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The greenness of office buildings is becoming a more important issue as it contributes to the sustainability of the building sector. Moreover, by leasing greener offices, tenants can be benefitted by the improved indoor environmental quality and better corporate branding attributed to its positive image. These benefits, however, often come with relatively expensive prices that tenants need to pay. Nevertheless, the sources of the price premium have not been fully explored especially from the aspect of tenants’ leasing behaviours. To address this, a questionnaire survey was conducted. Then, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were performed to identify the underlying dimensions of tenants’ leasing behaviours and to ensure their reliability and validity. The results show that tenants’ office leasing behaviours must be explained by several dimensions. Also, it is found that the obtained results have a sufficient reliability and validity. These allow proceeding to the next stage of the research to explain if and to what extent the greenness level of tenants’ offices and the rents they pay are influenced by various motivational variables based on the established analytical model.