How Occupancy Sensors Can Increase Your Real Estate ROI
By Caroline Quick, Senior Principal at T3 AdvisorsThanks to advances in workplace technology, we can gather data to create office spaces that support your employees’ working habits—with the potential to save millions of dollars...
Female Starlets in the Bay Area Culinary Community
By Jen Chan, White Tiger Condo Conversion
It’s no secret that restaurants are a challenging, cutthroat business, especially in the Bay Area, where the food scene is hypercompetitive and constantly evolving....
New Rules for Home Buying
By Kelly McDonald
With the United States economy still struggling to bounce back from the difficult times of the last few years, the dream of homeownership for many people seems...
McNellis: Playing Small Ball
Making it in Real Estate Part Three: Playing Small Ball
By John McNellis
“I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.” A winning...
McNellis: Your Real Estate Empire-Build it or Buy it?
By John McNellis
What’s your strategy in allocating capital between buying finished projects and doing development deals, what percentage of each do you buy, someone asked me at a ULI...
Housing Bubble 2 Hits Rough Spot in California
by Wolf Richter
Tripped up by “eroding affordability and persistently low inventory.”
Pending home sales in California, based on signed contracts, fell 2.6% in October compared to a year ago, the...
McNellis: Back to School
Real Estate Jargon Demystified
By John McNellis
Whether a lawyer, architect, engineer or broker, a young professional in real estate often hears expressions—some slang, others simply arcane—that neither the finest education...
Salesforce: Here’s What Workplaces Will be Like Going Forward
By Brent Hyder, President & Chief People Officer of Salesforce
The past year has brought about rapid and remarkable transformation that has forever changed us.
At Salesforce, our culture is cultivated in...
McNellis: For the Class of 2016
By John McNellis
It appears my invitation to address Stanford’s graduating class was rejected by my spam filter. It also blocked commencement speech invitations from an underwater welding school and...
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...