Buying vs Renting Office Space in the Bay Area

 

As rents continue to rise across the Bay Area businesses have started to alter their approach to obtaining office space. Rather than submit themselves to higher rent costs, companies are now far more likely to buy their own properties.

This strategy has been adopted by some of the biggest companies in the world, like Google, Facebook, and Apple. Daniel Litwin and Tyler Kern discuss this approach on this excerpt from Business Casual, presented by MarketScale.

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