Site Selection
Before you tour a single suite we map the trade area around every location you are considering: who lives there, how fast it is growing, what they can pay, and how many providers in your specialty already sit inside a realistic drive time. It costs nothing and you keep the analysis whether or not you ever hire us.
$0 out of pocket for most practices. The landlord pays our fee.
Send us your lease Call (210) 384-2342Every source is listed further down this page. For San Antonio and South Texas we add our own building dataset; what we track is on its own page.
What We Actually Calculate
Most site advice stops at population and median income. Those two numbers tell you a place has people with money in it, which is true of almost every corridor anyone would consider. They do not tell you whether those people already have a dentist, an orthopedist, or a veterinarian, which is the part that decides whether a new office fills its schedule.
Providers in your specialty per ten thousand residents inside a real drive time, measured against the same ratio for the metro and for comparable corridors. A corridor is not saturated because the traffic feels heavy. It is saturated when that ratio sits well above what the population underneath it supports.
The inverse question, and the more useful one. Where do population, growth and payer mix support more of your specialty than are currently there? Those are the corridors where a new office opens into demand rather than into a fight with three incumbents.
A three-mile radius drawn on a map crosses an interstate, a river and a hospital campus's parking, and pretends none of that slows a patient down. We use drive times at the hours your patients actually travel, which routinely reshapes a trade area past recognition.
For a specialist the question is not rooftops. It is which primary care practices and which hospitals feed you, where they sit, and how far a referring physician will realistically send someone. A specialist can be right about the demographics and still land on the wrong side of the referral map.
For a second or third location, how much of the new trade area your existing office already serves. Adding a site that quietly eats your own patients is the most expensive way there is to grow, and it is invisible until the second year.
A corridor that scores beautifully and has nothing available in your size range is not an answer. Every recommendation gets checked against the space that actually exists, including suites that have not been marketed yet and sublease space that is not on any listing site.
Where The Numbers Come From
You should be able to ask where any figure came from and get an answer. Here is the whole list.
What You Get
Turnaround depends on the scope. A look at one corridor is quick. A metro-wide search for a specialty with a long referral tail takes longer. Tell us the deadline and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.
Ask us to run it › San Antonio corridors, written up one at a time ›
What This Costs Your Practice
It is in the listing agreement before you walk in.
You do not save it. Their broker keeps it.
For most practices, $0 and no invoice from us.
Same fee, two ways to split it. One of them puts a negotiator in your corner. The other does not.
A few situations differ, such as owner-direct, physician-owned and sublease space. We confirm the fee in writing on every building before you tour it. Brokerage fees are negotiable and not set by law.
Common Questions
We count the providers in your specialty inside a realistic drive time, using the federal provider registry rather than a business directory, and divide by the population actually inside that drive time. Then we compare that ratio against the metro as a whole and against corridors with similar demographics. A single number means nothing on its own. The comparison is the whole point, and we show you the comparison set rather than just the verdict.
Yes, and you keep it whether or not you hire us. We do this work before an engagement because it is how we earn one, and because a practice that opens in the wrong corridor is not a client we keep. If you take the report and use another broker, that is a fair outcome and it happens. When you do hire us, the landlord typically pays the leasing fee and our side is paid from it, so most practices never write us a check at all. We confirm that arrangement in writing on every building before you tour it.
Yes, and that is the fastest version of this. We will run the trade area around that address, show you the competing practices inside it, and tell you where it sits against the alternatives you have not looked at. Sometimes the answer is that the address is right and you should go. Sometimes it is that a corridor four minutes away has half the competition for the same rent.
The person who gave it to you is paid by the landlord of the building it recommends. That does not make the numbers wrong, but it does decide which numbers appear and which corridors are missing from the comparison. No building pays for this analysis, and if one of them is ever a Partners listing we tell you in writing, so the comparison set includes the buildings that are bad for us and good for you.
Yes. San Antonio and South Texas are where our own building and practice data goes deepest and where we know the buildings, the landlords and the brokers personally. The federal and census data is national, so the method travels to Austin, Houston, Dallas or another state, where Partners' offices, Partners Healthcare Services brokers or the best local broker check the ground truth.
If that is what the numbers say, yes. We have more to gain from being right than from one lease. Telling a practice that a corridor will not carry a second location, or that renewing where they are beats every alternative, is a normal outcome of this work.
Behind The Three Of Us
We are the San Antonio team of Partners Healthcare Services, the healthcare tenant and buyer representation practice of Partners Real Estate. The practice began in 2009 as Crown Tenant Advisors in Atlanta, joined Partners in July 2026, and holds a 5.0 rating across 109 Google reviews. Its brokers are on the ground in Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Indiana, and the healthcare case studies and client quotes on this site are the practice's.
Partners was founded in 1997, reports more than 300 professionals, and has offices in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta. When your practice grows past San Antonio you keep us as the point of contact: Austin, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth through Partners' own offices, and anywhere else through the best healthcare broker in that market, run by us.
Tell us the specialty and the part of town you have in mind. We will run it and send you what we find, at no cost.
Send us your lease Call (210) 384-2342