Rooftop leases, cell tower leases, and easements, negotiated with the carriers and tower companies on the other side of the table.
Wireless carriers and tower companies lease building rooftops, ground space, and easement rights to place the antennas and equipment their networks depend on. For a property owner, these agreements can produce decades of reliable income. They can also encumber the property for just as long, so the terms deserve the same scrutiny as any other long-term real estate deal.
Premier Law represents property owners, associations, and developers in wireless infrastructure transactions. Our telecom industry background means we know how carriers and tower companies structure these deals internally, where their walk-away points really are, and which "standard" terms are actually negotiable.
Rooftops
Rooftop antenna leases let a carrier mount antennas and equipment on your building in exchange for monthly rent. The economics are attractive, but rooftop deals raise issues that ground leases do not: structural loading, roof warranty preservation, access for maintenance, interference with building systems, and coordination with roof replacement cycles.
We negotiate rent and escalators alongside the operational terms that protect the building: defined equipment areas, engineering review rights, restoration obligations, and relocation rights when the roof needs work.
Towers
Cell tower ground leases commit a parcel of land to a tower for decades, commonly 25 years or more once renewal options are counted. Rent, escalators, and revenue sharing on subtenant colocations drive the value; termination rights, expansion rights, and access easements drive the risk.
Tower companies negotiate these leases every day. Most landowners negotiate one in a lifetime. We close that gap, and we also advise owners fielding lease buyout and easement purchase offers on existing towers.
Carriers and tower companies price sites on network value: coverage gaps, zoning scarcity, and colocation potential. We evaluate offers against those drivers rather than against the first number on the page.
Easements
Owners of existing tower sites are regularly approached with offers to buy the lease or convert it into a perpetual easement for a lump sum. These offers trade a stream of future rent for cash today, and they permanently encumber the property, surviving sale and passing to future owners.
Whether a buyout makes sense depends on the offer price against the discounted value of remaining rent, your plans for the property, and the fine print of what rights the purchaser acquires. We review the economics and the instrument itself before you sign away a permanent interest.
First offers are rarely best offers. Have it reviewed before you respond.
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