How Losing-Money-in-Real-Estate Becomes Cool by John McNellis • Aug 24, 2018 • 23 Comments Compass, a real-estate-brokerage unicorn with $800 million in venture funding and a $2.2 billion “valuation,” disrupts – itself?
Could California Flame Out? by John McNellis • Aug 5, 2018 • 112 Comments High housing costs & taxes lead to this: “Once we decided we had to get our employees out of California, we went about our search systematically.”
What Future Is Uber Seeing for Itself? by John McNellis • Jul 15, 2018 • 59 Comments Its fleet of autonomous cars thus far has gone the way of the Spanish Armada, producing nothing but grief.
Screwed: Real Estate Brokers Tell All by John McNellis • Jun 7, 2018 • 43 Comments Success means being able to choose who you work with.
Does WeWork at All? by John McNellis • May 16, 2018 • 46 Comments The CEO is selling that $20 billion valuation to a lot of smart, rich guys. But WeWork’s entities are known as SPE’s (“Screwing Probably Expected”), and landlords will be the first to go down.
How I Bought a Retail Property and Entered the Hell of Regulatory Interpretation by John McNellis • Feb 3, 2018 • 35 Comments To quote Ringo Starr, “I’m certain that it happens all the time.”
How to Face the Housing Crisis in Expensive Cities by John McNellis • Nov 19, 2017 • 75 Comments The lowest hanging fruit of them all: Airbnb and its ilk.
California’s Housing is Bleeding Out and We Apply Band-Aids by John McNellis • Oct 8, 2017 • 89 Comments Insider view on how to deal with the Housing Crisis in California.
Landlord’s View of the Brick and Mortar Meltdown by John McNellis • Sep 28, 2017 • 99 Comments “We are faced with weekly tenant bankruptcies, defaults, and requests for rent or space reductions.”
“Full-Fledged Housing Crisis” in Silicon Valley, Insider View by John McNellis • Aug 22, 2017 • 67 Comments As long as local officials strangle housing starts, the mirage of affordability will be pushed further toward the distant horizon.
