San Diego VC Funding Nears $5B by Midyear as AI Overtakes Life Sciences in Record 2026 Pace
Venture capital is flooding into San Diego startups at a record clip in 2026, but the money is chasing a different kind of...
LA Office Leasing Slides to 2.1MM SQFT in Q2 as Tenants Chase Trophy Space, Cushman & Wakefield Reports
Los Angeles office leasing decelerated sharply in the second quarter of 2026, but a widening divide between premier towers and the broader market...
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...
Tight Vacancy and Class C Bargain Hunting Fuel 25% Jump in Los Angeles Multifamily Deal Flow
Los Angeles County’s apartment market is holding its ground through economic turbulence, with vacancy compressed near multi-year lows and private capital chasing small...
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...
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...
Gensler Research Finds the District, Not the Stadium, Now Drives Fan Decisions Across North America
New research from the Gensler Research Institute, drawn from nearly 6,000 residents across major U.S. and Canadian metros, finds that the neighborhoods built...
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...
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...
Kennedy Wilson and Jamison Form JV to Deliver 4,000 Affordable Units in Los Angeles, Starting With 512-Unit DTLA Office Conversion
Two of Los Angeles real estate’s heaviest hitters are joining forces to attack the city’s housing shortage, pledging roughly 4,000 affordable units through...
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...
San Diego VC Funding Nears $5B by Midyear as AI Overtakes Life Sciences in Record 2026 Pace
Venture capital is flooding into San Diego startups at a record clip in 2026, but the money is chasing a different kind of...
LA Office Leasing Slides to 2.1MM SQFT in Q2 as Tenants Chase Trophy Space, Cushman & Wakefield Reports
Los Angeles office leasing decelerated sharply in the second quarter of 2026, but a widening divide between premier towers and the broader market...
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...
Tight Vacancy and Class C Bargain Hunting Fuel 25% Jump in Los Angeles Multifamily Deal Flow
Los Angeles County’s apartment market is holding its ground through economic turbulence, with vacancy compressed near multi-year lows and private capital chasing small...
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...
Gensler Research Finds the District, Not the Stadium, Now Drives Fan Decisions Across North America
New research from the Gensler Research Institute, drawn from nearly 6,000 residents across major U.S. and Canadian metros, finds that the neighborhoods built...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
LA Office Leasing Slides to 2.1MM SQFT in Q2 as Tenants Chase Trophy Space, Cushman & Wakefield Reports
Los Angeles office leasing decelerated sharply in the second quarter of 2026, but a widening divide between premier towers and the broader market...
CMBS Lender Moves to Take Control of Fallas Family’s 88-Unit Metropolitan Building in Downtown Los Angeles After $32MM Default
A judicial foreclosure action filed this month against the Fallas family’s landmark Metropolitan building at 449 South Broadway has put one of Downtown...
Newly Built 64,000 SQFT Simi Valley Warehouse Lists for $19MM Below Cost as Default Notice Clouds 2680 Westhills Court
A four-year-old, never-occupied industrial building on the 118 Freeway has come to market at $19 million, less than its owner paid in 2022...
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...
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...
Olson Company Lands $35MM Loan to Build 40-Unit Solana Walk Townhomes on Yorba Linda Church Land
The Olson Company has secured construction financing for Solana Walk, a 40-unit townhome community rising on a former Messiah Lutheran Church parking lot...
San Diego VC Funding Nears $5B by Midyear as AI Overtakes Life Sciences in Record 2026 Pace
Venture capital is flooding into San Diego startups at a record clip in 2026, but the money is chasing a different kind of...
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...
San Diego Rides National Lab Rebound as Pfizer’s 230,000 SQFT Torrey View Deal Anchors Recovery
San Diego has landed among the four markets leading the U.S. life sciences real estate recovery, buoyed by the region’s largest lab lease...
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...
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...
BNSF Lands Approval for $4B, 4,500-Acre Barstow International Gateway Rail Complex in San Bernardino County
BNSF Railway cleared its final local hurdle for the Barstow International Gateway, a 4,500-acre integrated rail and transload complex in the High Desert...
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...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
Sunny Skies Terrace Lands 14 Tenants at 12-Acre TAWA Gateway as San Gabriel Retail Hub Reopens
Sunny Skies Terrace lands 14 new food and retail tenants at TAWA Gateway in San Gabriel as Phase One of its redevelopment opens.
48-Condo Valley Village Property at 11925 Kling Sells for $15.9MM to Its Original Developer
A 48-condominium property in Valley Village has changed hands for $15.9 million, with the units individually parceled in a structure that hands the...
LA County Apartment Occupancy Slides to 93.9% as 24,081 Units Flood the Construction Pipeline
Los Angeles County’s apartment market entered 2026 caught between resilient rents and a relentless wave of new supply, with occupancy slipping to its...
Bridgepoint’s $1.39B Kayne Anderson Real Estate Buyout Hands a London Owner One of the California’s Busiest Light-Industrial Buyers
A London-listed private markets firm has agreed to buy Kayne Anderson Real Estate for roughly $1.39 billion, putting a UK owner atop a...
Luxury Retail Wave Reshapes West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip as 8850 Sunset Megaproject Lags
A broker-led leasing push is repopulating Sunset Strip storefronts with apparel and coffee brands even as the corridor’s marquee ground-up developments stall on...
Airtech International Leases 29,000 SQFT Industrial Space at Dix Metals’ Huntington Beach Building
Aerospace composites supplier Airtech International has signed a lease for nearly 30,000 square feet at a Huntington Beach industrial building owned and partly...
California Clinches Nation’s No. 2 GDP Growth at 3.7% in First Quarter
California’s economy grew at a 3.7 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest pace in the country, as a...
Rhino Investments Lists Coachella Valley’s Top-Visited Center, 186,000 SQFT Cathedral City Marketplace, for $35.6MM
Rhino Investments Group has put Cathedral City Marketplace, the Food 4 Less-anchored center that drew more visits than any neighborhood shopping center within...
