HM Blog
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7 Proven Property Disposition Strategies for Commercial Real Estate
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Effective property disposition as a tenant is critical for maximizing commercial real estate value and mitigating business expenses. Whether you’re looking to optimize your portfolio, raise capital or exit underperforming assets, selecting the right space disposition strategy can significantly impact your bottom line. Property disposition for tenants in commercial real estate refers to the process…
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Commercial lease negotiations can make or break your business’s financial health. Without proper expertise, tenants often fall victim to hidden fees, unfavorable terms and costly oversights that drain resources for years. The average commercial lease contains dozens of complex clauses that can trigger unexpected expenses, from uncapped rent escalations to ambiguous maintenance responsibilities. By partnering […]
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Breaking a commercial lease represents one of the most complex strategic decisions facing businesses today, particularly as 2025 had brought significant legislative changes emphasizing enhanced tenant rights across multiple jurisdictions. Unlike residential leases, commercial lease termination involves intricate legal, financial and operational considerations that can dramatically impact your company’s bottom line and future growth prospects. […]
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Understanding Commercial Subleasing Commercial subleasing is when a tenant (primary tenant aka sublandlord or sublessor) leases all or part of their leased space to another party (subtenant or sublessee), creating a sublease agreement while maintaining responsibility for the original lease. In this arrangement, the primary tenant remains liable to the landlord under the original lease, […]
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Five years post-Covid, the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) office market is showing signs of stabilization as the shift to remote and hybrid work (2-4 days in-office) has largely settled. Most tenants have already adjusted their footprints as pre-Covid leases expired, allowing companies to right-size. The leasing activity in Q1 and Q2 of this year reflects this, […]
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At Hughes Marino, our award-winning culture and team performance thrives on continuous improvement, knowing that EVERY detail matters.
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Commercial real estate is an inefficient marketplace. It is also a bit of a relic, unchanged in the last hundred years and largely dominated by landlords and their brokers, which has resulted in an industry where long-term, loyal, repeat customers are repeatedly expected to pay a premium. I call it a loyalty premium. The mechanism for this is the renewal…
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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…
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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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At Hughes Marino, we take inspiration a step further with our “HM-isms”—phrases that we’ve cultivated over the past 14 years from our teammates and guest speakers, and from influences around the world. Designed to inspire, these HM-isms motivate and provide valuable life lessons across all aspects of our days, both professionally and personally. As a team that is constantly on…
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How can we identify what is wasteful of our time and resources? This seems to be the pertinent question that is top of mind for every business leader, especially today, as efficiency and costs are under the microscope. As a company leader who also happens to work within commercial real estate, I have conversations surrounding this question with other executives…