San Francisco Commercial Real Estate Blog

As a commercial real estate broker this is my third down cycle that I have experienced. In each of the others the pattern to recovery was the same. People would lose their jobs, could not find new jobs and decided to start their own businesses to survive. The point of entry for many is to go into...

When I entered the commercial real estate business back in 1984, I entered the market just as it was collapsing. My very first offer that I made for a client was at $52.00 at a time when the office vacancy rates were in the low single digits. In one year the market crashed and not only rates tumb...