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The TI Allowance Is the Wrong Question. The Scope Is the Question.
Owners almost always open the conversation with a number. “Is sixty per foot enough?” “Is one-twenty too rich for that floor?” “What are people doing on second-gen office right now?” The number matters. We will get to the numbers. But the per-foot allowance is…
Sell or Hold: What the Conversation Is Actually About
Most sell-versus-hold conversations are not about the building. They are about a partnership that no longer functions the way it did when it was formed. They are about a trustee who has to put a defensible record in front of beneficiaries by the end of the year. They…
A Commercial Property Budget That Holds Up in March
The annual budget is the one document an owner can keep using all year, or the one document an owner files in October and never reopens. The difference is not the spreadsheet. The difference is whether the budget was built to be reported against month by month, and…
San Diego Office Market 2026: The Owner’s View From Inside the Buildings
The Question Owners Keep Asking Three months into 2026, the calls coming in from owners have changed shape. The question is no longer how much rent is moving. The question is whether the building they are sitting on is still the building they thought they owned in…
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