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This months snapshot of key submarkets

| May 4, 2012 | 0 Comments

Once again, our research staff has delivered some very useful snapshots of some important local submarkets.  Downtown Palo Alto was really where the local market recovery started a few years back– but rents there have show no growth there in over six months, despite virtually no vacancy.  This market has almost certainly topped out. Downtown [...]

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1Q 2012 update on the SF Peninsula Commercial Real Estate Market

1Q 2012 update on the SF Peninsula Commercial Real Estate Market

| April 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

We will be releasing our Market Report for 1Q 2012 shortly.  My article on the Office Market follows: It would not be realistic to expect the San Francisco Peninsula commercial real estate market to open 2012 at the same fevered pace seen during the prior year.  The local market – very much in keeping with [...]

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Where is a good place in Silicon Valley for a warehouse and manufacturing space, and what is the price range per square foot? My answer on Quora

| February 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

As a very general rule, the further South and East you go, the better.  More inventory, better pricing The Peninsula (Mtn View- north) is pretty much a non-starter for industrial space aside from smaller multi-tenant buildings.  Most recent industrial lease I did in Mtn View was at about $1.00/sf for an older building. Sunnyvale/Santa Clara-more [...]

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Facebook unfriending Menlo Park?

Facebook unfriending Menlo Park?

| February 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

When the news broke that Facebook had quietly purchased 20 acres adjacent to their new Menlo Park campus,  I commented that, given the city’s history, Menlo Park’s newest major corporate resident may find the development process a tad challenging. Facebook hopes to eventually bring nearly 10,000 employees to the existing campus and adjacent site– well [...]

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A Bifurcated Valley?

| February 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

There’s nothing too surprising any more about reports that cover the drastically bifurcated market recovery seen to date.  It’s a topic that has had my interest for quite a while now.  More than just a ‘flight to quality’, start-ups and other users chasing top employee talent have swarmed to the downtown cores of Peninsula cities [...]

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