Mike Saign is a Vice Chairman in Newmark’s San Jose office and one of the firm’s most active advisors in Northern California. A Silicon Valley native, Saign specializes in developing and implementing customized real estate strategies for some of the region’s most prominent owners and occupiers. During his 20-year career, he has completed over 700 lease, sale, and advisory assignments valued in excess of $7.2 billion and totaling over 13.6 million square feet. Saign and his partners have routinely completed some of the Bay Area’s most significant and complicated office and R&D transactions annually involving global corporations to high growth startups in the technology, professional service and life science industries. He is one of the first real estate professionals in Silicon Valley to have earned Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) accreditation. Saign is known by clients for his market knowledge, tested transactional experience, work ethic, integrity, and competitive nature.
Partial List of Professional Achievements
- 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2015 Newmark Chairman’s Circle Top 100 National Producer
- 2022 Broker of the Year Office and R&D Listing - Association of Silicon Valley Brokers
- 2022 No. 2 Ranked Silicon Valley Commercial Real Estate Agent - Silicon Valley Business Journal
- 2022, 2021 Newmark San Jose Office No. 1 Producer
- 2021 Largest Private Office Lease in the United States - CoStar
- 2020 Dealmaker of the Year - Silicon Valley Business Journal
- 2020 Deal of the Year - Silicon Valley Business Journal
- 2024 - 2021, 2019, 2015 - 2013 Newmark Northern California Top 20 Producer
- 2018 Top 50 Under 40 - Real Estate Forum
Education
Saign is a graduate of Boston College where he rowed on the crew team.
Partial List of Clients and Completed Assignments
- Jay Paul Company Sunnyvale lease to Facebook - 1,051,899 SF
- Jay Paul Company Sunnyvale lease to Amazon - 802,742 SF
- Tishman Speyer Sunnyvale lease to Facebook - 719,037 SF
- Harvest/Invesco Sunnyvale lease and sale to LinkedIn - 548,152 SF
- Jay Paul Company Sunnyvale lease to Google - 498,362 SF
- Jay Paul Company Sunnyvale lease to LinkedIn - 410,674 SF
- Jay Paul Company Sunnyvale lease to Apple - 382,484 SF
- Sobrato Organization Santa Clara lease to ServiceNow - 328,867 SF
- Embarcadero Capital/PCCP Milpitas lease to Becton Dickinson – 239,529 SF
- Embarcadero Capital Milpitas lease to Renesas - 216,163 SF
- EQT San Jose lease to confidential tech company - 206,566 SF
- Carlyle/South Bay Campbell lease to 8x8 - 177,815 SF
- Zscaler San Jose HQ lease - 172,405 SF
- Invesco Sunnyvale lease to Alibaba - 166,307 SF
- One Workplace Santa Clara HQ acquisition - 192,000 SF
- DivcoWest San Jose lease to Stryker - 185,000 SF
- Netgear San Jose lease extension - 142,700 SF
- Stockbridge/Steelwave Milpitas sale to Inspur - 132,596 SF
- Shorenstein Santa Clara leases to CA Technologies - 128,187 SF
- Embarcadero Capital/PCCP Milpitas lease to Corsair Gaming - 118,127 SF
- Siemens Mountain View consolidation and relocation - 117,113
- Jay Paul Company Sunnyvale lease to Comcast – 111,707 SF
- DivcoWest San Jose lease to Jabil - 110,542 SF
- DivcoWest San Jose lease to Roche - 99,734 SF
- DivcoWest/Rockpoint San Jose lease to Cohesity - 98,675 SF
- Tenaya Therapeutics Union City lease - 94,046 SF
- DivcoWest/Rockpoint San Jose lease to WeWork - 80,072 SF
- Arlo San Jose HQ Disposition to Vocera - 77,822 SF
- Trellix Plano HQ disposition to WRA - 75,251 SF
- Elo Touch Solutions Milpitas HQ lease and disposition - 74,824 SF
- DiDi Labs Mountain View leases - 46,462 SF
- NTT Research Sunnyvale lease - 45,152 SF
- Electronics for Imaging Fremont lease - 44,904 SF
- GoDaddy Sunnyvale lease - 40,521 SF
- Talis Biomedical HQ Lease - 38,580 SF