Author: Jason Hughes
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How We Strive to Become a Category of One Company
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When we founded Hughes Marino 14 years ago, we had already spent 20+ years in the commercial real estate industry and recognized that there had to be a better way to help companies with their space. This realization led us to another question: If we could reimagine our own industry, what would it look like?…
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A Wall Street Journal article last month authored by Ben Cohen about the Golden State Warriors struck a chord with me. The premise was that the data-driven owners of the team felt there was an opportunity to exploit the three-point line as a market inefficiency. Then they built a team around doing just that.
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Nearly two years ago, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to require real estate brokers and their salespeople to disclose when they are acting as dual agents, representing both sides in a commercial real estate transaction, and what duties they owe clients.
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Tech companies have influenced our lives tremendously in the last decade. Think Google. Uber. Facebook. Apple. They’ve also had an enormous influence in the past 10 years or so on office design. They’ve also had an enormous influence in the past 10 years or so on office design. (Beginning with a love for bare brick walls and exposed duct ceilings.)
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The tech industry has done amazing things for humanity and its contributions are ubiquitous in virtually everything we do. It comes as no surprise that the tech industry also forced the old-school commercial office space world to re-evaluate its boring, vanilla, box-like past. With the help of creative architects and planners, office space is striking a balance between work and…
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Say you’re a life sciences company looking for a new location. You approach a commercial real estate agent, who gives the impression he’s working on your behalf. But unbeknownst to you, the broker was also working for the landlord of the building you’re interested in. What’s more, the broker actually had a minority interest in the building. And he never…
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A new California law that went into effect on Jan. 1 requires commercial real estate agents and brokers to provide clients with written disclosures regarding whom the agents represent, potential conflicts of interest and fiduciary duties.
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California commercial-property brokers are coming under the magnifying glass in California.
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Commercial real estate brokers will soon be required to disclose potential conflicts of interest to parties in any deal they handle.
