San Antonio · Relocation
Moving a practice is two negotiations, not one: getting out of where you are and getting into where you are going. Both are negotiable.
Check your lease free Talk to usMost relocations start because something stopped working: the space is too small, the parking fails at peak, the building changed hands, or the renewal number arrived and it was absurd. Whatever started it, the work is the same. Price the real alternatives, then decide.
The old lease does not end because you found somewhere better. Holdover penalties, restoration obligations, and remaining term can turn a good move into an expensive one. We read the existing lease first, because what it says about your exit determines how much room you have in the new one.
Within the same trade area, most practices keep the large majority of their patients. That is the leverage: a landlord who believes you can move is negotiating against a real alternative, and whether you actually move or use the pricing to fix the renewal, the work pays for itself.
Not asking rates from a listing site. What the space will actually total once operating expenses, build-out, and free rent are accounted for, side by side with staying put.
Remaining term, restoration and surrender obligations, holdover rate, and whether the landlord would take an assignment or sublease instead of a fight.
Overlapping the two leases costs money; a gap costs more. The commencement dates are negotiable on both sides, and they should be negotiated together.
What the new space needs, who pays for it, and how many days you will actually be closed. Closed days are the real cost of a move and they belong in the comparison.
Common Questions
It depends almost entirely on distance. A move of a few minutes within the same trade area typically retains most of a patient base; crossing a highway or a school district boundary has more effect than the mileage suggests. We look at where your patients actually come from before recommending a radius.
Sometimes, and more often than people assume. Landlords with a waiting list, a buyer, or a redevelopment plan can have their own reasons to want the space back. It costs nothing to have the lease read and the landlord's situation checked.
That is a legitimate and common outcome, and we will tell you honestly when staying is the better deal even though a relocation would pay us more.
Nothing out of pocket. The landlord at the new building pays the fee.
Part Of A National Healthcare Practice
In July 2026 Partners Real Estate added Crown Tenant Advisors, an Atlanta firm that has represented only healthcare tenants and buyers since 2009, and launched Partners Healthcare Services: a practice built specifically for medical, dental, and veterinary clients. We are the San Antonio and South Texas arm of it.
That matters when your practice grows past one market. Partners was founded in 1997, has more than 300 professionals, and serves 55 U.S. markets from offices in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, and Nashville. The healthcare team is licensed across Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama.
And where we do not have an office, we do not hand you to a junior broker in a branch. We bring in the best broker in that market, whatever firm they work for, and run the assignment with them. One relationship covers your second location, whether it is across 1604 or across the country.
Send us the current lease. We will price what staying and going actually cost, side by side.
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