Greater Southern CA CCIM Chapter

CCIM members attending the Real Share conference in Irvine.

at today's CCIM Luncheon we were fortunate to have Chris Masino, from Masino Industrial share best practices in commercial real estate marketing.

Leigh Steinberg, superstar sports agent, speaker for today's CCIM Luncheon

This past week, Randy Mason, the current Southern California CCIM chapter president, and his vice president, Nita P, attended the 2014 CCIM Spring Convention in Nashville Tennessee representing the Greater Southern California Chapter. He attended many committee meetings, met new people and continued to develop relationships with other CCIM colleagues.

Today's CCIM Lunch program was a Commercial Real Estate Lender Panel. Topics discussed were changes in CMBS financing, SBA loan programs, bridge, mezzanine and construction lending programs and predictions on interest rates. Panelists included Art Armas, Orange County's Credit Union; Greg Brown, HFF; and Melanie Smith, City National Bank. Next month's luncheon topic: "Protecting Your Commission."

Randy Mason, the current Southern California CCIM chapter president and Allen Greer, meet at the Newport Beach Country Club for Allen Greer's state of the economy and 2014 commercial real estate forecast. The event was well attended by CCIM members and guests.

Starting March 2014 CCIM Luncheons have a new venue at Orange County's Credit Union. Special thanks to Art Armas (shown left) from OCCU, Greg Dill from Bank of the West and Randy Mason (right) from Commercial Real Estate Specialists.

Rex Hime from CA Business Properties was our guest speaker at this month's chapter luncheon. Rex discussed the ongoing fight in Sacramento to repeal prop 13 for commercial properties and new legislation affecting business in CA.