Jackson Square Properties Acquires 544-Unit Shores in Marina del Rey for $170MM
Jackson Square Properties has closed on the Shores, a 544-unit waterfront apartment community in Marina del Rey, in one of Los Angeles County's...
Japan’s APA Hotel Acquires 105-Room Kimpton La Peer for $63MM in West Hollywood
Tokyo-based APA Hotel's purchase of the boutique Kimpton La Peer marks the Japanese chain's first major U.S. acquisition under a five-year plan to...
68-Unit Brea Grove Residences Sells for $27.25MM at $400,735 Per Unit
The 68-unit Brea Grove Residences apartment community traded for $27.25 million, or $400,735 per unit, the richest per-unit price among Orange County's disclosed...
Los Angeles and San Diego Crack Top 20 for U.S. Apartment Absorption in 2026
Los Angeles and San Diego both landed among the nation's 20 strongest apartment markets for net absorption in the first half of 2026,...
TikTok Mandates Five-Day Office Return for US Staff, a Test for Culver City
TikTok's decision to end hybrid schedules for most of its U.S. workforce beginning in September lands squarely on Culver City, where the video...
cityLAB-UCLA Funds Three Teams to Build Missing-Middle Starter Homes on Small Los Angeles Lots
cityLAB-UCLA has selected three development teams for construction financing and named dozens of design winners in its Small Lots, Big Impacts competition, an...
Los Angeles Developer Lands Note on Topaz Tower, an Entitled 246-Unit San Pedro Conversion
A private Los Angeles residential developer has taken control of the debt behind Topaz Tower, clearing its path to complete one of the...
The Olson Co. Buys Entitled Monterey Park Office Campus from BH Properties for $24.8MM, Clearing the Way for 159 Townhomes
The Olson Co. has acquired a vacant 120,191-square-foot office campus in Monterey Park from BH Properties for $24.8 million, taking control of a...
SDSU and PMB Unveil 250-Residence, 295,000 SQFT Senior Living Community at Mission Valley Campus in San Diego
San Diego State University and a team of private developers have detailed plans for a seven-story senior living community on the university's Mission...
Fully Leased 96,000 SQFT Terra Nova Plaza Trades for $30.4MM in Chula Vista
A global investment manager has sold Terra Nova Plaza, the Dick's Sporting Goods- and Floor & Decor-anchored retail block in Chula Vista, for...
L.A. County Housing Posts Rare Gains as ADUs Hit Record, but USC Lusk Report Warns Affordability Crisis Runs Deep
For the first time in years, USC's annual survey of Los Angeles County housing points to record ADU output, rising rental affordability and...
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...
Los Angeles and San Diego Crack Top 20 for U.S. Apartment Absorption in 2026
Los Angeles and San Diego both landed among the nation's 20 strongest apartment markets for net absorption in the first half of 2026,...
TikTok Mandates Five-Day Office Return for US Staff, a Test for Culver City
TikTok's decision to end hybrid schedules for most of its U.S. workforce beginning in September lands squarely on Culver City, where the video...
cityLAB-UCLA Funds Three Teams to Build Missing-Middle Starter Homes on Small Los Angeles Lots
cityLAB-UCLA has selected three development teams for construction financing and named dozens of design winners in its Small Lots, Big Impacts competition, an...
L.A. County Housing Posts Rare Gains as ADUs Hit Record, but USC Lusk Report Warns Affordability Crisis Runs Deep
For the first time in years, USC's annual survey of Los Angeles County housing points to record ADU output, rising rental affordability and...
CalSTRS Clinches 13.9% Return, Lifts Funded Ratio to 79% as Real Estate Portfolio Regroups
The nation's largest educator pension fund posted its strongest annual investment gain in years, strengthening a long-delayed march toward full funding even as...
Orange County Multifamily Holds Firm as Deliveries Surge and Class C Deals Dominate
Orange County's apartment market absorbed a wave of new supply in the second quarter of 2026 without giving ground on vacancy, even as...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Jackson Square Properties Acquires 544-Unit Shores in Marina del Rey for $170MM
Jackson Square Properties has closed on the Shores, a 544-unit waterfront apartment community in Marina del Rey, in one of Los Angeles County's...
Southern California Retail Dollar Volume Jumps 61.8% to $3.52B in H1 2026 Even as Square Footage Traded Falls 27.7%
Buyers and sellers of Southern California retail property have finally found each other on price, and the result is a first half in...
Nuclear Startup Valar Atomics Leases 513,000 SQFT in Torrance as South Bay Powers LA Industrial Rebound
Valar Atomics, the El Segundo nuclear-energy startup racing to commercialize small modular reactors, has signed a 512,500-square-foot lease in Torrance, ranking among the...
68-Unit Brea Grove Residences Sells for $27.25MM at $400,735 Per Unit
The 68-unit Brea Grove Residences apartment community traded for $27.25 million, or $400,735 per unit, the richest per-unit price among Orange County's disclosed...
Southern California Retail Dollar Volume Jumps 61.8% to $3.52B in H1 2026 Even as Square Footage Traded Falls 27.7%
Buyers and sellers of Southern California retail property have finally found each other on price, and the result is a first half in...
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...
Los Angeles and San Diego Crack Top 20 for U.S. Apartment Absorption in 2026
Los Angeles and San Diego both landed among the nation's 20 strongest apartment markets for net absorption in the first half of 2026,...
Apple Renews 197,000 SQFT in San Diego’s Rancho Bernardo, Anchoring the Quarter’s Largest Office Lease
Apple’s decision to renew nearly 197,000 square feet at 16620 West Bernardo Drive single-handedly propelled the I-15 Corridor to the top of San...
Orange County and San Diego Lead Southern California Rebound in Summer 2026 Allen Matkins Survey as Multifamily Construction Pulls Back
Southern California’s commercial real estate recovery is broadening across office, industrial, and retail, but a sharp retreat in multifamily construction plans signals that...
BlackRock Lands $566.6MM in Agency Financing for 2,021-Unit Camden Portfolio Slice in Southern California
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has locked in more than half a billion dollars of government-backed debt across seven of the eleven Camden Property Trust...
Southern California Retail Dollar Volume Jumps 61.8% to $3.52B in H1 2026 Even as Square Footage Traded Falls 27.7%
Buyers and sellers of Southern California retail property have finally found each other on price, and the result is a first half in...
EQT Acquires 667,000 SQFT Interchange Logistics Center Portfolio in San Bernardino for $119.5MM from Cabot
Boston-based Cabot Properties has sold a fully specified three-building warehouse portfolio at Interchange Logistics Center to global investment firm EQT, handing the buyer...
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
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...
L.A. County Housing Posts Rare Gains as ADUs Hit Record, but USC Lusk Report Warns Affordability Crisis Runs Deep
For the first time in years, USC's annual survey of Los Angeles County housing points to record ADU output, rising rental affordability and...
BlackRock Lands $566.6MM in Agency Financing for 2,021-Unit Camden Portfolio Slice in Southern California
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has locked in more than half a billion dollars of government-backed debt across seven of the eleven Camden Property Trust...
Escondido’s Kit Carson Park Ice Deal Stalls as Lease Vote Slips and Opposition Organizes
Two months after Escondido leaders unanimously endorsed exploring a privately funded ice complex at Kit Carson Park, the lease they promised to weigh...
CalSTRS Clinches 13.9% Return, Lifts Funded Ratio to 79% as Real Estate Portfolio Regroups
The nation's largest educator pension fund posted its strongest annual investment gain in years, strengthening a long-delayed march toward full funding even as...
Dana Point Harbor Redevelopment Stalls as OC Supervisors, Developer Clash Over $700MM Hotel Leases
The redevelopment of Dana Point Harbor has stalled as Orange County supervisors and Dana Point Harbor Partners spar over the hotel, commercial-core and...
Orange County Multifamily Holds Firm as Deliveries Surge and Class C Deals Dominate
Orange County's apartment market absorbed a wave of new supply in the second quarter of 2026 without giving ground on vacancy, even as...
SDSU, PMB and Pillar Properties Unveil 250-Unit Senior Living Community at Mission Valley Campus
San Diego State University and a team of San Diego-area developers have unveiled plans for a 250-residence senior living community at the SDSU...
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
