Industry Contributors & Editorial
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
McNellis: Rosy Predictions for the New Year
By John McNellis Just as there are few atheists in foxholes, true pessimists are rare among developers. A portrait of a famous developer...
McNellis: Abusing Power
By John McNellis Just as historians still question the precise date the Romans became the Italians, developers are by no means in agreement...
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...
La Eace: San Francisco Housing Rents Climbing Faster Than Most Know
By Rob La Eace As of late, it seems the only things hotter than our home sales market is our rental market—and of...
McNellis: On Private Equity and Real Estate
By John McNellis “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime,” Honore de Balzac, the French novelist, supposedly claimed. While this may be...
