IKEA Opens South Bay Doors July 22 with Grand Opening Celebration at San Diego’s Southland Plaza
IKEA will cut the ribbon on its South Bay plan and order point at Southland Plaza Shopping Center on July 22 with a...
Landes Group Affiliate Buys Studio City Bank of America Building for $12.72MM, 26% Below Its 2014 Price
A Dallas-based net-lease investor has acquired the long-standing Bank of America branch at 12223 Ventura Boulevard in Studio City for $12.72 million, closing...
Sapient Bioanalytics Extends and Expands to 13,000 SQFT at BioMed Realty’s Wateridge Circle Campus in Sorrento Mesa
Multi-omics services company Sapient Bioanalytics has committed to 13,370 square feet at 10421 Wateridge Circle in Sorrento Mesa, staying in the BioMed Realty...
Private Investor Acquires 34,000 SQFT Vista Industrial Portfolio for $9.1MM
A private investor has paid $9.1 million for a trio of small-bay industrial buildings on Cades Way in Vista, doubling down on the...
San Diego Planning Commission Advances 588-Acre Starlight Solar Project in Boulevard After Residents Extract Safety Concessions
A vocal group of Boulevard residents forced amendments to the Haagen Company’s proposed 588-acre Starlight Solar Project before the San Diego County Planning...
Brookwood Financial Sells 219,000 SQFT Ventana Office Campus in Carlsbad for $24.5MM
Brookwood Financial Partners has offloaded Ventana, a three-building Class A office campus in Carlsbad’s coastal submarket, for $24.5 million while the property sat...
Climatec Relocates to 25,000 SQFT Office in San Diego’s Scripps Ranch, Growing Its Footprint
Building technology and energy-services firm Climatec has relocated to 25,266 square feet of office space in San Diego’s Scripps Ranch, expanding its footprint....
Carlsmed Expands into 25,000 SQFT Class A Office in Carlsbad
Medical technology firm Carlsmed has expanded into 24,839 square feet of Class A office space in Carlsbad, a rare growth story in San...
AMLI Plans 975-Unit Second Act at 100 West Walnut, Razing Parsons’ Former Pasadena Headquarters
Weeks after Parsons Corporation’s lease on its former Old Pasadena headquarters ran out, AMLI Residential has moved to demolish the 12-story tower it...
324-Unit Northwoods Apartments in Upland Lands $34MM Freddie Mac Refinance
A 324-unit garden-style community in Upland that pairs unsubsidized workforce housing with deed-restricted affordable units has locked 10 years of fixed-rate, full-term interest-only...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
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...
Sapient Bioanalytics Extends and Expands to 13,000 SQFT at BioMed Realty’s Wateridge Circle Campus in Sorrento Mesa
Multi-omics services company Sapient Bioanalytics has committed to 13,370 square feet at 10421 Wateridge Circle in Sorrento Mesa, staying in the BioMed Realty...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
California’s 14 November Ballot Measures Put $11.25B Housing Bond, CEQA Reform and a Billionaire Tax Before Voters
California's Nov. 3 ballot carries 14 measures on housing bonds, a billionaire tax, CEQA reform and property taxes reshaping real estate.
Nonprofit n-Lorem Foundation Takes 23,000 SQFT at Alloy Properties’ Elements Campus in Sorrento Mesa
The n-Lorem Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Ionis Pharmaceuticals founder Stanley Crooke to develop free custom genetic medicines for patients whose diseases affect...
Sanguine Biosciences Leases 7,500 SQFT at Governor Pointe, the Smallest Suite in a 141,214-SQFT Lab Conversion
Sanguine Biosciences, the Los Angeles-area clinical research company that collects biological specimens from patients in their homes, has leased 7,500 square feet at...
Orange Turns Vacant Storefronts Into Revenue With Weekly Fees and $5,000 Fines
The City of Orange has advanced a maintenance-and-security ordinance that converts its inventory of empty commercial buildings from a code-enforcement headache into a...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Landes Group Affiliate Buys Studio City Bank of America Building for $12.72MM, 26% Below Its 2014 Price
A Dallas-based net-lease investor has acquired the long-standing Bank of America branch at 12223 Ventura Boulevard in Studio City for $12.72 million, closing...
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...
Reuben Brothers Seize 190-Key West Hollywood Edition From Witkoff in $211MM Deed-in-Lieu
British billionaires Simon and David Reuben have taken ownership of the West Hollywood Edition on the Sunset Strip, closing out a four-year debt...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
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...
Huntington Beach Adopts Court-Ordered Housing Element Zoning for 13,000 Units After $170,000 in Fines
After exhausting its appeals at the state and federal level and watching the meter run on monthly penalties, the Huntington Beach City Council...
IKEA Opens South Bay Doors July 22 with Grand Opening Celebration at San Diego’s Southland Plaza
IKEA will cut the ribbon on its South Bay plan and order point at Southland Plaza Shopping Center on July 22 with a...
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...
324-Unit Northwoods Apartments in Upland Lands $34MM Freddie Mac Refinance
A 324-unit garden-style community in Upland that pairs unsubsidized workforce housing with deed-restricted affordable units has locked 10 years of fixed-rate, full-term interest-only...
Kimco Realty Lists Corona Home Depot at Corona Hills Plaza for $29.9MM at 5.35% Cap Rate
Kimco Realty has tapped CBRE to market a corporate-leased Home Depot anchoring the 489,151-square-foot Corona Hills Plaza in Corona, betting that a blue-chip...
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...
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...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
Suffolk Taps 30-Year Healthcare Veteran to Run Newport Beach Office as Orange County Hospital Pipeline Tops $5B
Suffolk has hired healthcare construction veteran Bobby Eagar as senior vice president and Orange County division manager, a move that puts three decades...
California’s 14 November Ballot Measures Put $11.25B Housing Bond, CEQA Reform and a Billionaire Tax Before Voters
California's Nov. 3 ballot carries 14 measures on housing bonds, a billionaire tax, CEQA reform and property taxes reshaping real estate.
Hollywood Burbank Airport’s $1.3B Elevate BUR Terminal Enters Home Stretch Ahead of October Opening
With crews shifting from steel and structure to systems and interior finishes, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority is now three months from opening a...
San Diego Clears Tri Pointe Homes’ 5,130-Home Southwest Village on 490 Acres in Otay Mesa Over Landowner Objections
San Diego has approved one of the largest master-planned communities in its development pipeline, greenlighting a nearly 490-acre village near the U.S.-Mexico border...
Port of San Diego Opens Public Review on 27-Acre Topgolf and Waterfront Park at East Harbor Island
The Port of San Diego has released a Draft Environmental Impact Report for a proposed redevelopment of East Harbor Island that pairs a...
Orange County Music & Dance Acquires 25,000 SQFT Irvine Building for $10.8MM to Double Campus Footprint
Orange County Music & Dance has closed on a 24,670-square-foot educational building at 17872 Cowan in Irvine, doubling the nonprofit performing arts school’s...
Mesa Biotech Renews 26,000 SQFT Office Lease in San Diego’s Eastgate Submarket
Diagnostics company Mesa Biotech has renewed 26,036 square feet of office space in San Diego’s Eastgate submarket, the region’s standout performer for positive...
