Change Management and Workplace Design
By Winfield S. Roney
What are employees’ greatest fears about change management?
The biggest fear here is the word “change.” Let’s face it, no one likes change. I wish we had...
Can I use my IRA to Buy Real Estate?
By Bruce Ferry
A common question from clients, or often times from people at dinner parties, is “Can I use my IRA money to buy real estate?” The easy answer...
Best Laid Plans Derailed: When Your City Decides to Adopt a Zoning Moratorium
By Amara Morrison
It’s every developer’s worst nightmare. Having invested significant resources in planning and design and submitting a project application to the governing local agency for project approval, the...
Primer on Workplace Amenities
How to Leverage Your Competitive Edge And Meet the Needs of a Changing Workforce
By Robin Weckesser
Using the workplace as a tool to attract and retain talent while enhancing the...
McNellis: The “NTM”
Making it in Real Estate (Part Sixteen): The “NTM”
By John McNellis
Properly constructed, primers should be sequenced in terms of importance, the first chapter containing the writer’s best advice, the...
Power to the People: How Tech Is Making Buildings Better for Occupants
This article also appears in The VIEW, the quarterly publication jointly curated by the three Bay Area chapters of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW)—CREW San Francisco, CREW East Bay,...
Spiegel: Volatile Insurance Pricing Touching New Development
By Joan Spiegel
The San Francisco Bay Area is perhaps the most active development market in the country today, with the construction of multiple large corporate headquarters and too many...
From Food Trucks to Fine Dining: A How-To Guide for Finding the Right Location
By Valerie Concello, Ronin Commercial Real Estate
Eating is a competitive sport in the Bay Area. We’re adventuresome, and we often go to Olympian efforts to find the most trendy, newest,...
McNellis on Real Estate: Safe As Milk
By John McNellis
Two old guys are sunning themselves on a Miami park bench, the first bragging about the $5 million his insurance company paid him after his building burned....
McNellis: Murder on the Retail Express?
By John McNellis
Putting the black in Black Friday, the Wall Street Journal found almost no pulse in traditional retail last Friday, declaring that shoppers were instead flocking to the...
