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What Working With a Landlord’s Brokerage Firm Really Gets You
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For over a century, commercial real estate brokers have had their familiar “For Lease” signs on buildings, marketing vacant space for building owners. Even deeper in their service offering to landlords, these firms manage the buildings, help with financing, co-invest in the real estate (and often own the real estate themselves) and advise property owners…
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When Kim Salzer, CEO of Gifts.com tasked Hughes Marino with helping her find new space for her LA-based team, she came to us with a very specific vision. “We wanted a space hip enough to fit the sensibilities of our company, and inspiring enough to keep our incredible team happy and comfortable at work,” Kim said.
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Last week I served as a panelist at the InterFace California Commercial Real Estate Trends Conference held in Downtown Los Angeles. The overall perspective of the panel was that the economic outlook for Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego is favorable, although there are some unintended consequences of tax policy and recently passed regulations that could pose big problems…
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Hughes Marino is proud to announce that, once again, Jason Hughes, our president & CEO, took home the top honor at The Irvine Company’s 2014 Broker of The Year awards earlier this month. Jason was named the number one broker overall, having represented 25 different companies in their lease transactions (a new Irvine Company record!) during the fiscal year which…
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A real estate lease is often one of the largest recurring, fixed expenses for any business. Adding insult to injury, most leases provide for the rent to increase every year so that, even if the starting rent was reasonable, it often ends up being above market by the end of the lease term.
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Earlier this month, our own Jeffrey Shepard put his time to incredible use in the name of charity (and a bit of fun). As a member of the CAP Coasters Team, Jeff and 11 other avid runners and fundraisers completed the 2014 So Cal Ragnar Relay. The race, which spanned 200 miles, began in Huntington Beach and finished in downtown…
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Hughes Marino is pleased to announce that CEO Jason Hughes has been nominated for the Orange County Business Journal’s 2014 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards. This nomination is an accomplishment that we are especially proud of, as our Orange County office has only been open for a little over a year. But make no mistake, Hughes Marino OC is growing rapidly,…
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Two of the newest members of Hughes Marino’s Orange County team are already making news. Jeffrey Shepard, Principal and Senior Vice President, and Mike Lewis, Vice President, popped up in OC Metro’s Movers & Shakers column earlier this month. See Jeff’s entry here, and Mike’s here.
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It is with tremendous honor that we welcome broker Jeffrey Shepard to the Hughes Marino team as Principal and Senior Vice President. Jeff will be based in our Irvine office, and will continue to serve the Orange County region as he has for nearly 29 years. We have known Jeff and worked with him in a referral capacity for two…
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Earlier this month I hosted a presentation with representatives from Gensler, the global design and architecture firm, focusing on workplace trends and the ways corporate interiors are being used to drive productivity and culture. Joining me on the panel were Kevin Heinly, Managing Director of Gensler’s San Diego Office, and Claudia Salazer, Workplace Design Director for Gensler.