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The options await; take your pick. Leases are categorized into five major types: Gross, net, triple net, ground or land, and shopping center. A conventional lease is deemed a gross lease. That is, the lessor (CRE owner) is accountable for practically all payments, including taxes and insurance costs. The tenant is only liable for the fixed rent sum. On the other hand, some lessees pay a net lease: the tenant, not the property owner, is responsible for the costs to a certain extent. The costs handed to a lessee are subdivided into the "single-net" category, "double-net", and more popularly - the "triple-net" leases. In a "triple-net" lease, the tenant pays practically all of the expenses coupled with the property. This would include insurance premiums, taxes, and commercial operating charges. Shopping center leases are those in which a tenant pays a base rate in concurrence with the square footage of the retail property. The landlord may, perhaps, have the right to relocate the lessee. Alternatively, with a land or ground lease, the tenant leases the area and begins construction on the estate. Quite often, the improvements made by the lessee on the commercial property transfer into the landowner's possession after the lease expires. Nonetheless, land and ground leases are long-term agreements.