Hughes Marino | May 2, 2024 HM Blog As a commercial real estate company, we have insight into how shifting real estate trends and economic factors are impacting the surrounding communities where we work and live. And in seeing these issues—lack of resources, housing insecurity, environmental concerns—we are called to take action. Our core value #8 is “generously give to others” and we are proud to live out this core value across all our offices. In addition to each of our team members receiving three days off per year to volunteer, each of our offices contributes to volunteer efforts within o ..read more

Hughes Marino | May 1, 2024 HM Blog Spring is in full force, and our 2024 HM Mini Goal Program keeps surprising us with more and more creative ways everyone is accomplishing our mini goals. In April, our goal was to have an outdoor adventure, and we loved seeing you enjoy the great outdoors all across the country! From watching the solar eclipse that took the U.S. by storm, to picking flowers on a farm, taking strolls on the beach, hiking and even scuba diving, these submissions keep getting better as the months go by. We even had a submission from the hills of France! Keep scrolling to see s ..read more

Hannah McNeil | April 24, 2024 HM Blog, Market Reports By Hannah McNeil As we enter the fourth year since the COVID pandemic shook the world, the Boston office market is still struggling to find its bottom. Each day we see another news article documenting the collapse of the office leasing market, not just in Boston, but across the country. In reality, many of those articles fail to report the full severity of conditions and the corresponding beneficial impact to follow for companies leasing office space in the greater Boston area. These are the top trends in the Boston office market: Hybrid ..read more

Hughes Marino | April 17, 2024 Forbes In 1954, Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics quickly became a standard textbook for any introductory statistics class, addressing thorny concepts such as random sampling, correlation versus causation and visual misrepresentation through scale manipulation or truncation. The book makes the case that we are all susceptible to being misled if we are not careful about the way we interpret statistics. In line with this, the commercial real estate brokerage industry frequently distorts statistics by manipulating the measurement of available space in terms ..read more

Hughes Marino | April 1, 2024 HM Blog One whole quarter of ‘doing what we said we would do’ for our 2024 HM Mini Goal Program is complete! Isn’t it fulfilling to have accomplished three fun goals this year? In March, our goal was to plant something, and we loved seeing your green thumbs in action! From planting trees in your backyards, to planting seedlings across our offices, to herb and vegetable gardens, you really showed up to celebrate spring. Keep scrolling to see some of our photo submissions of our plantings across the country. It’ll be rewarding to see their growth in the summertime ..read more

Hannah McNeil | April 24, 2024 HM Blog, Market Reports By Hannah McNeil As we enter the fourth year since the COVID pandemic shook the world, the Boston office market is still struggling to find its bottom. Each day we see another news article documenting the collapse of the office leasing market, not just in Boston, but across the country. In reality, many of those articles fail to report the full severity of conditions and the corresponding beneficial impact to follow for companies leasing office space in the greater Boston area. These are the top trends in the Boston office market: Hybrid ..read more

Hughes Marino | April 17, 2024 Forbes In 1954, Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics quickly became a standard textbook for any introductory statistics class, addressing thorny concepts such as random sampling, correlation versus causation and visual misrepresentation through scale manipulation or truncation. The book makes the case that we are all susceptible to being misled if we are not careful about the way we interpret statistics. In line with this, the commercial real estate brokerage industry frequently distorts statistics by manipulating the measurement of available space in terms ..read more

Hughes Marino | April 1, 2024 HM Blog One whole quarter of ‘doing what we said we would do’ for our 2024 HM Mini Goal Program is complete! Isn’t it fulfilling to have accomplished three fun goals this year? In March, our goal was to plant something, and we loved seeing your green thumbs in action! From planting trees in your backyards, to planting seedlings across our offices, to herb and vegetable gardens, you really showed up to celebrate spring. Keep scrolling to see some of our photo submissions of our plantings across the country. It’ll be rewarding to see their growth in the summertime ..read more

Cameron Love | March 21, 2024 HM Blog There’s something that happens when people start declaring the decline of a city. The negative stories pile up, each one feeding into the same narrative. San Francisco is the latest victim of this city-shaming. The idea that “the global tech industry’s center of gravity” needs to be defended against claims that it is too unsafe—or too expensive—to thrive, seems surprising. But these beliefs about San Francisco continue to swirl around unchecked, so let’s get them out in the open. Myth #1: San Francisco is unsafe. San Francisco’s violent crime rate ha ..read more

Hughes Marino | April 17, 2024 Forbes In 1954, Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics quickly became a standard textbook for any introductory statistics class, addressing thorny concepts such as random sampling, correlation versus causation and visual misrepresentation through scale manipulation or truncation. The book makes the case that we are all susceptible to being misled if we are not careful about the way we interpret statistics. In line with this, the commercial real estate brokerage industry frequently distorts statistics by manipulating the measurement of available space in terms ..read more