Senior Vice President | Principal · Lee & Associates
Meet Dan Scodeller — Your Inland Empire Industrial Broker
One market, four property types, and a straight answer whether or not it leads to a transaction.
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I am Dan Scodeller, Senior Vice President and Principal at Lee & Associates out of our Newport Beach office. I specialize in one thing: Inland Empire industrial real estate. Warehouse and distribution buildings, industrial outdoor storage yards, flex space, and big-box distribution, across Riverside and San Bernardino counties. That is the whole practice.
The narrowness is deliberate. The Inland Empire is the largest industrial market in the United States and it does not behave like one market. As of Q2 2026, the west side — Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Chino, Jurupa Valley — is running about 5.9% vacancy at $1.11/SF/mo NNN. The east side — San Bernardino, Riverside, Moreno Valley, Perris, Redlands — is running about 9.0% at $0.94/SF/mo NNN. Those are different markets with different tenants, different buyers, and different answers to the same question. A broker covering all of Southern California cannot hold that resolution. I would rather know fourteen cities properly than forty superficially.
Who I represent
Owners and sellers who need to know what a building or a yard is actually worth today, and whether this is the moment to sell, lease, or hold. Buyers and investors looking for Inland Empire industrial product, including the off-market and pre-market deals that never reach a listing platform. Tenants who need space and want someone on their side of the table rather than the landlord's. And landlords who need their buildings leased to credit tenants at defensible rates.
Working all four sides is what keeps the market read honest. You cannot credibly tell an owner where rents are clearing if you never sit across from a landlord negotiating for a tenant. The information flows both directions, and it makes the advice better on both.
How I work
Real data, cited. Every figure on this site carries a source and a quarter, and the underlying data is refreshed quarterly. When I tell you rents are $0.98/SF/mo NNN and down roughly 4.8% year over year, you can see exactly where that comes from. Commercial real estate has a long tradition of confident assertions with nothing behind them. I would rather show the work.
Direct, without pressure. If the answer to "should I sell?" is "not yet, and here is why," that is the answer you get. If your building is worth less than you hoped, I will tell you before you find out from a buyer. I would rather lose a listing than take one at a price that will not clear — a property sitting stale on the market costs the owner far more than an honest conversation would have.
Specific, not general. Market averages are a starting point. What matters is your clear height, your loading, your power service, your zoning, your lease term, and the buyer pool for your specific size range in your specific submarket. That is the work, and it is where the value is.
Why industrial outdoor storage matters to me
IOS is the part of this market I am most often called about, and it is where owners most frequently leave money behind. Yards are routinely valued as an afterthought — a discount to the building on the site — when in the current market they are frequently the more valuable asset. Supply is capped by policy across the Inland Empire, institutional capital has formed around the segment, and yards are trading near a 6.5% cap rate as their own asset class.
If you own a building on a large parcel with surplus land, there is a good chance you own two assets and are being quoted on one. That single observation has changed the outcome for more owners I have worked with than anything else I do.
Let's talk
Whether you own an Inland Empire industrial property, want to buy one, or need space, the starting point is the same conversation: what are you actually trying to accomplish, and what do the numbers say about it. That conversation costs nothing and carries no obligation.
Call or text me at 949-444-3697, email dscodeller@lee-associates.com, or send a message. If you want a number before you talk to anyone, start with the free value estimator.
Questions about working with Dan
What areas does Dan Scodeller cover?
Riverside County and San Bernardino County — the Inland Empire — and nothing else. That includes Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Chino, Jurupa Valley, Rialto, Bloomington, San Bernardino, Riverside, Moreno Valley, Perris, Redlands, Corona, Colton, plus the surrounding submarkets. The office is with Lee & Associates in Newport Beach, but the coverage area is the Inland Empire specifically. Brokers who cover all of Southern California cannot know any one submarket the way this market demands.
Does Dan work with tenants as well as owners?
Yes — owners and sellers, buyers and investors, tenants, and landlords. Each side gets exclusive representation on a given transaction. Working all four sides across different deals is what keeps the market read accurate: you cannot advise an owner well on where rents are actually clearing if you never sit on the tenant side of a negotiation.
What size properties does Dan handle?
Everything from roughly 5,000-square-foot multi-tenant units up through million-square-foot big-box distribution buildings, and industrial outdoor storage yards from about one acre up. The Inland Empire is unusual in that both ends of that spectrum are active at once — small-bay is chronically undersupplied while large blocks sit at 9.0% vacancy on the east side. The advice differs completely by size.
What does it cost to work with Dan?
Nothing upfront, in any scenario. Broker opinions of value, market analyses, and site searches are provided at no cost and no obligation. On sale and lease transactions, commissions are paid at closing and are typically paid by the property owner — including on tenant representation assignments, where the landlord pays the tenant broker. Nothing is billed hourly and there are no retainers.
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