The potential impacts around Lyft's, Uber's and Pinterest's already filed IPOs, and others have started driving buyer and seller behaviors, and while regional inventories increase, San Francisco sellers hold back.

“Landlords typically prefer to see demand before increasing rents and last year was a record year for demand,” says CBRE's George Cauffman.

Most investors are focusing on the capital gains tax benefits, but there are several other benefits as well.

At the Regional Plan Association's Annual Assembly, Eric Garcetti's advice to New York was to be bold, fail forward and embrace capabilities.