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AECIndustry NewsLos Angeles

LA Metro’s $7.9B Eastside E Line Extension Faces Roughly $4B Funding Gap as Federal Environmental Decision Nears

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has lined up more than $3.9 billion for its nine-mile E Line extension from East Los...

Claros Affiliate Sets Dec. 3 Foreclosure Sale of Pimco, Witkoff’s 249-Unit Park Santa Monica as Debt Climbs to $513.7MM

A Claros Mortgage Trust affiliate has scheduled a Dec. 3 trustee's sale of The Park Santa Monica, the 249-unit luxury tower at 500...

CRP Breaks Ground on $72MM, 97-Unit Affordable Hillcrest Hall in San Diego

CRP Affordable Housing and Community Development has started work on Hillcrest Hall, an eight-story family rental building at University Avenue and Herbert Street,...

Equitable Shops $48MM Note on Clarion’s Netflix-Leased 95,000 SQFT Hollywood Campus at 817-827 Vine

Equitable has hired Cushman & Wakefield to sell the $48 million loan on Clarion Partners' two-building, 95,000-square-foot creative office campus at 817-827 Vine...

Chemehuevi Tribe, AO Chart 50-Year Plan to Remake 34,000-Acre Lake Havasu Reservation Beyond Gaming

Working with Orange-based planning firm AO, the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe has laid out a 50-year master plan that would layer a basket-inspired town...

Sky Harbour Signs Van Nuys Airport Ground Leases for $133MM Private Hangar Campuses Totaling About 300,000 SQFT

Sky Harbour Group has signed two ground leases at Van Nuys Airport that carry about $133 million in planned investment, clearing the way...

Treasury Names Part of Irvine Business Complex an Opportunity Zone, Opening Tax-Advantaged Path for Investors Near John Wayne Airport

A section of the Irvine Business Complex between Main Street and Barranca Parkway has been designated a federal Opportunity Zone in Treasury's new...

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Disneyland Quietly Files Permits for Hillside Retaining Wall, New Structure Beside DCA’s Golden Vine House

Disneyland Resort has filed two confidential building permits with the City of Anaheim under a newly created address next to Disney California Adventure's...

CommercialFinanceIndustry NewsSan Diego

Lender-Facilitated Sale Puts 82,000 SQFT La Place Court Office Campus in Carlsbad on the Block for $11MM, Less Than Half Its 2022 Price

A two-building, 81,522-square-foot office property inside the Carlsbad Research Center is being marketed for $11 million in a lender-facilitated sale, a price that...

AECIndustry NewsLos AngelesResidential

Tenant Lawsuits Test SB 1211 as L.A. Landlords Turn Apartment Parking Into ADUs

Los Angeles apartment owners using SB 1211 to convert garages and parking stalls into accessory dwelling units are running into tenant lawsuits, including...

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California Voters Sink Prop 40 Billionaire Tax as Real Estate Donors Join $333MM Opposition

The Associated Press called Proposition 40 defeated on Nov. 9, ending a union-backed bid to levy a one-time 5 percent tax on the...

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The Heights at Ponte Vista Features Four Move In Ready Elevated Townhomes 

The homes embrace coastal living and multi-generational flexibility for modern Southern California lifestyles New community alert! RC Homes, the California homebuilder known for...

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AECFeaturedIndustry ContributorsResidential

America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word

While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...

California Voters Sink Prop 40 Billionaire Tax as Real Estate Donors Join $333MM Opposition

The Associated Press called Proposition 40 defeated on Nov. 9, ending a union-backed bid to levy a one-time 5 percent tax on the...

San Diego Office Vacancy Hits Record 23.7% in Yardi Matrix Data as Asking Rents Slide 4.3%

Yardi Matrix data through September put San Diego's office vacancy at an all-time high of 23.7 percent, fourth-highest among major U.S. markets, while...

San Diego Large-Block Tenant Demand Triples Since 2024 as Leases Over 100,000 SQFT Slow, JLL Reports

Companies hunting for at least 100,000 square feet of office or lab space in San Diego County have tripled since early 2024, according...

Macerich’s 2026 Playbook Shows the Mall Market Splitting Into Trophies and Holdouts

Macerich's third-quarter results read like a field guide to the 2026 mall market, with the REIT buying malls again, swapping 6.6 percent mortgage...

One Data Center Campus, One Golf Course: Putting Data Center Water and Power Demand in Perspective

A new First American analysis translates data centers' resource demands into familiar terms, from 27 days of New York City's water supply to...

Southern California Commercial Real Estate News

Southern California Sheds 6.7MM SQFT of Office Stock as California Inventory Shrinks While Texas and Seattle Grow

Southern California led a statewide contraction in office stock over the past year, with Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County together losing...

Bridge Logistics Properties Pays $53.7MM for XPO-Leased 21-Acre Truck Terminal in Santa Fe Springs

Bridge Logistics Properties paid about $53.7 million for a 21.3-acre cross-dock truck terminal at 12903 Lakeland Road in Santa Fe Springs, fully leased...

Southern California Sheds 6.7MM SQFT of Office Stock as California Inventory Shrinks While Texas and Seattle Grow

Southern California led a statewide contraction in office stock over the past year, with Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County together losing...

Prologis Holds 96.8% Occupancy in Southern California as Record Port Volumes Test Inland Empire Recovery

Prologis ended the third quarter with its 128.7 million-square-foot Southern California portfolio nearly full, betting that record September cargo at the Ports of...

Southern California Sheds 6.7MM SQFT of Office Stock as California Inventory Shrinks While Texas and Seattle Grow

Southern California led a statewide contraction in office stock over the past year, with Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County together losing...

San Diego Weighs $4.2B Midway Rising Deal That Trades Ground Rent for 2,000 Affordable Homes on 48.5-Acre Sports Arena Site

San Diego's Independent Budget Analyst has put a price on the city's side of the Midway Rising deal ahead of a Land Use...

Inland Empire Industrial Rents Drop Below $1 as Vacancy Hits 9.9% and Absorption Turns Negative

Inland Empire industrial asking rents slipped below $1 per square foot as vacancy edged up to 9.9 percent and move-outs in the eastern...

Prologis Holds 96.8% Occupancy in Southern California as Record Port Volumes Test Inland Empire Recovery

Prologis ended the third quarter with its 128.7 million-square-foot Southern California portfolio nearly full, betting that record September cargo at the Ports of...

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AECFeaturedIndustry ContributorsResidential

America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word

While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...

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Salad Days Are Over: Why Protein and Caffeine Are Winning the Restaurant Real Estate Race

By John Cumbelich October 5, 2026 – True Food Kitchen files for bankruptcy. Is anyone shocked by the news that yet another salad...

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CommercialIndustry ContributorsLeasingRetail

Dinked: Have We Hit Peak Pickleball?

The Picklr’s Chapter 11 filing, driven by lease guarantees on roughly 40 franchise locations, may be the first sign that indoor pickleball’s real...

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The First Footprints in the Snow

AI's hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who's in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...

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McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins

Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.

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FeaturedFinanceIndustry ContributorsIndustry NewsLos Angeles

Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. Bonta

David Ellison says he'll pull Paramount out of California—and maybe sell the storied Melrose lot—unless a dozen attorneys general drop their antitrust suit....

Global Mutual’s Botsford Global Partners Buys Acacia’s 77-Unit Legacy at Westglen in Glendale, Assuming $18.8MM Fannie Mae Loan

Global Mutual's fledgling Botsford Global Partners platform has closed on Acacia Capital's 77-unit Legacy at Westglen in Glendale, putting $9.25 million in equity...

1031 Buyer Pays $10.2MM for Montbleau & Associates’ 37K SQFT Headquarters in San Diego

A private investor trading out of a Los Angeles apartment property bought the Southeast San Diego building from a Chicago net-lease fund for...

ASBP Acquires 67,000 SQFT Kendall Plaza in San Bernardino for $16.75MM in Off-Market Deal

An entity called ASBP LLC paid $16.75 million for Kendall Plaza, an unanchored, roughly 66,700-square-foot retail center on 13.58 acres beside Interstate 215...

Condo Developer Buys 19,000 SQFT Koreatown Site Entitled for 210 Micro-Units From 730 Vermont Venture for $3.88MM

A private investor with a condominium track record paid $3.88 million for a fully entitled, already excavated Koreatown parcel at 730 S. Vermont...

Haggerty Family Trusts Sell 48-Unit Kamala Park Apartments in Oxnard for $10.92MM After Nearly 50 Years

Trusts tied to the Haggerty family have sold a three-building, 48-unit 1960s apartment complex in Oxnard's Kamala Park neighborhood to an undisclosed buyer...

America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word

While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...

California Voters Sink Prop 40 Billionaire Tax as Real Estate Donors Join $333MM Opposition

The Associated Press called Proposition 40 defeated on Nov. 9, ending a union-backed bid to levy a one-time 5 percent tax on the...

Ross Stores Signs 10-Year, 250,000 SQFT Expansion at Wonderful Logistics Center in Shafter, Pushing Footprint to 4.6MM SQFT

Ross Stores has committed to another decade at Wonderful Logistics Center, signing a new 10-year lease that will grow its building at 3501...