A Market Role Reversal
The success of today’s market created an inverted relationship between those providing and those purchasing services.
THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ‘Q’ – THE REGISTRY’S PRINT PUBLICATION – IN JULY 2015
By Adam...
McNellis: In Praise of Inefficiency
By John McNellis
A lender on one of our projects wrote last week, demanding we post an $800,000 letter of credit to further secure its loan because the credit rating...
Affordable Housing: Death by Entitlement
By W. Charles Perry
“Affordable Housing” has now joined the ranks of “negative income” and “unbiased opinion” as a world-class oxymoron in the California vernacular. In 2016, our fearless leaders...
Day for Night: Tech Crown of the City
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,...
Non-News Flash: Things are Booming
By Gary Marsh
San Jose and Silicon Valley are booming, as evidenced by hotel occupancy and nightly rates (Part I) in downtown San Jose’s premium hotels, as well as the...
City Officials Need to Be Proactive To Save San Francisco Retail Businesses
8 Ways The City Can Help Give Retailers a Fighting Chance
By Hans Hansson
If the pandemic and now the riots won’t kill the city’s retail, the weight of San Francisco’s bureaucracy...
Rising Leaders: Where New CRE Professionals Come to Thrive
By Kristina Owyoung Vinson, Pankow Builders and Amanda Bates, Kilroy Realty Corporation
This article will also appear in The VIEW, the quarterly newsletter of Commercial Real Estate Women San Francisco (CREW SF)....
McNellis: California’s Housing Crisis is a High Class Problem
By John McNellis
There are problems and then there are high-class problems. Being unemployed is a problem. Getting hit with a huge tax bill is a high-class problem. Not qualifying...
McNellis: Do As I Say, Not As I Do
By John McNellis
Our last column ended with questions: Why would a seller ever permit a listing broker to keep 100 percent of a sales commission? Why let a broker...
McNellis on Amazon’s Global Designs
By John McNellis
John Goodman pitched his new series, Alpha House, on The Daily Show last week. Ordinarily, a talk show guest selling his wares is about as newsworthy as...
