High Touch Properties Inc. dba High Touch Group, is a privately held statewide real estate brokerage company founded by and under the leadership of Linnard Lane.
High Touch's focus as a broker is representing retail, restaurant, and hospitality brands and operators with customer experiential concepts in finding new locations throughout Southern California as well as brokering the acquisition and disposition of existing restaurant and bar businesses on our clients behalf.

High Touch also advises and assists investors, owners, and developers in the acquisition of new retail and mixed use development and reposition opportunities.

High Touch Groups Tenant Representation brokerage and store roll out services focuses on assisting and advising established and emerging "high touch/customer experience" retail and restaurant merchants to grow their brand through strategies customized to their concept and brand.

High Touch delivers a full suite of specialized services to merchants which include - Store Development Strategy, Market Planning & Analysis, Site Selection, Lease & Purchase Negotiations, Business Acquisitions & Dispositions, as well as Turnkey Store Development services.

I take great pride in my track record of finding hidden opportunities and driving value for my clients and partners. Our motto is "Making the best sites available to our clients, not just finding the best of what's available". Building relationships with my clients, partners, team members, agents, tenants, and city agencies have been the foundation of my success.
I have over 30 years of extensive transactional and business experience in retail, mixed use, and restaurant property development, site selection & acquisitions, market strategy & financial analysis, project feasibility, leasing, permits & entitlements, and construction management producing:
- Over 57 new retail, single tenant, and mixed-use developments across California through the entire ground up and redevelopment cycle;
- Negotiated, sourced, and closed in excess of 100 purchase and ground lease contracts worth over $520MM and sold over 44 single and multi-tenant retail properties;
- over 234 leases with national and regional retailers and restaurants for retail, mixed use, urban and suburban developments covering over 600,000 sq. ft.;
- over 139 new stores for retailers and restaurants and directing seven development teams simultaneously (real estate, leasing, legal, design, finance, construction, broker network); supervised 12 division staff and $1M - $20M project budgets.

Professional Affiliations:
- International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC);
- has been an expert witness in the commercial real estate field for arbitration and mediation proceedings;
- guest lecturer: University of Southern California, Lusk Graduate School for Real Estate Studies; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Restaurant Operations
- California real estate broker BRE #00805179.