Where We Are Now: April 13, 2020

  Work From Home — Day 29 Market Dynamics — Shifting to Offense 5:12AM PST Team – Survey count over 720. Thank you! Two quick items before our survey results on market dynamics. The reSolve Group in Palo Alto had the suggestion to use your Compass Cares funds to encourage local restaurants, who need the business, to provide meals to first responders, health care workers, or...

What's Happening This Week: April 13, 2020

Los Angeles Greater Area 10 greenhorn gardener queries OK, so you’re not a seasoned horticulturalist. Maybe you’ve never planted as much as a sunflower seed. Don’t be embarrassed – ask! Pretty soon, you’ll be coaching the next crop of veggie-seeking newbies. View this post on Instagram The magic of composting is what the motley mix becomes after just two or three months: a brown, crumbly,...

Where We Are Now: April 10, 2020

Work From Home — Day 26 Is Venting OK? Team – Good Friday morning! Wall Street is closed today. Every day seems to be a month long. More goes through my mind in a day than normally in a month. Our crisis world is spinning so fast. Spinning does not mean moving. More like spinning in place [SIP]. I have referred to SIP as “running...

1000Watt Forum with Mark McLaughlin

Mark A. McLaughlin, President – Compass California, participated in an webinar with Brian Boero, CEO, 1000Watt Consulting. Watch the interview below, and read Mark’s daily insights in his twice daily Where We Are Now series.

Where We Are Now: April 9, 2020

Work From Home — Day 25 Reflections on 2008 Playbook & Teamwork 5:47AM PST Team – We started Morgan Lane (a residential brokerage) in Marin County in September 2006. In August 2007, Countrywide went down as a result of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. Bank of America stepped in to save Countrywide. Marin County was not impacted by the sub-prime meltdown, but the event brought caution...

Where We Are Now: April 8, 2020

Work From Home — Day 24 — Closing Bell Pink Moon Team – One of my first calls today was with Gail Dunnett, Founder and CEO of StudioD, a high-end California and New York based home staging business. We were discussing our opinions on the velocity of the post-SIP economy. Clearly, stagers will be among real estate’s first in to prepare listings for marketing. As...

Where We Are Now: April 7, 2020

Work From Home — Day 23 Can You Learn to Chill? 5:10AM PST Team – What is more dynamic? AA battery or a AAA battery? Most of us are type A personalities. We make life happen. Some of us are AA or even AAA personalities. What is better? What is worse? Nothing in my mind separates “driven” personality traits. We are all driven. Some of...

What's Happening This Week: April 6, 2020

Los Angeles Greater Area Wander museums worldwide Art institutions everywhere have created virtual tours of their collections – filled with way  more works than they could ever show in their galleries. Best of all: no other visitors to block your view. View this post on Instagram “While being quarantined in the studio cave I have been thinking about the friendships and communities that for me...

Where We Are Now: April 6, 2020

Work From Home — Day 22 Learning Opportunity — Jobs & Housing Markets 5:00AM PST Team –  I was biking Sunday with my friend Boyd Fellows. He is in the commercial real estate debt business and originates around $5 billion a year in commercial real estate loans. Boyd and his partners had an all-team meeting on Friday (on video conferencing of course). One of the...