HM Blog
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National Industrial Markets Enter 2025 With a Pounding
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While national headlines talk about the battering commercial real estate office space is taking due to hybrid and remote working post-Covid, industrial real estate nationally is entering a second year of taking a hit in most major metro markets around the United States. Caused primarily by extreme over-development in the last three years thinking that…
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In the 2010 movie “Knight and Day” starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, one of the most memorable scenes is when Tom Cruise’s character tells Cameron Diaz’s character that her life expectancy is much higher with him than without him. Cruise uses his hand and sharply cuts the air in front of her at her waist level saying “without me”…
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Recently I had the honor of serving on a CLE panel for the Orange County Bar Association alongside fellow attorney David Wensley, managing partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson, and my colleague at Hughes Marino, commercial real estate broker Tucker Hughes. We were invited to speak to the audience of 50+ attorneys regarding various issues in the current – and…
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There is a new law in California as of January 1, 2015. Known as SB 1171, the law requires that commercial real estate agents disclose to their clients the nature of their agency relationship. A similar law was already in place for residential agency, but now the same protections apply for commercial agency.
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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.