HM Blog
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2026 Commercial Real Estate Lease Buyout Forecast: Top Trends Shaping Company Decisions
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As 2026 unfolds, the commercial real estate landscape is undergoing one of its most strategic shifts in a decade. Companies reassessing their real estate portfolios are turning to buyouts as tools for flexibility, capital optimization and risk realignment. A commercial real estate buyout, where a party acquires an ownership stake or assumes a lease position…
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It should come as no surprise that the internet is one of the most widely used tools for searching for real estate. Companies like Zillow have secured real estate’s foothold on internet search patterns and consumers are usually better off for it. What is less understood is how companies use the internet to aid them in their corporate real estate…
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Since 2008 the conversations taking place in economics, politics, and media have primarily focused on the global recession and, more specifically, dismal unemployment rates. For this reason it can be difficult to think about signs pointing to an approaching workforce deficit as an actual concern. However, organizations from Stanford University to Kelly Services all agree that the data suggest highly…
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Commercial real estate has rebounded in most parts of San Diego County. So much so that it has been on a tear in the Class A office space arena during the last 18 months, with rents spiking between 25-40%.
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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 in the purchasing and selling…
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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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Our business is built on relationships, and quality relationships are built on trust. So how do we earn someone’s trust? Not by bartering favors. A transactional relationship is based on an expectation that a favor will be returned in kind. Quid pro quo. I scratch your back and you scratch mine. In this model, if I don’t think you are…
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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.