Allen C. Buchanan, SIOR | Principal
(714) 564-7104
[email protected]
DRE# 00870947
Location Advice
Biography
Allen C. Buchanan, SIOR joined Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc. – Orange in 1984 after five years in the consumer goods business with Procter and Gamble Distributing Company and the E and J Gallo Winery. Allen Buchanan has spent his real estate career in the industrial arena in North Orange and West Riverside County. His specialties include user representation, owner representation, and investment sales. Allen C. Buchanan became a shareholder in Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc. – Orange in 1988. Mr. Buchanan is continually recognized as a Top Five Producer of the Orange office over the last 32 years.Education
- Bachelors of Arts in Economics, University of Arkansas
Accreditations & Community Involvement
- Association of Industrial Realtors (AIR)
- Orange County Register Contributing Columnist
- SIOR Member (Society of Industrial & Office Realtors)
Transactions
- 185,000 SF Sale – La Palma Avenue Anaheim, CA
- 178,000 SF Lease – Lambert Avenue Brea, CA
- 121,000 SF Sale – San Gorgorio, Riversides, CA
- 54,000 SF Lease – Geary Street, Santa Fe Springs, CA
- 48,000 SF Sale – Fee Ana / Miraloma Placentia, CA
- 45,000 SF Lease – Kellogg Drive Anaheim, CA
- 37,000 SF Lease – Trader Center Drive Riverside, CA
- 31,000 SF Sale – Norwalk Santa Fe Spring, CA
- 28,000 SF Sale – Crouse, Corona, CA
- 27,000 SF Sale – Citation, Corona, CA
Partial Client List
- Kilroy Realty
- Trico Realty
- Hager Pacific Properties
- Richardson Properties
- Allied Exhaust
- Raymond Handling Solutions
- Illinois Tool Works
- DMG
- Limbach Company LP
Location Advice
- Sometimes, It’s Time to Part Ways November 6, 2026A longtime client and I parted ways today. It was time. We both knew it. You read my columns each week. I dispense market updates, advice to owners and occupants of industrial buildings, and occasionally a bit of brokerage nuance. But I still make my living brokering commercial real estate. There is no safety net, no salary, […]
- What the Nation’s Top Industrial Developers and an Economist See Ahead October 30, 2026I returned from New York City last week, where commercial real estate professionals from across the country gathered to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, commonly known as SIOR. As promised, I wanted to share several observations from the conference that I believe will influence commercial real estate decisions over […]
- Renew or Relocate October 23, 2026I’m penning this from my hotel room overlooking Midtown Manhattan. It’s time for the semiannual SIOR conference, and this year marks the 85th anniversary of our organization. I’m particularly excited because my first book, The SEQUENCE, will be featured today in a main-stage interview. More on the conference, and what some of the best and brightest in […]
- Delivering the Keys, Commercial Real Estate Decisions that Shape Family Business Success October 16, 2026In 1984, when I began my career in commercial real estate, I could scarcely have imagined the journey that awaited me. Thousands of buildings toured, hundreds of transactions completed, countless relationships formed, and more lessons learned than I could possibly enumerate. Now, 42 years later, I’ve decided to write another book, and this one is directed […]
- The NEW Normal? October 9, 2026“We’re going to see interest rates below 10% for a prolonged period, and maybe even down into the 8% range.” I remember hearing predictions like this early in my commercial real estate career and thinking they were fanciful. After all, I entered the business in 1984, when the bank prime rate averaged just over 12% […]
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