![]() Chief Executive reported that from to 2015, more than 1,800 companies left California. In the Western US, smaller companies have increasingly moved into inland states including those in the near west such as Utah, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona. The COVID crisis also has companies looking at remote working and even leasing satellite locations in the outer suburbs away from downtowns.” Business owners are looking beyond the Bay Area where both they and their employees can find better value and have more balanced home life. “Because the Bay Area is constrained due to water, companies have spread out as far as Sacramento 60 miles northeast, creating super-commutes for their employees with travel times exceeding 1.5 hours one way. “Particularly in the Bay Area, our firm has seen companies reach their limits,” Del Beccaro tells. ![]() Those firms needed to relocate where workforces could find lower cost of living and better quality of life. Mid-sized and small businesses such as billing companies, insurance firms, enterprise service companies, and smaller manufacturing and logistics firms couldn’t compete with larger employers for space or talent. In 2019, Census data showed that more people had moved out of California than had moved in for the seventh year in a row and a University of California Berkeley poll found 71% of people cited high cost of housing as the top reason for wanting to leave the state. At the same time, the affordability and availability of housing in California were making it difficult for working- and middle-class people to find homes. In California’s major markets pre-March 2020, vacancies were decreasing in every sector except retail, which had exhibited an overall demand dip regardless of location. The COVID pandemic is projected to accelerate this trend, according to Edward Del Beccaro, executive vice president with TRI Commercial/CORFAC International. ![]() The cost of doing business and heightened competition in top markets such as the Bay Area, Silicon Valley and the Los Angeles metro was untenable, and companies began to set their sights on inland markets. Faced with rising prices, and lack of office and industrial space, along with the rising cost of housing and business taxes, many small- and middle-market enterprises were under pressure. WALNUT CREEK, CA-Before the global pandemic that roiled the economy and commercial real estate industry, commercial real estate brokers were noting a growing trend of companies moving out of dense West Coast markets. The cost of doing business and heightened competition in top markets such as the Bay Area, Silicon Valley and the Los Angeles metro is increasingly untenable, and companies are setting their sights on inland markets. ![]()
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