Author: Hughes Marino
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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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Medical office tenants are one of the most underrepresented category of commercial real estate tenant in the United States, often representing themselves, working with the landlord directly or the landlord’s broker as a “dual agent.” Working with leases once every 5-10 years, busily managing their medical practice, and having the feeling of few choices and […]
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Five and a half years post-Covid, and the trauma of remote and hybrid working on the national office market has become fully developed and realized. Across the country, record high inventories of office sublease space came on the market, and in many major U.S. cities, availability rates have increased by more than 50% above their […]
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How We Got Here If you are a business owner or executive team member operating a San Diego County industrial distribution or manufacturing company, you’re probably still reeling from the run-up of industrial rents from 2020 through 2023. The outbreak of Covid in the second quarter of 2020 created a run on industrial real estate […]
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Five years post-Covid and it appears that the bulk of the damage has already been done to the San Diego regional office market. Companies adjusted to their new normal by implementing hybrid and remote schedules, and most tenant leases already expired where companies have had the opportunity to reset their footprint accordingly. Despite this, there’s […]
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There’s no question that the market has shifted, and the numbers prove it. The Mission Valley office market ended 2024 with a 25.6% availability rate, and year to date (YTD) is currently 22.5%—a notable 3% drop in just seven months, but it’s not the recovery it appears to be. Two key events account for this […]
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At Hughes Marino, our award-winning culture and team performance thrives on continuous improvement, knowing that EVERY detail matters. This includes identifying things, both big and small, that may not be running as smoothly as they could be and having the courage to speak up when challenges might arise. As part two of our HM-ism series, we wanted to focus on…
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If you are a business owner or executive team member operating an industrial distribution or manufacturing company in the Inland Empire, you’re probably still picking off the scar tissue from the run-up of industrial rents from 2020 through 2022. The outbreak of Covid in second quarter of 2020 created a run on industrial real estate in the fall of 2020.…