Jim Gray's (jimgray) Blog

An Economic Catch-22 -A logical Paradox for job growth? A recent report from the UCLA Anderson Forecast issued June 15th 2010, predicts that the California economy is expected to grow a bit slower than the nation's economy for 2010, and only slightly faster thereafter. This slow growth rate will ...

This month, June 2010, the magazine Western Real Estate Business has a profile on the Sacramento Market. With our colleagues at Cassidy Turley we contributed to the commercial real estate market review. Here are our particular observations on the office market in Sacramento.. OfficeThe Sacramento...

We received a phone call the other day that got us thinking. The call came in from a former client who was an acquisitions specialist for a developer. He no longer works for the company that he used to work for ---that developer is still trying to liquidate the surplus of units that they overbuil...

Monday, May 31, 2010 Recent jobs report indicates that northern California losing jobs ...but rate of decline is slowing.   A recent report by the Center for Strategic Economic Research dated May 2010 paints an accurate picture of the continuing job losses in the Sacramento, Bay Area, Solano, and...

Can you help me find an investment property? Digging into the details, asking questions and having a good chuckle ...Just the other day my colleague Nahz got an email from a prospect of ours who is looking for an "investment property". We love those kinds of inquiries. This prospect is a sophist...

Attention developers!! Green-no longer just an ideal but now a reality. California Green Building Code enacted...We like to think of ourselves as progressive, helping our clients better understand the ins and outs of what it takes to develop buildings for the upcoming century. It is clear that w...

Slowing Market... What we must do to work smarter for our clients   So the market is slowing? What are we doing to work smarter on behalf of our clients? This is the crux of the soul searching that we commercial real estate brokers must be doing right now. Below are a few of the underlying questi...

Lots of Options --Office Buildings For Sale Sacramento   Office Buildings For Sale in the Sacramento Valley-What Does That Really Mean?Sifting through Lots of Opportunites...So you are looking for an office building to buy in the Sacramento area? Or you are thinking about investing in a commercia...

Bad Omens No Matter What You Call Them   Closures, Lay-offs, Bankruptcies, Notices of Default... Bad Omens no matter what you call themIn the world of investment and office real estate there are many factors that influence the supply and demand for commercial space. A major factor that stimulates...

Tough or Bear Markets --Some Advice to Consider and Opportunites to Consider   In tough or bear markets-important advice and opportunities to watch for.... We are sales people and consider ourselves "honest brokers." One of the challenges that we must confront is to coach and counsel parties to b...