too — and we’ll show you what the sale or refinance numbers look like instead.

You’ll know why long before it becomes a surprise. You get the enquiry and tour numbers whether they’re good or not, and where an offer sits against comparable deals nearby, so a slow month gets diagnosed instead of explained away.

There are only a few reasons space sits: nobody knows it’s available, the price is wrong, the capital isn’t there for the build-out, or the market has genuinely moved. Each of those has a different fix, and we’ll tell you which one you have. If the answer is the price, we’ll say so and recommend the reset. If it’s the market and there’s nothing to be done, we’ll say that too — and we’ll show you what the sale or refinance numbers look like instead.

Proof

A difficult probate sale, described
by someone who was in it

5 out of 5 star rating
Thanks to Jason Keyz and his group, he managed to fill one of my commercial lease vacancies in several days and he obtained a strong multi year lease agreement. […] I recently partnered with Jason In a difficult Commercial probate trust sale with a tenant occupied buyer. He continually made himself available, while handling things on the sellers behalf to save them time. This transaction was in a Trust Fund, involving several relatives and could have been very volatile. However, Jason managed all parties with finesses, respect and tremendous ease all the way to the end.

Greg N. · Yelp, 5 stars · 5 November 2018

Probate trust

Transaction type

Several days

To fill a vacancy

Multi-year

Lease secured
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