Author: Jason Hughes
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The Quiet Power of Gratitude
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By Jason Hughes In the fast-paced life cycle of business, we spend much of our time focused on what’s next: the next client, the next milestone, the next strategic move. That forward momentum is healthy. It drives performance and pushes us to improve. But without pausing to reflect and practice gratitude, it’s easy to become…
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Despite the Covid-19 pandemic taking a catastrophic toll on many U.S.-based businesses, Hughes Marino bolstered its reach by adding a Denver office to its fleet of locations, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, Seattle, San Francisco, East Bay and New York. “We added the Denver office in the fourth quarter of last year, with the grand opening of Denver…
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I got a call from a reporter asking about my individual position, as well as our company’s position, on a recent California draft Senate Bill (SB 939) that would provide potential rental relief for companies who suffered catastrophic loss of business due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reporter assumed I would of course support it given my stance on only…
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The story of the “canary in the coal mine” is an advanced warning of danger. The metaphor originates from when miners used to carry caged canaries while at work; if the air in the mine became toxic, the canary would die before levels of gas became hazardous to humans. Many of our clients consider Hughes Marino the canary—an alert system…
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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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Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law new broker disclosure rules bringing commercial real estate into line with what is already required in residential real estate.
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The desire to protect tenants from disadvantages due to lack of transparency is what spurredJason Hughes, president and CEO of Hughes Marino, to push for the disclosure bill SB 1171. As GlobeSt.com reported last week, the bill, first proposed by Hughes and sponsored by State Senator Ben Hueso, was signed by Governor Jerry Brown on August 15. Effective January 1,…
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Jason Hughes, president and CEO of California commercial real estate brokerage company Hughes Marino, has helped promote a measure that resulted in a new law requiring commercial real estate broker disclosure.
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SB 1171 become law this week, sponsored by state Sen Ben Hueso, D-San Diego. (Can’t they start coming up with more creative names for bills?) Hughes Marino CEO Jason Hughes, a locally based tenant rep specialist instrumental in drafting the bill, tells us what it means for commercial real estate brokers in California.
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Commercial real estate brokers will soon be required to disclose potential conflicts of interest to parties in any deal they handle.
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Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Friday legislation that makes it much more difficult for commercial real estate brokers to represent both sides of a sales or a leasing transaction.