About

Jim Laing is a Senior Director with over 41 years of experience in commercial real estate, specializing in urban and suburban office properties. Mr. Laing’s geographic area of expertise ranges from Downtown San Diego through Mission Valley and Kearny Mesa, North to Scripps Ranch and Carmel Mountain. The majority of his efforts are on behalf of the owners of the office projects, with tenant representation limited to a small referral based groups of clients.

Mr. Laing has been involved from the “ground up” in the design – development of numerous office projects with the specific objective of a rapid lease-up, rent-roll stability and increased value. He continues to lease the majority of those projects on behalf of the original developer or subsequent owners, as a result of sales to institutional investors. These projects have ranged in size and quality from Class B Suburban low-rise medical office buildings to Class A Downtown high-rise office towers.

Assignments

• Real Estate Advisor/Leasing Agent for multiple institutional Downtown high-rise office building owners.
  • 550 Corporate Center: 361,270 RSF; 110 Plaza: 325,976 RSF; 600 “B” Street: 347,972 RSF
• Real Estate Advisor/Leasing Agent for multiple low-rise suburban office building owners.
  • Balboa Park Plaza (UT) 60,000 RSF; Rio San Diego Plaza II (MV) 74,000 RSF; 9449 Balboa (KM) 58,000 RSF; Willow Creek Plaza (SR) 74,000 RSF
• Real Estate Advisor/Leasing Agent to Sharp HealthCare.
  • Provided on-going, direct assistance to the Sharp facilities and real estate management team for their 3rd party real estate portfolio. Assisted in property and transaction assessments/negotiations for Sharp assets and related physician based office requirements, both clinical and administrative.

Education

Mr. Laing is a native to Iowa, with an educational background in Engineering/Architecture from Loras University in Dubuque, Iowa. He spent eleven years as a Naval Flight Officer in San Diego and Southeast Asia and seven years as a general contractor. He has been recognized as an annual “Top

Producer” on multiple occasions as well as receiving the Malin Burnham Award of Excellence. He provided operational oversight for an annual La Jolla-UCSD School of Medicine fund-raising event for a period of ten years, achieving over $1,000,000 in net contributions to the UCSD School of Medicine.