Author: Jason Hughes
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Six Takeaways from James Clear’s Atomic Habits for Getting 1% Better Daily
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As a business leader, I am constantly on the hunt for inspirational reads, as well as ways to improve efficiency and spark innovation. A few years ago, I came across a book that I knew would be both a professional and personal game changer, with concepts that I have added to my daily routines to…
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In what could be the beginning of a stunning change in the real estate industry, the California Supreme Court upheld the Appellate Court ruling against a dual agent real estate company while also encouraging the State Legislature to protect consumers by directly addressing the “significant concerns inherent in dual agency,” which should be prohibited due to its fundamental conflict of…
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A case scheduled to come before the California Supreme Court Sept. 7 is set to re-examine the fiduciary responsibilities borne by real estate brokers who engage in “dual agency” representation — the situation in which buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants are represented by brokers within the same real estate agency or brokerage, a commonplace practice in both residential and commercial…
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A Wall Street Journal article last month authored by Ben Cohen about the Golden State Warriors struck a chord with me. The premise was that the data-driven owners of the team felt there was an opportunity to exploit the three-point line as a market inefficiency. Then they built a team around doing just that.
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Nearly two years ago, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to require real estate brokers and their salespeople to disclose when they are acting as dual agents, representing both sides in a commercial real estate transaction, and what duties they owe clients.
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While apartments and hotels have gone up downtown at a comfortable pace, it remains an open question whether there will be enough new office buildings to meet downtown boosters’ hopes for a vibrant commercial center, especially in East Village’s 35-block I.D.E.A. District.
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Tech companies have influenced our lives tremendously in the last decade. Think Google. Uber. Facebook. Apple. They’ve also had an enormous influence in the past 10 years or so on office design. They’ve also had an enormous influence in the past 10 years or so on office design. (Beginning with a love for bare brick walls and exposed duct ceilings.)
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The tech industry has done amazing things for humanity and its contributions are ubiquitous in virtually everything we do. It comes as no surprise that the tech industry also forced the old-school commercial office space world to re-evaluate its boring, vanilla, box-like past. With the help of creative architects and planners, office space is striking a balance between work and…
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Dan Khabie got exactly what he was looking for when he moved his digital marketing firm from the Gaslamp into 18,000 square feet of space in East Village’s DiamondView Tower in 2011.
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Hughes Marino, a San Diego-based commercial real estate services provider, has opened two new offices in Northern California and announced an expansion and relocation of one of its Los Angeles offices.
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Say you’re a life sciences company looking for a new location. You approach a commercial real estate agent, who gives the impression he’s working on your behalf. But unbeknownst to you, the broker was also working for the landlord of the building you’re interested in. What’s more, the broker actually had a minority interest in the building. And he never…