How to Use sublease in a Sentence

sublease

1 of 2 noun
Definition of subleasenext
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  • The deal takes a bit of sublease space of the Houston market.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Baty said the surge in sublease office space in North Texas appears to have plateaued.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The building has been removed from the long list of North Texas offices on the sublease market.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And then, of course, there are the other co-working competitors and the glut of sublease space out there.
    — Curbed, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the sublease space is snapped up by companies looking for a quick move.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Most of that project is rented to transportation firm Uber, which has put much of the space on the market for sublease.
    — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The solution: Put the surplus workspace up for sublease.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Area-wide, sublease space has dropped to 8.8 million square feet in the Houston market.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Pruitt said the amount of sublease office space hitting the market shouldn’t be a long-term problem.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 29 July 2020
  • The new lease follows a short-term sublease signed by the company in 2017 in the nine-story building.
    — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The School Board approved a sublease agreement for the new fashion school on Wednesday.
    — Kyra Gurney, miamiherald, 18 Jan. 2018
  • About 9 million square feet of excess office space is up for sublease in North Texas.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Combined with sublease space, that jumps to 22 percent.
    — Nancy Sarnoff, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2020
  • More space was available to sublease than in either of the two prior years, but growth in sublease space was slowing, the firm said.
    — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • After going through the tragic death of a child in 2017, the family moved from their apartment to a house through a sublease.
    — Carrie Teegardin, ajc, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The amount of sublease space on the market is falling and so are concessions like the ones at 483 Tenth, at least in trophy and new buildings.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Otonomy put a portion of its space up for sublease last year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
  • And the warehouse sublease totals are about half what’s available in the office market.
    — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Much of that was driven by a surge in sublease space, which reached 22 million square feet, the real estate services firm said.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The Meltzer-Cohens signed a two-year sublease that runs until mid-January 2023.
    — Curbed, 5 Aug. 2022
  • That does not include another 9.85 million square feet of sublease offices up for grabs in the area.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The sublease space spans the third and fourth floors and is available in November, according to a marketing brochure.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Matheny said more than 40% of the sublease offices available in D-FW had terms as long as three years.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In April, the company made its office available for sublease, CoStar said.
    — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • At least one of the buildings is on the market for sublease, according to CoStar, a real estate research firm.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2023
  • Large blocks of office space for sublease could also add to the competition.
    — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • Over the last few years, WeWork leased four properties from Neumann to use for its subleases.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And tech companies have increased their surplus sublease space around the country by more than 40%.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The same court that revoked the telescope’s building permit is also pondering the sublease for its site.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • Throw in millions more square feet of sublease office space on the market and vacancy rates are headed toward 27%.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
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sublease

2 of 2 verb
  • She subleased her apartment to a student for the summer.
  • Nickel Plate Arts would likely hold the lease and sublease the space to artists.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Rouch Architects LLC has subleased the two top floors of the building, about 5,196 square feet.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Google is also in talks to sublease space from Salesforce, two sources said.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
  • Leach said that the group is talking to the landlord about possibly subleasing the space to others.
    — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • More space was available to sublease than in either of the two prior years, but growth in sublease space was slowing, the firm said.
    — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • For two years Levine had subleased part of her suite, becoming a distant fixture in her life.
    — Nathan J. Fish, azcentral, 3 June 2018
  • The other nine tracts were purchased by the state of Alaska, which would have to sublease them to an oil company for any work to proceed.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • People sublease rooms in apartments to help cover their own rent.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • Vir will sublease space from Dropbox, which has shifted to remote work.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • While Tavistock hopes to sublease the land, reworked language in the agreement made clear the public would have access to it.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 July 2018
  • In a third transaction, American subleased a gate to Delta Air Lines.
    — Bart Jansen and Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Facebook, which has a big presence in the region, will sublease some of its office space in Seattle and Bellevue.
    — Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Lasser said one trend that could be growing is for a tenant to lease and pay for a space, but will sublease that space to a different tenant.
    — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The firm initially planned to sublease the building and eventually buy it.
    — Esther Fung, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Since the pandemic and the rise of remote working, Akamai decided to sublease a portion of its space.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The redevelopment agency then subleased the space to the museum at no charge.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Real estate brokers expect that the Uber will seek to sublease much of its surplus office space in Deep Ellum.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 9 July 2021
  • The topic of needing some sort of office space by July or August had come up, leading to a hunt for what might be available to sublease downtown.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2021
  • By comparison, the Jackson County Airport in Jackson grants firms up to 40-year leases at the airport, as well as the right to sublease their space.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The company sought to sublease some of its space before the pandemic shutdowns, and later put its construction on hold because of the virus.
    — Sarah Freishtat, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The apartment unit was being subleased to a couple, who had recently been evicted, the sergeant continued.
    — Nicole Hensley, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
  • Companies have dumped more than 11 million square feet of excess offices on the market in the D-FW area seeking to sublease to other tenants.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Meta, which earlier this year agreed to be the anchor of a new skyscraper under construction in the Texas capital, is now trying to sublease that space.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Instead of moving in, the couple subleased the units at a profit in violation of their leases, according to the complaint.
    — Olivia Zaleski, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Downtown had the most sublease space, with 1.6 million square feet on the market, followed by the Energy Corridor with 1.1 million square feet.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 5 July 2019
  • The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Amazon is working to sublease at least 10 million square feet of excess warehouse space.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • The move to sublease its Deep Ellum offices is the second change Uber has made this year for its planned Dallas regional operation.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Other tenants who are still locked in to longer-term leases have been subleasing their unneeded space, sometimes at a 50% discount off the main leasing rate, Morris said.
    — Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In September, the state had filed a lawsuit alleging that Apex had stopped paying rent for the past year while subleasing the property out to at least five other businesses.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023

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