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Mike Saign is a Vice Chairman in Newmark’s San Jose office. A Silicon Valley native, Saign specializes in developing and implementing customized real estate strategies for a diverse group of clients ranging from high-growth startup ventures to established global corporations. His consultative approach focuses on strategically aligning clients’ real estate commitments with their overall business objectives. Saign is differentiated by his ability to integrate traditional brokerage services with cutting-edge corporate advisory tools, enabling him to provide a fully integrated platform of solutions for successfully optimizing facility acquisitions, dispositions and lease restructurings. He has a proven track record of simplifying the strategic planning process, providing thoughtful site selection services, mitigating risk, increasing flexibility and reducing operating costs for his clients.
Saign also advises a wide range of institutional owners and developers across Silicon Valley on their asset management and leasing strategies. He and his agency advisory team are known for their headquarter leasing experience, state-of-the-art marketing expertise and best-in-class market intelligence.
Saign has consistently been one of Newmark’s top-ranked advisors. Over the last five years alone he was involved in over 6.5 million square feet of premier class ‘A’ office and R&D transactions. In 2021 he was involved in the largest private office lease of the year in the United States representing Tishman Speyer in a 719,037 square foot lease to Facebook. Saign received the 2020 Dealmaker and Deal of Year award from the Silicon Valley Business Journal. He has been named multiple times to Newmark’s Chairman’s Club, which recognizes the firm’s top 100 producing agents in the United States. Additionally, Saign has been recognized by Real Estate Forum as one of the Top 50 Under 40 rising commercial real estate professionals in the country. Since joining the firm, Saign has completed more than 500 assignments valued in excess of $6 billion. He is one of the first real estate professionals in Silicon Valley to have earned Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) accreditation. He is known by clients for his work ethic, competitive nature, expert market knowledge and integrity.
- 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
- 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
- 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