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- January 29, 2015
A lot can happen in a year. Our fourth quarter 2014 Phoenix Office Market Report came out last week and it looks noticeably different than our Q4 2013 report. Below is a link to the report and here’s a brief summary: The metropolitan Phoenix office market absorbed 620,000 net square feet (SF) in Q4 to push …
- January 21, 2015
When density meets demand, creativity pops up. What the??? New York is planning to create a whole neighborhood for 65,000 people OVER an active rail yard. See below for some cool renderings and a moving graphic that is worth watching. To summarize: –They will build 300 concrete and steel caissons that will be inserted 40-80 feet into the ground. –Then …
- January 21, 2015
I have spent almost 100,000 hours of my life committed to leasing commercial office space. After completing 3,500 commercial lease transactions and 30 years in the business, I decided to write the follow up to my first book How to Win in Commercial Real Estate Investing and have now written a book on commercial office space leasing. The …
My Third Book is Now Available: The Art of Commercial Real Estate Leasing Read More »
- January 7, 2015
Today, I want to have a discussion about competition. Peter Thiel’s, founder of PayPal, article below got me thinking about basic lessons I learned in college 30 years ago and have experienced every single day since. The commercial brokerage business is brutal. Eighty percent of people who come into our business are gone within five years. Those of us …
- December 30, 2014
In the beginning of 2014, I ran a five-part series on the new gigantic and expensive corporate headquarters that are being designed and built by the leading tech companies in the world. As we close the year, the NYT ran an updated article (we have included it below) on most of the headquarters we researched. They also had a …
Another Look at the Corporate HQ for Tech Companies Read More »
- December 24, 2014
Open office design, benching, and cool space layout have been topics we have discussed over the past few years. Below is a very interesting article on the start of the open office space movement and why it failed miserably. Today, we are seeing open office layouts in over 70 percent of new space designs. That does not mean the C-Suite …
Cozy in Your Cubicle? An Office Design Alternative May Improve Efficiency Read More »
- December 18, 2014
My favorite economist who tracks the national economy and the US office market is Peter Linneman. He produced the graph below which shows job loss and gain during the recession. This graph demonstrates exactly why I follow the jobs market so closely and why most office markets in the US have been slow to recover. Surprisingly, there are just a few …
Employment Growth – Employer Payroll Survey vs. Household Survey Read More »
- December 12, 2014
Crowdfunding has become a hot market for all kinds of ideas, such as the potato salad guy who raised over $55,000 for his recipe (Click here to learn more). The commercial real estate market is not immune to this new trend. With the passage of a new law, there has been a 334% increase of crowdfundings in commercial real estate properties year …
One Commercial Real Estate Tech Industry to Watch Close for the Good AND the Bad Read More »
- December 4, 2014
Every now and then I see cool graphs that grab my attention. Site Selection magazine ran the below graphs showing the top industries and the top projects of the year (2013). I found the following insights: –Where companies are headquartered and the size of each company are very interesting. There is some clustering, but not always. –Transportation is driving the …
- November 26, 2014
Once again, Jason Gay usurps any business narrative for this week. His rules for Thanksgiving have become a tradition for us to send out and this year is no exception. See below for all his rules, but I loved these three in particular: —#13–While I love SEC football, this is great. – “No, SEC family thanksgiving touch football is …
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