Real Estate for Startups | Greg Pickett
About Greg Pickett
Utilizing his background in real estate finance and his skills in the areas of communications and analysis, Greg Pickett represents the interests of corporate clients and their real estate needs. Greg specializes in representing tenants in the leasing and disposition of property on the Peninsula and Silicon Valley.
Greg has represented a wide range of companies from the venture capital funded start-ups to the large public corporations. Greg joined DTZ (formerly Cassidy Turley) after starting his career at Colliers International. After his first full year with the firm, he received the DTZ “Rookie of the Year” award for Northern California. Greg has been a “Rising Star Award” recipient every year since and is the fastest the reach “Vice President” and “Senior Vice President” status. In every transaction Greg has been involved, his market knowledge, creativity, and scope of services have saved his clients countless dollars with little to no cost. Greg believes in the value of developing long term relationships and therefore he strives to conduct business with the highest standards of honest and professional ethics.
Greg enjoys basketball, soccer, skiing, triathlons, and tennis. He was born and raised in Los Altos and currently resides in Menlo Park with his wife and two sons.
Interview Transcript:
Greg Pickett
If you’re a brand new company, I always say okay, well how many people do you hope to have by the end of the year, and is flexibility more important to you, or is getting the best deal? Price wise, more important, because some of these companies, they would rather sign a three year deal and get a good rate than pay a premium to just do a one year finding that most companies, they like that flexibility. And so you get a space that they can kind of grow into for a year. But the beauty of this market is if you go into a really tight market and get a space in a tight market, it’s typically very easy to sublease out that space when you grow up. And so that’s that’s the bonus to go into an expensive area like a downtown Palo Alto, or South of Market in San Francisco, is you could sign a five year lease there and if you grow out of it in a year and a half, it’s very likely you’ll be able to sell it sit out and not lose any money. In many cases, companies are profiting from it.
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Utilizing his background in real estate finance and his skills in the areas of communications and analysis, Greg Pickett represents the interests of corporate clients and their real estate needs. Greg specializes in representing tenants in the leasing and disposition of property on the Peninsula and Silicon Valley.
Greg has represented a wide range of companies from the venture capital funded start-ups to the large public corporations. Greg joined DTZ (formerly Cassidy Turley) after starting his career at Colliers International. After his first full year with the firm, he received the DTZ “Rookie of the Year” award for Northern California. Greg has been a “Rising Star Award” recipient every year since and is the fastest the reach “Vice President” and “Senior Vice President” status. In every transaction Greg has been involved, his market knowledge, creativity, and scope of services have saved his clients countless dollars with little to no cost. Greg believes in the value of developing long term relationships and therefore he strives to conduct business with the highest standards of honest and professional ethics.
Greg enjoys basketball, soccer, skiing, triathlons, and tennis. He was born and raised in Los Altos and currently resides in Menlo Park with his wife and two sons.
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