“We're going backwards, armed with new technology” is a line from Depeche Mode’s 2017 opening track to its fourteenth studio album. This sentiment may very well sum up the feelings of modern life, and it certainly is reflective of the changes taking place in the real estate brokerage industry. After a decade or so of falling behind the advances in technology and communications of other key service industries, the real estate brokerage world is on a fast-track to catch up, and is empowering independent companies, whose prevalence diminished during the past 40 years. This renaissance isn’t led by multi-market corporate real estate companies. The change is happening locally by a new breed of boutique companies, empowered by readily available, high-quality education & training coupled with leaps in high-quality, cutting edge real estate technology. It’s taking place at the sole proprietor and partnership level by savvy, entrepreneurial, and educated professionals, who see
HinkinsREA transferred its Brokerage Services Jan 1st, 2017 to Trimark Commercial Real Estate. President and Managing Broker, Mark Hinkins, CCIM, FRICS commented "as a technological and cultural shift sweeps across the Bay Area and through the commercial property industry, the timing was right to form a new breed of brokerage company focused on empowering broker's and agent's by connecting them with readily available, high-quality education & training and high-quality, cutting edge real estate technology. Trimark Commercial Real Estate successfully executes all aspects of investment property acquisition, disposition and due diligence. Brokerage services include office, retail, industrial and multi-family properties, REO disposition and 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges. L easing agents are located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with specialists in San Francisco and the East Bay.