Industry Contributors
Why the Real Estate Industrial Sector Maintains Strength
By ASB Real Estate Investments The Federal Reserve’s inflation fighting policy of raising interest rates has pushed real estate yield requirements higher and...
Asian Supermarkets: Creating Their Own Strategic Niche & Well Positioned to Succeed Long Term
By Don Maclellan, Managing Partner at Faris Lee Investments A Community Pillar Asian supermarkets provide their community with a place to shop and...
Advice to Landlords Holding Letters of Credit Issued by Silicon Valley Bank, and Landlords Where Silicon Valley Bank is a Tenant
(EDITORIAL DISCLOSURE: Buchalter did not pay for the promotion of this content. It was selected for the value of its editorial contribution to...
PFAS, Due Diligence and Real Estate Development
By David L. Sawicki, PG, CPG The Latest Environmental Concern and How it May Affect the Process. INTRODUCTION The term “forever chemicals” refers...
Uncertainty or Opportunity?
By John Cumbelich As the sun begins to set on the withered stalk of another eventful year in commercial real estate, uncertainty prevails...
Flexible Warehousing Garners New Interest
By John Fioramonti, Kidder Mathews Research The COVID-19 pandemic ignited significant social changes that have impacted commercial real estate in differing ways. For...
In Corporate Real Estate, Our Truth no Longer Exists
Written by Gabe Burke. Edited by Sharon Simonson. In corporate real estate, we have awakened to a new reality as we have discovered that...
Opinion: Recession or Re-Set?
By John Cumbelich Recently the Wall Street Journal published an article observing that if the US economy is in a recession, “it’s a very...
Tenant Improvements that Convert Office Vacancies to Long-Term Occupancy
Office Design Trends for the New Workplace By James Simeo, FAIA, LEED AP At a recent CRE symposium on the Los Angeles market,...
Recent California Court Ruling Signals Victory for Advocates of Mixed-Use Neighborhoods and Greater Housing Density 
By Spencer Kallick and Sean Becker of Allen Matkins On December 17, 2021, the Los Angeles Superior Court issued a victory to the...
UC Berkeley Case Shows Why Comprehensive Reform Badly Needed to End CEQA Abuse
By Chris Carr The California Supreme Court last week declined to stay a lower court order in a case involving a housing and...
Retail’s New COVID Rules
By John Cumbelich The Ides of March was celebrated in ancient Rome on March 15th each year, as the deadline for settling debts. As the commercial real...
