We just heard that the unemployment rate is now the lowest it’s been in many years. More jobs are being created and more are now available, but how does the national jobless report affect commercial real estate professionals?
Featured guests: Bob Poline (Poline Associates) and Kent Elliott (RETS Associates)
This show is a primer for landlords, tenants, property managers, lease administrators and anyone else who deals with commercial leases and the insurance provisions typically found in those leases. In nearly 40 years of lease negotiations and litigation, I’ve found that it’s the insurance provisions in leases that are the least negotiated and understood provisions in commercial leases. Even the attorneys often say “it’s a typical insurance provision.”
Featured guests: Ira Meislik (Managing Principal, Meislik & Meislik) and David B. Ezra (Principal, Berger Kahn)
Green buildings, sustainability and our environment. Listen to a free-flowing conversation on key environmental and commercial building sustainability issues in today’s environment with some of the top experts in the nation.
Featured guests are David Pogue, LEED® AP (Global Director of Corporate Responsibility, CBRE), Dr. Constantine E. Kontokosta, PE (Deputy Director, NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress), and William Teichman (Director of Sustainability, Kimco Realty Corporation)
Listen as we discuss with Jeff Reichard, the world of architectural copyright protection and what architects, developers and building owners need to know when planning new development.
Rand Sperry, founder of Sperry Van Ness, will discusses and tell stories of his personal and professional life, his successes and failures and the events that helped form the person and professional that he is.
Is cold calling dead? Has it been replaced by social media? Did it ever work? Do scripts work? Howard and his guests have over 90 years of combined cold calling experience and share tried and true solutions as well as their own, personal, hands on experience trying to market and promote their own businesses.
Featured guests are Rod Santomassimo, President of The Massimo Group and Mike Durnerin, Managing Partner of Techniques Marketing and our producer here at CRE Radio.
Is there some way that we can get past a lot of the negotiating positioning and “beeline” it straight to the agreement? Is it possible to design a lease that both parties can agree upon without time-wasting negotiations? What would the parties be giving up to start with a lease form “pre-negotiated” to include those provisions that normally show up in a lease after weeks of negotiations? Can the parties trust each other to start with a “centrist-type” form?
Featured guests are Ira Meislik, Managing Principal at Meislik & Meislik and Joel Hall, solo practitioner and former Assistant General Counsel for Gap Inc.
They say “what happens in California affects the rest of the country,” but I would add that is both good and bad news. It’s undeniable that California legislation and propositions often serve as a model for other states to adopt or avoid and this show is a review of some of the top legislation affecting California commercial property: Major reform to California’s ADA law (SB 1186), split roll property tax, and AB 5 (Homeless Person’s Bill Of Rights).
Featured guest is Rex Hime, President and CEO of the California Commercial Business Properties Association (CPBA).
How can mall and shopping center landlords and tenants provide a safe and secure environment for shoppers, in light of the Oregon Mall and Newtown shootings?
Our featured guests are Brian Cescolini, Co-CEO of Universal Protection Services, David Mistick of Circumspex, a noted author and expert on Disaster Preparedness and James Lauria, a noted educator, author and speaker on military and police training and public safety.
Talk about timely. This is the show in which we discuss in detail how the whole issue of the Fiscal Cliff will affect those of us in Commercial Real Estate. What will likely happen if we Congress avoids the cliff or just kicks the can down the road? What will happen to commercial real estate if Congress is unable to do anything by the end of the year?
Learn what is expected of you and how your responsibilities differ from when you are representing yourself. “It’s a different world when you are investing other people’s money.”
CRE Radio presents a special interview with Burton Young, President of Sperry Van Ness before his presentation at the SVN Broker Forum.
Have you wanted to hear a little bit of the insider’s scoop on the merger of Loopnet and Co-Star? Well now is your opportunity. I had the distinct pleasure of spending some time with Douglas Curry, founder and CEO of Xceligent. Doug talks about the origins of Xceligent, its relationship with Loopnet, how and why Loopnet had to divest itself before merging with Co-Star and what Exceligent is planning for the future.
Also in this show is a special interview with Trudi Lesser, President of CREW LA. Trudi talks about CREW LA’s event, Women at the Top, “The Art of Balance.”
We have a wonderful and eclectic line up of featured guests for this show, including icons of Southern California commercial real estate, others who can help you become a mover & shaker and others who just plain know what they are talking about when it comes to Southern California real estate. You know what they say about Southern California… what happens here, the rest of the country follows. Featured guests include Burton Young and Brandy Birtcher.
A recent lower court case out of Manhattan, New York raises a very interesting legal issue for both landlords and tenants: is an email adequate notice if the lease requires “written” notice? Read more
We're fully booked for interviews at RECON with a star-studded group of top notch executives from the most prestigious real estate firms. This isn't the old “wish you were here and too bad you’re not” interview series. We've asked our subjects to pick a topic that is near and dear to their hearts and minds. Read more
Many, many years ago (circa early 1980's) before the internet was even a twinkle in my eye, when I was General Counsel for Big Bear Markets, Big Bear’s principal owned and managed, internally about 2,000 residential units in addition to all of the company's shopping centers. One Saturday morning, I received a call from our real estate director advising me that he just fired the property manager and he needed help going through her office. There went my weekend. Read more
Option language as written by commercial landlords is usually a mirage and intended to be nothing more, by the landlord. An option almost never benefits the landlord. Read more
The California Supreme Court today decided that cities and counties may enact and enforce zoning ordinances that completely ban medical marijuana dispensaries within their geographical borders. Read more
The landlord’s property management policies and procedures are guidelines to be followed, unless there is good reason not to follow them. Read more
If the tenant obtains adequate insurance to cover these unknown risks, the landlord need worry less about the unknown, insurable risks and is more assured that the tenant can and will pay its rents through the end of the term. To this extent, insurance can be a credit enhancement... Read more
Our show, “Are Your Leases Really Covered by Insurance Clauses” is a perfect example of too much available information and too little time to present it. Whatever you hear or learn from this radio show, there are a couple of undisputed points that I believe that you should get out of the show: do not assume that a Certificate of Insurance from the tenant is evidence that the tenant has or is providing the insurance the lease requires. As a matter of fact, assume just the opposite. Read more
I knew something was wrong the moment I walked in the door.I had just stopped in to check on a job recently for a new client, when a burning chemical smell assaulted my senses. After checking on our technicians to make sure they were OK, it didn’t take me long to trace the source of the harsh fumes. Not far from our team, a worker from another company was stripping and waxing our client’s floor.My first thought was there must be a mistake. Our client prioritized using environmentally friendly alternatives at their facility and the service truck in the parking lot was from an “Eco” branded company. So I checked out the chemicals this “green” company was using and I quickly found the answer: greenwashing. Read more
Just read an interesting article by Andrew Hupert on the 3 Things You Need to Know When Negotiating with the Chinese Businessman. What caught my interest was how cultural differences impact negotiations. Mr. Hupert states: US-Chinese deals often start from slightly different places, but often end in very different dimensions. Americans want to wrap things... Read more
It appears that McDonalds is experimenting with a large, interactive billboard in a very public space where people can, without downloading an app, play pong in front of a crowd to win prizes, such as fries, burgers, shakes, etc. to drive traffic to their restaurant. Read more
Transparency hasn’t always come easy to real estate. Despite the efficiency and liquidity advantages that transparency brings to the marketplace, real estate continues to cling to its private roots when it comes to revealing details about individual assets. The same applies to the world of real estate sustainability. Despite all those plaques on the front... Read more
Much thanks to Stephen E. O’Day, Andy Thompson and Phillip Hoover at the law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP for bringing this new EPA Guidance to the light of day. It seems that the EPA has issued a new guidance to broaden protections of tenants even if the site owner does not qualify for protection as a Bona... Read more
Under the category of "you can teach teach old dogs new tricks," Jeff Reichard of the law firm of Nexsen Preut describes the 10 Things that You Should Know about Architectural Copyright law. I didn't even know that such a law existed, but it does. Did you know constructing a substantially similar building, without the permission of the architect, may infringe on the copyright owner's rights? To me, this begs the question... Read more
Frankly, the only thing that is clear about leasing to a tenant intending to use premises for the sale or cultivation of marijuana, is that nothing is clear on this issue and that a landlord should think twice about signing a lease or accepting rent from a tenant who intends to or is using the leased premises for the cultivation, sale or use of marijuana. Read more
RECON 2013
Networking for CRE Professionals Best practices w/ Laura Bruno, the "business relationship authority"