Corporate Real Estate Advisors
At Hughes Marino we offer commercial real estate expertise with no conflict of interest, and specialize in helping companies develop strategic solutions for all of their real estate needs.
Our integrated team of brokers and subject matter experts collaborate in unison to provide companies with smart, sound and creative commercial real estate solutions that enable our clients to thrive. From leasing, buying and building facilities, including office, industrial, lab and manufacturing spaces to name a few, our comprehensive services encompass tenant and buyer advisory services, sale leasebacks, purchase and sale scenarios, multi-market national representation, complete real estate outsourcing, consulting and advisory services, program, project and construction management, workplace strategy, planning and design, as well as global portfolio management, lease administration and audit services.
Tenant and Buyer Commercial Real Estate Advisory Services
As one of the most premier commercial real estate firms, we’ve helped some of the nation’s most admired companies grow their business with creative and strategic commercial real estate solutions, and we can put our experience to work for you.
Tenant & Buyer
Services
Now is the perfect time to evaluate your real estate. Our expert team provides office, industrial and life science tenants and buyers everything you need to ensure the most optimal real estate outcome.
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Program, Project & Construction Management
We help you build the perfect facility to accomplish your goals.
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Portfolio Lease Administration &
Advisory Services
We provide confidence and peace of mind that every detail is being handled by experts, while saving you money by identifying errors and overcharges in your leases.
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Hughes Marino is proud to offer our full suite
of services nationwide and around the world.
Why Hughes Marino
Confidential
The details of your real estate transaction are no one else’s business. Confidentiality is a must at every turn, and we'll make sure it stays that way.
No Conflict
Unlike most brokerage firms, we specialize in helping companies who need commercial real estate to operate their business. Our clients appreciate our one stop, vertically integrated service lines and proprietary product offerings focused on the needs of businesses.
Specialization
Our team is comprised of real estate experts, attorneys, construction managers, architects, designers, financial analysts, lease auditors, lease administrators and operations management to create an outstanding outcome for our clients.
Respected
Our bespoke team is comprised of the most accredited experts in their field, including licensed brokers, MBAs, MSREs, JDs, financial analysts, architects, designers and LEED project managers. And we’re honored to be recognized among some of the nation’s very best companies.
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Horses, Wolves, Scouts and Seals
By John Jarvis on May 22, 2025
It is my pleasure to serve on the Board of Advisors for YMCA Overnight Camps, where we oversee three great year-round resident camps: Camp Surf, Camp Marston and Raintree Ranch. It was in a conversation about Raintree Ranch, a camp where kids learn to ride and care for horses, where I learned something interesting. A dominant stallion will typically lead its herd from the back of the group. I knew this was true about wolf packs, and I’ve always thought it was cool and that it makes a lot of sense in the right circumstance. And what is the right circumstance to lead from the back? Let’s dig in.
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The Inland Empire Industrial Real Estate Collapse—A Tenants’ Market in the Making
By Hughes Marino on May 15, 2025
If you are a business owner or executive team member operating an industrial distribution or manufacturing company in the Inland Empire, you’re probably still picking off the scar tissue from the run-up of industrial rents from 2020 through 2022. The outbreak of Covid in...
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From Boom to Doom: The Biotech Wet Lab Meltdown—San Diego Market Report
By Hughes Marino on May 13, 2025
From 2020-2022, the biotech industry was the standout of the U.S. capital markets, thanks to the vital role the industry played in the Covid-19 pandemic response and the unprecedented capital investment that flowed into the industry for the diagnosis and treatment of all disease conditions. With that fresh capital, biotech companies leased millions of square feet of biotech wet lab space from 2020-2022 in an unprecedented surge that real estate developers and their landlord brokers thought would last for many years to come. In contrast back in 2023, Hughes Marino began sounding the alarms that a perfect storm was on the horizon for the San Diego region’s biotech wet lab market, that would affect all U.S. wet lab markets. That perfect storm would be comprised of 1) changes in the capital markets that would negatively affect demand, 2) growing wet lab sublease inventory that would unexpectedly increase supply and limit landlords’ pricing power and 3) record levels of excessive new wet lab construction and office-to-lab conversions that would exacerbate the supply problem. We forecasted that these factors would collectively lead to a historic wet lab supply and demand imbalance, which is exactly what has occurred.
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Capital is Tight and Strategy Matters More Than Ever
By Owen Rice, Riley Hillis on May 13, 2025
As a firm that specializes in representing tenants and owner/users of commercial real estate, we spend every day protecting the interests of companies. That singular focus gives us a real edge, especially in moments like this when the market is shifting quickly.
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Testimonials
We believe if you represent both plaintiffs and defendants there’s an automatic conflict, whether it be real or perceived. So it only made sense to choose Hughes Marino, a company that represents tenants only, to handle our lease negotiations in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and New York. With over 150 lawyers and 275 support staff, we have very specific space and technology requirements and Hughes Marino has the expertise to manage our leasehold improvements. We’ve certainly benefited from their tenant-only focus and full range of services. They are tireless in their efforts.
Former managing partner of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins (now Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd) Robbins Gellar
We have a long-term relationship with the Hughes Marino team that goes back 17 years. They’ve handled many projects for us, including our corporate headquarters in Carmel Valley, our San Diego Service Center in Kearny Mesa, and numerous branch locations throughout the county, including our main downtown office. They’re very professional, and they have good, solid market information. You’re not concerned that they’re also representing one of the landlords you are negotiating with because they only do tenant representation, which for us is important.
Senior Vice President and Manager of the Corporate Real Estate Facilities Department California Bank & Trust
I have worked with the Hughes Marino team for over ten years, their knowledge of the San Diego office space market is extraordinary. They know all the players, and because they do so many deals and because of their depth of understanding of the San Diego market, I think Hughes Marino is able to help every tenant get the best deal possible.
Managing Partner, Knobbe Martens
If you are looking for a professional commercial broker that will always keep your best interest in front and work to ensure that you and your company’s needs are met every step of the way, then you should hire Hughes Marino. They think outside the box, ask detailed questions, and went beyond our expectations. I strongly advise anyone looking for a commercial lease to contact Hughes Marino.
COO of Feeding America
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Committed to the Community
We believe that it is our duty as a local business to give back to the community that nurtures us. That's why we are proud to support the many nonprofit organizations that make our nation a great place to live and work.
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