CORPORATE OFFICE PERSPECTIVES | AUGUST 1, 2015
The San Francisco Bay Area market continues to sizzle along, with San Francisco, the Peninsula and Silicon Valley leading the way. Oakland is humming with overflow requirements leaving San Francisco...
View ArticleSF office rents increases…again…
CompStak reports that San Francisco office rents were up 6.6% over the previous six months to $65.29 per annual square foot, and Class B office rents increased 12% over the same period to $59.40 per...
View ArticleSan Francisco Office Cap Rates
According to CBRE published at The Registry, September 8, 2015, San Francisco Class A office building sales are averaging $663 per square foot, while cap rates, which hit 8.5% in 2009 before sinking to...
View ArticleBay Area may loose Millennials?
49% of Baby Boomers are confident they can move up in their housing in the San Francisco Bay Area (I thought these slightly older folks were downsizing?), 38% of Gen Xers had the same confidence, but...
View ArticleContra Costa County Bar Association
Jeff Weil, October 16, 2015 Referred Resources: WinAIR Redline Forms Steiner v. Thexton. California Supreme Court Decision Provides Framework for Real Property Purchase Agreements in California How a...
View ArticleThe Warriors’ purchase
The Warriors purchase of the 12-acre San Francisco Mission Bay site includes a one billion dollar 18,000 seat Warriors Stadium, 580,000 sf of lab and office, 100,000 sf of retail and a 5.5 acre public...
View ArticleCORPORATE OFFICE PERSPECTIVES | DECEMBER 1, 2015
The right wing may in part be complaining about the economy, too many taxes, too many benefits, while the left wing bemoan insufficient social projects … meanwhile, the labor department just announced...
View Article‘net-zero’ buildings?
“In the San Francisco Bay Area, they can’t build net-zero buildings fast enough and they are being leased for more than market value.” (Site Selection, November 2015) I am not sure I agree as out here,...
View ArticleCORPORATE OFFICE PERSPECTIVES | FEBRUARY 1, 2015
As I write this newsletter in mid-January, the stock market has just fallen more than 1,000 points just during the first week of the new year, the price of oil at unbelievable low prices, interest...
View ArticleSan Francisco Office Rents Eclipse Manhattan’s for First Time in History
“A surging tech economy, some of the highest rates of leasing and pre-leasing ever recorded, a pipeline of under-construction projects so robust it’s near bursting, and an effective unemployment rate...
View Articleoffice leasing statistics and more
Yahoo is laying off 1,700 employees, Autodesk announced 900 layoffs, the stock market is down 2,000 points, and even a recent SF Registry headlines reads “CBRE: Leading Indicators for San Francisco...
View Articlea real estate guru predictions for 2016
Ken Rosen, a real estate guru, in a January 21, 2016 forecast presentation predicted increasing job growth, less unemployment and strong sales of homes and cars. Negative factors include China’s...
View ArticleCORPORATE OFFICE PERSPECTIVES | APRIL 1, 2015
With the stock market down a few thousand points, big banks taking billions in write-offs on oil-related loans, China’s economy slowing down and uncertainty in the U.S. political arena, we could be...
View ArticleGoogle keeps on expanding in the SF Bay Area
Google keeps on expanding in the San Francisco Bay Area, with its 407,000 sf life science lease in South San Francisco a few weeks ago and more recently purchasing 600,000 sf of office buildings in...
View ArticleSpeech at Leadership Contra Costa 2016 Graduation Ceremonies
Speech was given on May 12, 2016 at Leadership Contra Costa 2016 Graduation Ceremonies, Walnut Creek by Jeffrey S. Weil, Executive Vice President, Colliers International. Linda, Marcie, Jay and...
View ArticleCORPORATE OFFICE PERSPECTIVES | AUGUST 1, 2016
Same old, same old, the San Francisco office market is still on fire, but maybe slightly diminished in intensity, subleases are up, unicorns far and few between, huge takedowns of space are not as...
View ArticleTwitter’s 183,000 SF office sublease
Is Twitter’s new 183,000 square foot San Francisco HQ office sublease just a blip in the market or a sign that frothy times may soon be a thing of the past? If another tech firm grabs up this...
View ArticleCORPORATE OFFICE PERSPECTIVES | OCTOBER 1, 2016
San Francisco currently has an office vacancy of 6.5%, 2 million feet for sublease, and 5 million square feet of tenants looking for space. The office vacancy in San Mateo County is 6.8%. In the East...
View Article1.6 mil sf was sublet in SF
In a recent CBRE report published in The Registry, 1.6 million square feet of sublease space in San Francisco was sublet, more than any prior year, there is still 2 million feet of available office...
View ArticleCORPORATE OFFICE PERSPECTIVES | DECEMBER 1, 2016
The Millennials are coming on strong, and they want flexibility, freedom and fun; mobile devices rule, texting may be preferred to a phone call, collaboration, work hard, play hard, and who cares about...
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