Real Perspectives Podcast

Bill Condon & Matt McGregor lead the industrial leasing efforts at Colliers Seattle, where Bill is also the Managing Director of the office. The industrial market is poised to be one of the winners coming out of the economic collapse of early 2020, and Bill & Matt provide an insider's look into the drivers of this sector of commercial real estate.

Elizabeth Hart and Michael Saign are both Vice Chairman with Newmark Knight Frank's offices in San Francisco and San Jose, respectively. We sit down with these two industry leaders to get a close look into the transforming world of Bay Area commercial real estate at the start of 2020. Most importantly, we asked them to contrast the two submarkets and help us understand the drivers of the industry as we move into the second half of this year.

Reid Thomas is Executive Vice President and General Manager of San Jose's NES Financial’s Specialty Financial Administration, focusing on technology-enabled EB-5, 1031 and Opportunity Zone fund administration.

NES announced earlier this month that it had entered into an acquisition agreement with JTC, a UK-based provider of fund, corporate and private client services to institutional and private clients, this is JTC’s first foray into the US market as an acquirer.

In his 40 years in commercial real estate, Ed Del Beccaro, has seen it all. Today Ed is the East Bay Regional Manager for the TRI Commercial offices located in Walnut Creek and Oakland. The East Bay brokerage operation is full-service with office, industrial, retail, multi-family and investment sales. In addition to brokerage, Ed aims to grow East Bay property management to complement TRI's Sacramento enterprise with over 4 million square feet of commercial property under management.

Ed is a specialist in leasing and sales of office, medical and retail properties and commercial/residential mixed-use projects. He has vast experience with distressed properties, land sales, securing project entitlements, consultant advisory services, and real estate valuation.

We picked his brain about the changes he's seeing in the industry and the winners and losers this crisis will create.

We sit down with John McNellis, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based commercial real estate developer who made waves early in the coronavirus days by taking a compassionate approach for some of his smaller retail tenants. With the impact of the pandemic wreaking havoc across the globe, we wanted to see how his gesture was received, if it motivated other landlords to do the same and overall, how he has perceived the industry reacted during the early onslaught of the virus' expansion across the nation.