No pitch. Just the
numbers, and the door
out.
You’re not ready to talk to a broker and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.
This page is the useful version of Southern California commercial real estate:
what’s actually available, what things cost, what’s changing, and where to read
more. Take what you need and go.
Three things worth knowing before you talk to anyone
01
Asking rent isn't market rent
What a landlord asks and what a comparable deal actually closed at are
different numbers, and only one of them is useful. Closed comps aren’t public the way home sales are, and that gap is most of the information asymmetry in this business.
02
Base rent is a fraction of the cost
CAM, taxes, insurance, the personal guarantee, the improvement allowance and the holdover rate all move real money. Most first-time tenants negotiate rent and sign everything else as written.
03
The broker on the sign works for the owner
Not a scandal, just how the agreements are written. It matters because “helpful” and “representing you” are not the same thing, and the difference shows up during negotiation.
Property types and where
Eight regions, from San Diego up through Central California.
Retail
Strip centres, marketplaces, single-tenant pads and street retail.
Industrial
Warehouse, distribution,
manufacturing and last-mile.
Office
Single and multi-tenant, creative and
traditional.
Flex
Office-warehouse combinations for
operators who need both.
Medical office
Purpose-built and converted, with the
plumbing and power that implies.
Multifamily
Investment residential across the
region.
Commercial property for lease in Southern California
No registration, no email gate. Click through and look.
We market property like a marketing company
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Two things you can ask for
without becoming a lead
What's my property worth?
A complimentary Broker Opinion of Value with the reasoning
attached, not just a number. If the honest answer is “hold it and
do nothing,” that’s what you’ll get.
Is my lease normal?
Send us the lease you’ve been handed and we’ll tell you which clauses are standard, which are aggressive, and which ones a lawyer should look at. We’re brokers, not attorneys, and we’ll be
clear about the line.
Things people ask before they're ready to call
Do I have to talk to anyone to see listings?
No. The listings page is open, no registration and no email gate. If something interests you, the
contact details are there when you want them.
Is it too early to talk to a broker?
Then the first question isn’t whether to switch, it’s whether the current arrangement is working. Ask for two numbers: how many enquiries the space has had in the last ninety days, and how many of those were toured. If nobody can produce them, the space isn’t being marketed, it’s being listed.
If you’re under an exclusive listing agreement we won’t approach you about that building until it expires, and we’ll tell you the date. If you’re not, or if it’s close, we’ll show you what we’d do differently and you can decide. No obligation and no pressure.
What does it cost to work with you?
Yes, and at the start rather than after nine months of silence. An agent who agrees with whatever number you say is an agent planning to be unemployed in six months.
You’ll get a written rent opinion with the reasoning behind it: what comparable space nearby actually leased for, not what it was asked for, and what the concessions and TI packages in those deals looked like. If your number is optimistic you’ll hear it, with the evidence. If it’s low, you’ll hear that too, because five years of below-market income also damages the value of the building. No obligation and no listing agreement required.
Should I be leasing or buying?
Same machine, different outcome. Full media, an offering memorandum, outreach to our database and the investment brokerage community, and a stated offer deadline so buyers bid against each other rather than against you.
Start with a Broker Opinion of Value: our number and the reasoning that produced it, weighing recent sales, the income the property throws off, replacement cost and what buyers are currently paying in your submarket. Free and no obligation.
One thing we’ll raise before you commit: if you’re selling to free up cash rather than to exit, a refinance or cash-out may get you there while you keep the asset and the income. We’ll show you both sets of numbers. Losing a listing to a refinance is a good outcome if it was the right one for you.
Will you put me on a mailing list if I get in touch?
Before a lease is signed, not after. We ask for the entity and who’s actually behind it, two to three years of tax returns and recent bank statements, a credit report on the entity and the guarantor, trade and prior-landlord references, and the business plan for the space.
Then we look at the things that don’t show up on a credit report: whether the use is permitted and what the permitting timeline looks like, whether the rent is a sane percentage of what the business realistically does, whether the guaranty is personal or corporate and worth anything if it’s corporate, and how much of your capital the build-out asks you to put at risk.
You see the file and the recommendation, including our reservations. You sign the lease, so you make the call.
Do you cover my area?
Then it’s a financing problem being mistaken for a leasing problem. The TI allowance is often what decides which building a tenant picks, and losing a deal over it is expensive twice: you lose the tenant, and the space goes back on the market stale.
KEYZ Capital, our capital division, arranges construction, bridge and refinance debt, so that conversation happens here rather than being handed off. We’ll also model whether the improvement is worth funding at all — some build-outs raise what the building is worth to the next tenant, and some are a write-off the day that tenant leaves. Those are different decisions and should be priced differently in the deal.
Pick the version of this that fits you
Tenant representation. We find it, read
the lease and negotiate on your side.
Buyer representation, financing and
due diligence, usually at no cost to
you.
Leasing and sales marketing that
actually gets the space seen.
Acquisition, 1031, repositioning and
disposition strategy.
Co-brokerage and referrals with
written client protection.
The firm, the founder, and why he
started it.
Still just looking? Good.
No form on this page. When you want a number, a lease read or an opinion,
the phone is answered by people who do this every day.
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