Lease Buyouts

Dish Network’s Wireless Exit Strategy and Its Impact on Lease Valuation

For the past several years, Dish Network’s entry into the wireless carrier business has been a perplexing saga of big…

3 months ago

Steel in the Air’s 2024 Cell Tower Industry Predictions

As we do every year, we like to make predictions about the year ahead.  (It’s near the end of March,…

2 years ago

The Early Days of the Cell Tower Lease Buyout Business

During my early days in the wireless industry, while employed by a tower company, I worked alongside a site acquisition…

3 years ago

Cell Tower Lease Revenue Share Hijinks

A client of ours has a ground lease with one of the Big three public tower companies. Instead of rent,…

4 years ago

Verizon Finds Landowners Don’t Like ROFR Clauses- So They Rebrand Them.

The wireless carriers are actively seeking to add right-of-first-refusal clauses (ROFR) to their new and extended cell site lease agreements. …

4 years ago

Our Wireless Forecasts For 2020

As we do every year around this time, we provide our predictions for what we expect to happen in the…

6 years ago

Seem Like Offers to Buy or Extend Your Cell Tower Lease Are Getting Better?

Coupled with low cost of capital and their recent conversions to REITs, tower companies have every incentive to convert leases…

6 years ago

Verizon’s Tricky-Tricky Cell Site Lease Assignment Language

We applaud Verizon for their interest in preventing their leases from being sold to third parties like lease buyout companies.  It…

8 years ago

Everest Infrastructure Partners: The Phoenix of Tristar Investors?

HISTORY OF TRISTAR INVESTORS Back in 2008-2013, a company called Tristar Investors was attempting to acquire ground leases under American…

9 years ago