Creative deal-making skills and the ability to reposition obsolete real estate are necessary elements for buyers entering the highly competitive Orange County marketplace, Savills Studley's Brad Schmitt tells GlobeSt.com.

Making young people or those in other careers aware of the value and stability of property management—and providing the proper education to ready them—are key in drawing in future candidates, IREM's Blaire Hoffman tells GlobeSt.com.

The secret to maintaining existing tenants even while raising rents is management quality in addition to the enhancements made to a property, the Muller Co.'s Jon Muller tells GlobeSt.com.

Amazon is finding it quite a bit more difficult to innovate in this new environment largely governed by preexisting binding legal agreements than in the freewheeling world of online commerce, Landmark's Adam Deermount tells GlobeSt.com.

The third quarter benefitted from larger occupiers finalizing deals on some big blocks of space in Otay Mesa, Rancho Bernardo and Sorrento Mesa as space needs for industrial occupiers become increasingly more specific, CBRE's Sean Williams tells GlobeSt.com.

Affordable housing, if done well and successfully, will address the social, emotional, physical and educational needs of the residents, and these needs can be further met if the housing doesn't look 'affordable,' Related California's Liane Takano tells GlobeSt.com.

Without a doubt, since the city's lifestyle of work hard/play hard has put companies on the world platform as a hub to have their businesses located here, JLL's senior research analyst Patrick Ashton tells GlobeSt.com.

Focus on the last mile, as well as the vastly different operating expenses in California due to Prop 13 reassessments are two of the biggest issues on industrial tenants' minds, C&W's Tina Arambulo and Kevin Turner tell GlobeSt.com.