Author: Zane Keith
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The Art of the Real Estate Deal
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I’m a corporate real estate broker with award-winning real estate advisory firm, Hughes Marino. We help business leaders make great real estate decisions for their growing teams. I’m also an artist, which, as it turns out, informs my approach to leading high value projects for my clients. You see, when I create art, I always…
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As automation and computerized information systems make many secretarial and other back-office positions obsolete, large office work areas filled with rows of secretaries, typists and clerks are fast becoming a thing of the past — more typical of “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” era than today’s high-tech office environment. But despite the predictions by some workforce experts, high…
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Not only has the Internet revolution required all of us to learn new concepts, words, phrases and ways of doing things, it has made some terms and concepts in commercial real estate obsolete. Whatever you call it — the “Internet industry,” “e-commerce,” or “dotcom” businesses, — the phenomenon has become a change agent in our society unlike anything since the…
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If there was any question of whether the perils of office tenant abuse was an appropriate topic for a column in this newspaper, it’s been answered multiple times over since that article appeared several weeks ago. Quite frankly, my chief regret is that I didn’t bring up the topic sooner, given the number of letters and phone calls I’ve received…
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As the story goes, Henry Ford on occasion would fire an executive by changing the lock and blotting out the name on the hapless employee’s office door while he was at lunch. While this practice hardly epitomizes decency or proper employee relations, it does hearken back to something that has been on the decline in recent years: the private office.…
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A primer on the role of the customer in a free market might seem more appropriate in a Marketing 101 class than as the topic of a newspaper column, but there is a problem that has reached critical proportions in San Diego’s office leasing market. Many building owners and property managers have forgotten or chosen to ignore the very reason…
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For the past several months, most San Diego businesses have been taking appropriate measures to be sure their information and other technology-oriented systems convert over to the new millennium. And, rightly so. However, for reasons that have nothing to do with the advent of the new century, those who lease office space in some of the more prime locations in…
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When it comes to brokering office space deals Downtown, nobody does more of it than Jason Hughes. Sipping a Louie & Mousie’s cappuccino milk shake, 30-year-old Jason Hughes discusses life as the leading player in San Diego’s classiest office real estate market: Downtown. Not only in the last 18 months has Hughes leased nearly 400,000 square feet of office space,…