By Forrest Blake, Senior Vice President SVN Commercial - 310-850-2381 CalBRE Lic # 01054174
Welcome to 2018. To say there will be substantial change this year is an understatement. In this newsletter edition, I'd like to share with you my predictions on how these changes will affect you and your work environment. Please enjoy.
1. Rents Will Rise
Gone are the days of 50-100 different landlords in a given submarket. With fewer landlords competing for your lease means, rents will continue to increase in the new year. Read More
2. Traditional Offices are Disappearing
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The goal of this special report on the Five Factors That Could Lead To $5 Rents is to help commercial real estate tenants foresee their future rent or lease exposure and to communicate practical strategies to maintain, or limit increase in the cost of leasing space in the Los Angeles market and throughout the world.
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Forrest Blake | Senior Vice President
SVN | Commercial - DTLA
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Rich Landlord . . . Poor Tenant was written by Forrest Blake to provide tenants rarely revealed information about how to effectively create leverage with landlords. After reading this book, and key decision makers who deal with the landlord and their agents will understand the components that go into a landlord's decision to increase or decrease rent. Also, the book clearly exposes the tricks used to give upfront lease concessions and then take them away through clever lease provisions which grant the landlord the right to increase operating expenses, parking charges, load factor, and even square...
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By: Forrest Blake
Over two decades I have made representing tenants in commercial real estate a major part of my professional life. I have always questioned the standard method of measuring the success of a commercial office lease transaction based on the rate-per-square-foot. If this was an accurate measurement, then all my professional service clients should have leased warehouse space in Commerce, CA at only $0.45 per square foot. Their rents would be cut by 75%, but likely the same percentage of staff would quit because of the poor working conditions. Yes, I am giving a dramatic example...
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Engage Forrest Blake to Speak on, "People Equals Profits"
The people you employee and manage are central to a successful business. Hiring, retaining and maximizing productivity must be at the center of any business strategy. Company growth in the new economy will include baby boomers late in their career and echo boomers looking for alternative workplace strategies. Getting the most out of these very diverse groups takes a substantial amount of creativity and tenacity.
Over the past 7 years I owned and ran GolfTEC improvement centers in Sothern California. Prior to selling the company...
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By Forrest Blake
In today's environment we are forced to be doers and not thinkers. Our time is spent scheduling daily task, without consideration of whether those tasks have any relationship to our ultimate goals. Saturated with e‑mails, phone calls, pages, meetings and rushing home to the family and a whole additional set of time sensitive tasks. With all of these "To do's" and interruptions, how could a person ever clear their mind to think, especially focused thinking? The difference between computers and humans is that humans have the ability to adapt to real-world situations. We think...
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