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National Industrial Markets Enter 2025 With a Pounding
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While national headlines talk about the battering commercial real estate office space is taking due to hybrid and remote working post-Covid, industrial real estate nationally is entering a second year of taking a hit in most major metro markets around the United States. Caused primarily by extreme over-development in the last three years thinking that…
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As the COVID-19 vaccine is more readily available to the population by each and every day, and as more states begin to reopen, ‘the world is beginning to get back to a new normal. With that new normal, one conversation comes to the forefront for businesses across the country and around the world: when should our teams return to the…
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This prolonged work-from-home, physical distancing experience has been hard. I think we all need to acknowledge that. Undoubtedly there is a spectrum, from hard to harder to hardest, and I believe we all fall somewhere on that continuum. And now that case counts are declining and vaccinations are increasing there is growing dialogue about when we will return to work,…
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When the business community begins to open back up this year, many business owners and executive teams are going to look around at all of their excess space remaining from reductions in force and team members working from home post-Covid and wonder what to do about it. With the business community considering how to rebuild their organizations, there will be anemic demand…
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Hughes Marino, a national flagship brand for providing commercial real estate services exclusively for tenants and buyers, has announced the ongoing expansion of its corporate footprint with the opening of a new office located in Denver, CO. Leading Hughes Marino’s Denver expansion are Lindsay Brown and Billy Byrne, both formerly senior level brokers from JLL. Both joined JLL as…
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As the pandemic rages on, so does the war for talent. The hard truth is that many businesses will not survive the pandemic. However, for the survivors, coming out strong may mean leveraging their current condition. While everyone is talking about furloughs and layoffs, a number of savvy CEOs are quietly hunting for talent. At the end of September, the…
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To understand how Proposition 15 would affect property taxes for commercial real estate, one must first understand how property taxes are assessed today. California commercial and residential property taxes are limited by Proposition 13, whereby property tax is fixed at 1% of the original purchase price, with annual increases thereafter capped at a maximum of 2% per year. Prior to…
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The year was 1965 when Art Gensler along with his wife and an associate founded the architectural firm in his name to specialize in corporate interiors. Gensler has since become a global powerhouse and a thought leader in the field of office design. Each year the firm comes out with an annual report, and with each annual report we seem…
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As states begin to reopen, companies across the country and around the world are faced with a new dilemma: how do we make our teams feel safe when returning to work? While the situation is constantly evolving, here are seven practices for businesses to help their teams feel safe, welcomed and happy to emerge from their homes and return to…
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Public speaking wasn’t my thing. I just didn’t see myself as a talking head, standing on stage, pontificating. So throughout last year and earlier this year I decided to try and improve my on-stage presentation skills with a talk I developed titled “The Role of Real Estate in Organizational Culture.” I have now given this talk to the Society of…
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When I was an economics major at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I remember my first introduction to the concept of risk and return. A simple graph presented in Econ 101 represented the potential for increasing returns commensurate with increasing risk, up and to the right as far as your nerves can handle it. And down to the left,…
