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Truth Behind The Numbers: Vacancy Rates In Commercial Real Estate

Hughes Marino | Forbes
April 17, 2024

In 1954, Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics quickly became a standard textbook for any introductory statistics class, addressing thorny concepts such as random sampling, correlation versus causation and visual misrepresentation through scale manipulation or truncation. The book makes the case that we are all susceptible to being misled if we are not careful about the way we interpret statistics.

April HM Mini Goal – Have an Outdoor Adventure

Hughes Marino | HM Blog
April 1, 2024

One whole quarter of ‘doing what we said we would do’ for our 2024 HM Mini Goal Program is complete! Isn’t it fulfilling to have accomplished three fun goals this year? In March, our goal was to plant something, and we loved seeing your...

In Praise of San Francisco

Cameron Love | HM Blog
March 21, 2024

There’s something that happens when people start declaring the decline of a city. The negative stories pile up, each one feeding into the same narrative. San Francisco is the latest victim of this city-shaming. The idea that “the global tech industry’s center of gravity” needs to be defended against claims that it is too unsafe—or … Continued

The Next Five Years Will Be the Biggest Tenants’ Market in 35 Years

Hughes Marino | Market Reports
March 19, 2024

While this title seems like a bold assertion, everyone is waking up to the reality that the office markets around the United States are in freefall. Consider this graph that compares January 2023 availability rates of U.S. office space to today. Nearly every metro...