McNellis: Bankrupt Values
By John McNellis
Fresh & Easy, a supermarket chain of 200 stores, filed for bankruptcy last week. Unlike most bankrupts, F&E has no third party debts, no fraying lines of...
McNellis Shines Sunlight on Solar
By John McNellis
Solar power and fishing share the same sparkle: Like fish in the sea, sunlight is free. But just as a handful of “free” salmon caught outside the...
McNellis: Lawyers’ Labors Lost
By John McNellis
Lawyers are losing ground, perhaps faster than many of us realize. According to CBRE Group Inc.’s most recent San Francisco office leasing survey, law firms gave up...
McNellis: Partying Like It’s 1999
By John McNellis
Instacart, a San Francisco start-up, announced it had received $8.5 million in institutional funding last week. The company is a same-day home-delivery service for groceries. Given that...
McNellis: Pounded by Junk
By John McNellis
Retailer Restoration Hardware sent me a glossy, shrink-wrapped brochure—junk mail—so heavy I had to weigh it. Addressed to "Occupant,” my postal nickname, the package tipped the scales...
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....
Healthcare Growth Spurt
Demographics, technology and new thinking are changing health care real estate
THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ‘Q’ - THE REGISTRY’S PRINT PUBLICATION - IN APRIL 2013
By Dorothy Lloyd
In the excitement of...
McNellis: Desperately Chasing Yield
By John McNellis
To paraphrase a vulgar aphorism, self-delusions are like opinions—everybody has one. Some have many. Self-delusions are sometimes tragic—consider the starving anorexic who considers herself fat. Occasionally they...
Calif. Contracts No Longer Set in Stone
By Scott D. Rogers and Theodore K. Klaassen
A new California Supreme Court ruling involving the terms of a real estate loan has reversed the settled law of the last...
McNellis: A Delight of Developers
By John McNellis
One of the more amusing ways the Brits keep their societal distinctions crisp is through the upper class’s use of outlandishly imaginative group names for the animal...