How are commercial real estate and lease disputes resolved through mediation?

Commercial real estate disputes — including disagreements over purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases, financing, and the rights of parties in a distressed property — are regularly mediated. These matters are document- and value-intensive, and the parties often have a continuing relationship, such as a landlord and a long-term commercial tenant, that both would prefer to preserve. Mediation allows them to work through the specifics — rent, term, build-out obligations, or the disposition of a property — with a neutral, and to reach practical arrangements such as a restructured lease or a negotiated exit that a court is not well positioned to craft. It is typically faster and less costly than litigating a complex commercial property dispute.