Despite widespread economic uncertainty throughout the world, the U.S. real estate market has experienced a major upward trajectory over recent years, surging through the Covid-19 pandemic and geopolitical events to reach its highest value in recent history. Just in May 2022 alone, U.S. housing prices were up 14.8 percent year over year, showing a clear demand for real estate all across the country.

Commercial real estate has been no exception, rising in price at an annual rate of 1.3% between April 2020 to 2021, a trend expected to continue into the coming year.

For Yasmin Tavakoli, the red-hot housing market provided the established entrepreneur the opportunity to utilize her experience in commercial real estate investing, prompting the mogul to co-found Retail Tenant, a search-engine technology platform empowering landlords to make the most out of their retail property holdings.

According to recent data from the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS), there are more than 5.5 million exclusively commercial properties throughout the United States – a number only bolstered when taking into account the retail spaces commonly found beneath residential buildings. Keenly aware of the prevalence of commercial real estate in the country – and consequently, the difficulty that comes with finding adequate occupants for these spaces – Tavakoli’s Retail Tenant helps landlords find ideal tenants for their vacant properties, with an emphasis on retail shopping centers.

Vetting potential tenants to find a desirable and fitting candidate has historically been a time-consuming process for landlords, a notion Retail Tenant looks to flip on its head by handling the continual development of its prospective client contact lists. To do so, Retail Tenant provides landlords with exactly what these potential tenants are looking for in terms of a space’s requisites and individual needs, their agents’ contact information, and basic details on the tenants’ eventual expansion plans. This allows landlords to find their perfect tenant fit in one streamlined package, disrupting the real estate industry itself at its core.

Though the idea of using a technology platform may seem out of reach for many landlords, who generally trend older than renters themselves, Retail Tenant has been meticulously constructed by Tavakoli and the team to be user-friendly and inherently easy to operate; this lets users filter by their desired pertinent metrics, including location and square footage. Retail Tenant goes on to provide important information like state-by-state property criteria, area demographics, and other vital data that can make or break a deal – an approach that lends itself to the platform’s mission to bring transparency to modern real estate.

Eager to continue developing Retail Tenant for the good of the commercial real estate industry at large, Tavakoli and the Retail Tenant team are all ears for constructive feedback, looking to evolve the platform to the highest form of functionality to benefit its users.

As the U.S. housing market continues to surge, Tavakoli’s Retail Tenant intends to stay at the forefront of democratizing commercial real estate deals, putting power back into the landlord’s hands. To get started on a free 7-day trial, visit Retail Tenant’s website to see how you can get started with the innovative search engine today.