Colin Yasukochi

Executive Director, Tech Insights Center

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Professional Experience

For over 20 years, Colin Yasukochi has specialized in strategic research and advisory services for commercial real estate, providing insight that reveals opportunities and guides decision making. He currently serves as CBRE’s Executive Director of its newly formed Tech Insights Center, based in San Francisco, CA.

Backed by Colin’s leadership, the CBRE Tech Insights Center provides thoughtful real estate perspectives on the ever-evolving tech sector in the United States. As a pioneer in tech industry research in commercial real estate, Colin has been the lead author of CBRE’s tech-focused thought leadership pieces—including Scoring Tech Talent and Tech-30.

Colin has a distinct perspective of the business and is recognized as a leading real estate market expert through years of experience in analyzing market trends and economics. Previously, he served as CBRE’s Director of Research and Analysis for the Western Region and has frequently been called upon to evaluate real estate industry facts, figures and reports for news media commentary.  Colin has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Business Times, as well as national real estate and tech publications.