Local Family Sells 41-Unit Sundance West Apartments in Costa Mesa for $16.9MM
A local family cashed out of its low-density Costa Mesa apartment community, selling the 41-unit Sundance West Apartment Homes to a value-add investor...
Sony Pictures to Reopen and Restore Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome, Operated by Alamo Drafthouse
Sony Pictures Entertainment will resurrect one of Hollywood’s most recognizable landmarks, pledging to restore the shuttered Cinerama Dome and hand the keys to...
Newport 17th Plaza, Fully Leased 29,000 SQFT Costa Mesa Retail Center, Hits Market for $16.6MM at 6.26% Cap Rate
A fully occupied neighborhood retail center anchored to one of coastal Orange County’s busiest intersections has hit the market at $16.6 million, testing...
Rite Aid-Tied Owner Lists Fully Entitled 147-Unit Affordable Housing Site at Crenshaw and Olympic in Los Angeles
An entity connected to twice-bankrupt drugstore chain Rite Aid is selling a fully entitled, one-acre development site at the northwest corner of Crenshaw...
Villa Samoa, 46-Unit Anaheim Apartment Community, Trades for $12.3MM in Value-Add Play
A 46-unit, single-story apartment community in West Anaheim that stayed in the same hands for more than three decades has changed owners in...
Billy G. Mills Manor Lands $28.9MM HUD Refinance, Preserving 102 Affordable Units Near USC in Los Angeles
Watt Capital Developers recapitalized a fully subsidized community near USC with a HUD/FHA loan timed to close alongside a 20-year Section 8 contract...
Jamison Properties Sells 111,000 SQFT Signal Hill Town Center for $12MM, 27% Below Asking, to West Covina Investor
Jamison Properties has closed the sale of the two-building Signal Hill Town Center office complex for $12.03 million, roughly 27 percent below its...
Bakersfield Investor Group Buys 85,000 SQFT Lumberjack Square Retail Center for $11.7MM, 22% Below Asking
A local partnership closed on the fully leased Lumberjack Square shopping center in Bakersfield for $11.7 million, roughly $3.4 million under the price...
Prologis Data Center Starts Reach $2.1 Billion as Power Pipeline Climbs to 5.8 Gigawatts
Prologis is rapidly scaling two businesses born from its logistics platform — data centers and energy — with data center development already exceeding...
Meta Housing Delivers 301-Unit Affordable Community The Alcove to Anchor Warner Center 2035 Vision in Woodland Hills
Meta Housing Corporation is betting that the next chapter of Los Angeles’ affordable housing story gets written in the suburbs, opening the first...
Rockpoint Paid $66.25MM for 97-Unit Wilshire Margot in Westwood, a Third Below Its Defaulted Debt
Newly reviewed public records put a number on Rockpoint’s previously undisclosed acquisition of the distressed Wilshire Margot apartment tower in Westwood, showing the...
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...
Sony Pictures to Reopen and Restore Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome, Operated by Alamo Drafthouse
Sony Pictures Entertainment will resurrect one of Hollywood’s most recognizable landmarks, pledging to restore the shuttered Cinerama Dome and hand the keys to...
Prologis Data Center Starts Reach $2.1 Billion as Power Pipeline Climbs to 5.8 Gigawatts
Prologis is rapidly scaling two businesses born from its logistics platform — data centers and energy — with data center development already exceeding...
Milhaus Merges with Sares Regis Group Residential to Form 50,000-Unit Multifamily Platform, Moves to Acquire Broadshore Capital
Indianapolis-based Milhaus and Newport Beach’s SRG Residential have completed a merger that combines a Midwestern developer with a national apartment manager, and the...
CEQA Overhaul Measure Lands 73% Support in New PPIC Poll, Handing California Developers an Early Tailwind
A new statewide survey shows commanding, cross-partisan support for a November ballot measure that would impose hard deadlines on California’s landmark environmental review...
Prologis Says Southern California Industrial Market Has Bottomed as Inland Empire Leads Recovery
Prologis told investors that Southern California, the nation’s largest and most closely watched industrial market, has bottomed and moved into early recovery, with...
California Sues Costa Mesa, Ridgecrest and Calexico in Five-City Housing Element Crackdown
California’s housing regulators dragged three Southern California cities into court over long-overdue housing plans, part of a five-city enforcement sweep that puts local...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Sony Pictures to Reopen and Restore Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome, Operated by Alamo Drafthouse
Sony Pictures Entertainment will resurrect one of Hollywood’s most recognizable landmarks, pledging to restore the shuttered Cinerama Dome and hand the keys to...
Wellpointe Unveils $2B, 3,458-Unit “Viva” Affordable Senior Housing Complex at Warner Center in Woodland Hills
Wellpointe is pulling the curtain back on Viva, a four-tower, 100 percent affordable senior housing complex in Woodland Hills that would rank among...
Redwood West and Panattoni Acquire 395,000 SQFT The Pike Waterfront Center in Long Beach for $50MM
Redwood West and Panattoni have purchased The Pike, the open-air lifestyle center on Long Beach’s downtown waterfront, and are lining up a $20...
Local Family Sells 41-Unit Sundance West Apartments in Costa Mesa for $16.9MM
A local family cashed out of its low-density Costa Mesa apartment community, selling the 41-unit Sundance West Apartment Homes to a value-add investor...
Hoag Clinches 92-Acre Ziggurat Campus in Laguna Niguel for $207MM, Ending Three-Year Federal Sale Saga
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has emerged as the final winner of Orange County’s most contested real estate disposition, acquiring the 1-million-square-foot Chet Holifield...
Melia Homes Wins Approval to Replace Vacant Orange Best Buy With 71 Small-Lot Homes
Irvine-based Melia Homes has secured City of Orange approval to demolish a long-shuttered Best Buy on Tustin Street and build a 71-home small-lot...
WareSpace Grabs 441,000 SQFT Portfolio From Blackstone’s Link Logistics, Planting Flags in San Diego and the Inland Empire
WareSpace closed its first portfolio-level acquisition, paying an undisclosed sum for a five-building, 441,000-square-foot collection sold by Blackstone’s Link Logistics, and pushing its...
San Diego Launches Affordable Housing Preservation Fund With $8.5MM to Stem Loss of Low-Rent Apartments
The San Diego City Council voted unanimously to create an Affordable Housing Preservation Fund and seed it with $8.5 million, handing the San...
Wakeland Housing’s $140MM Becker Affordable Complex Leads Hines’ $1B Riverwalk in San Diego’s Mission Valley
Construction is underway on The Becker, a $140 million affordable apartment complex that will be the first completed building within Hines’ $1 billion...
WareSpace Grabs 441,000 SQFT Portfolio From Blackstone’s Link Logistics, Planting Flags in San Diego and the Inland Empire
WareSpace closed its first portfolio-level acquisition, paying an undisclosed sum for a five-building, 441,000-square-foot collection sold by Blackstone’s Link Logistics, and pushing its...
Southern California Industrial Prices Reset as Sale Values Fall 21.7% and Construction Pipeline Shrinks
Southern California’s industrial market moved toward equilibrium in the second quarter of 2026 as a sharp pullback in construction and steady leasing helped...
Southwest Traders Acquires 229,934 SQFT Gateway at Menifee Industrial Facility for $40.5MM
Temecula-based foodservice distributor Southwest Traders has purchased an industrial building in Menifee and plans to pour an additional $25 million into converting a...
McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal
By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
The Data Center Bargain: What Every Town Should Demand
Free power. Free heat. Clean water. The bargain every town should be demanding. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bed Bath & Boomerang
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) In August 2025, Marcus Lemonis, the executive chairman of Beyond, Inc.—which is to...
McNellis: F*** Real Estate?
Publisher’s Note What began over a decade ago as a series of candid, sharp-witted articles written for The Registry has grown into one of the...
Orange County Industrial Vacancy Rises to 6.1% as Rents Soften
A leasing rebound and contracting pipeline show early signs of stabilization for Orange County’s industrial market. By J.C. Casillas, Managing Director of Research at...
Luxury Label Frank & Eileen Relocates HQ, Leasing 37,000 SQFT at Playa Vista’s Hercules Campus
Luxury shirtmaker Frank & Eileen is decamping from downtown Los Angeles for a 37,453-square-foot headquarters at Playa Vista’s landmarked Hercules Campus, a lease...
Milhaus Merges with Sares Regis Group Residential to Form 50,000-Unit Multifamily Platform, Moves to Acquire Broadshore Capital
Indianapolis-based Milhaus and Newport Beach’s SRG Residential have completed a merger that combines a Midwestern developer with a national apartment manager, and the...
WareSpace Grabs 441,000 SQFT Portfolio From Blackstone’s Link Logistics, Planting Flags in San Diego and the Inland Empire
WareSpace closed its first portfolio-level acquisition, paying an undisclosed sum for a five-building, 441,000-square-foot collection sold by Blackstone’s Link Logistics, and pushing its...
CIM Group Hires Net Lease Veteran Asa Yapa as Managing Director to Expand Single-Tenant Platform
CIM Group has recruited a two-decade net lease specialist from Eastdil Secured to accelerate its push into single-tenant retail and industrial assets, a...
Majestic Asset Management Acquires 158,000 SQFT Single-Tenant Carlsbad Industrial HQ for $45MM
The Carlsbad headquarters building that The Registry flagged when it reached the market in February has changed hands, with Majestic Asset Management paying...
CEQA Overhaul Measure Lands 73% Support in New PPIC Poll, Handing California Developers an Early Tailwind
A new statewide survey shows commanding, cross-partisan support for a November ballot measure that would impose hard deadlines on California’s landmark environmental review...
Imperial County Freezes Data Center Permits for a Full Year, Stalling Rucci’s Aten Road AI Campus
Imperial County supervisors voted unanimously to stretch a temporary data center permitting freeze into a 365-day moratorium, halting a pipeline of energy- and...
7 Brew Drives Into San Diego County as Surf 7B Plots Multi-Stand Southern California Rollout
7 Brew, the fast-scaling Arkansas drive-thru coffee brand backed by Blackstone, is entering San Diego County through regional developer Surf 7B, LLC, which...
