With more than 20 years of commercial real estate experience, Michael McCandless has been an avid tenant representative for his entire career. In his role as corporate managing director, Michael is active in portfolio management, lease acquisitions, renewals and dispositions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and major metropolitan markets in the United States. His areas of expertise include development of strategic office real estate plans, market research, trend analysis, transaction strategy, municipal incentive negotiations, financial analysis and leverage negotiations. From young venture-backed startups to Fortune 100 companies, his core focus for 20 years has been exclusively on behalf of office tenants, providing truly unbiased advice. Savills business is not to prop up building asset values, but instead to use the natural market-clearing forces to improve the client’s bottom line.