Amazon Leases Entire 505,000 SQFT Goodman Commerce Center in Long Beach
The quarter’s largest South Bay lease lands at the former Boeing C-17 site adjacent to Long Beach Airport, anchoring Goodman’s Space Beach logistics...
Heitman Relists 650,000 SQFT Pasarroyo Office Campus in Pasadena Three Years After Foreclosure
The Chicago-based investment manager is testing buyer appetite for the block-sized South Lake Avenue complex after taking back the keys on more than...
3 Industrial Acquires 304,000 SQFT La Mirada Industrial Property for $55MM
The Mid-Cities deal underscores owner-user and private-capital demand for functional Los Angeles bulk space at a meaningful discount to replacement cost. An entity...
Houdini Signs Quarter’s Largest New Orange County Industrial Lease at 2501 E. Orangethorpe Avenue in Fullerton
The Fullerton-based gift basket maker took 229,422 SQFT in its home city as North County reasserted its pull on bulk-distribution users. Gift basket...
Anduril Anchors Q1 With 177,766 SQFT Santa Ana Industrial Lease at Lake Center Campus
The defense contractor’s latest Orange County occupancy underscores the Airport Area’s pivot toward aerospace and advanced manufacturing tenants. Anduril Industries signed the largest...
Global Mutual Lists 21,500 SQFT Triple-Net Retail Asset on Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade for $26.88MM
Three-tenant property anchored by Dodgers Clubhouse, Patagonia, and Wilson Sporting Goods trades at a 6.5 percent cap rate with assumable Morgan Stanley financing...
Morguard Seeks to Convert Office Space Into 36 Residential Units at LA’s Lumina Hollywood, Expanding Tower to 335 Homes
Canadian REIT aims to transform vacant upper-floor offices into housing within the 22-story Sunset Boulevard high-rise, adding a music venue and restaurant at...
MDH Partners Pays $105MM for Chino Distribution Center in 1.6MM-SQFT Nuveen Portfolio Play
The Atlanta firm’s Fund III lands its Inland Empire West “crown jewel” at $256 per square foot, extending a West Coast push that...
Macerich Bets $140MM NOI Lift on Anchor Overhaul and Gen Z-Driven Merchandising Strategy
The Santa Monica-based mall REIT is executing a two-year repositioning that has pushed leasing volume up 85 percent and committed replacements for all...
Bay Area Swallows Q1 Venture Capital as Seattle and Los Angeles Fall Further Behind
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI concentrate $221.1 billion in Northern California while Southern California and the Pacific Northwest scrape single-digit billions in a market...
Mosaic Cuts Ribbon on $56MM Tessera, a 250-Bed Student Housing Tower Steps from USC
The seven-story, transit-oriented project marks the firm’s first ground-up development and largest community to date, arriving as Los Angeles multifamily construction moderates. Mosaic...
Altadena Continues Historic Rebuild with Multiple Home Sales in Encore at La Viña Gated Community
PLC Communities (PLC), the respected Southern California home builder, continues to deliver homes to buyers in the Encore at La Viña gated community...
Macerich Bets $140MM NOI Lift on Anchor Overhaul and Gen Z-Driven Merchandising Strategy
The Santa Monica-based mall REIT is executing a two-year repositioning that has pushed leasing volume up 85 percent and committed replacements for all...
Bay Area Swallows Q1 Venture Capital as Seattle and Los Angeles Fall Further Behind
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI concentrate $221.1 billion in Northern California while Southern California and the Pacific Northwest scrape single-digit billions in a market...
Santa Barbara Industrial Market Holds at 2.7% Vacancy as Rents Edge Down to $1.49 NNN in Q1
Limited construction activity and mixed absorption trends keep supply tight across Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria despite slight softening in rents Along California’s...
California’s AB 2074 Targets Downtown High-Rise Housing with $500MM Revolving Loan Fund
Assemblymember Matt Haney’s Downtown Revitalization Act would mandate by-right residential density near transit in cities of 400,000-plus, directly addressing office-vacancy-driven decline in downtown...
Orange County Industrial Market Posts 31,300 SQFT Absorption as Vacancy Reaches 7.3% in Q1
Submarket divergence, limited construction, and strong preleasing activity point to a gradual stabilization rather than a rapid rebound Orange County’s industrial market entered...
AI Set to Flatten Office Job Growth Through 2030, Pushing U.S. Vacancy to 21.5%, Newmark Finds
A new Newmark research report forecasts that artificial intelligence will moderate office-using employment to near-zero growth over the next five years, reshaping demand...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Amazon Leases Entire 505,000 SQFT Goodman Commerce Center in Long Beach
The quarter’s largest South Bay lease lands at the former Boeing C-17 site adjacent to Long Beach Airport, anchoring Goodman’s Space Beach logistics...
Sony’s Insomniac Games Renews and Expands to 65,000 SQFT at Burbank’s Media Studios Campus
The award-winning video game studio behind Marvel’s Spider-Man deepens its commitment to a campus it has occupied for over two decades. Sony Interactive...
Defense Drone Manufacturer Neros Technologies Subleases 252,000 SQFT Facility in LA’s South Bay
The fast-growing defense startup expands its industrial footprint near its El Segundo headquarters as part of a broader manufacturing scale-up. Neros Technologies, an...
Houdini Signs Quarter’s Largest New Orange County Industrial Lease at 2501 E. Orangethorpe Avenue in Fullerton
The Fullerton-based gift basket maker took 229,422 SQFT in its home city as North County reasserted its pull on bulk-distribution users. Gift basket...
Rancho Mission Viejo Announces 232 New Homes for Village of Rienda Final Phase
Single-family homes in three new all-age neighborhoods from Trumark Homes, Lennar, and Shea Homes coming Fall 2026 Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif. (April 1,...
Orange County Office Availability Falls to Lowest Level Since 2020 as Shrinking Inventory Reshapes the Market
Savills reports a 340-basis-point year-over-year drop in availability and a 4 million-square-foot reduction in office inventory since 2023, while Q1 leasing activity tracks...
California’s AB 2074 Targets Downtown High-Rise Housing with $500MM Revolving Loan Fund
Assemblymember Matt Haney’s Downtown Revitalization Act would mandate by-right residential density near transit in cities of 400,000-plus, directly addressing office-vacancy-driven decline in downtown...
Southern California’s Medical Outpatient Sector Faces Diverging Fortunes as Supply Constraints and Policy Risk Reshape the Market
JLL’s 2026 Medical Outpatient Building Perspective finds Los Angeles locked in a near-zero construction pipeline while San Diego builds modest new inventory, even...
Groundworks Signs Long-Term Lease at Investcorp’s 35,000 SQFT Industrial Facility in San Marcos
Cushman & Wakefield represented landlord Investcorp in securing a full-building user along San Diego County’s SR 78 corridor. Cushman & Wakefield has arranged...
MDH Partners Pays $105MM for Chino Distribution Center in 1.6MM-SQFT Nuveen Portfolio Play
The Atlanta firm’s Fund III lands its Inland Empire West “crown jewel” at $256 per square foot, extending a West Coast push that...
Five Projects Totaling 6.6MM SQFT Advance in Inland Empire Despite Elevated Vacancy
Developers push forward with major industrial construction across the High Desert, Menifee, and Perris submarkets as the region’s 9.4 million-square-foot pipeline takes shape....
AEW Capital Management Acquires Two-Building, 996,000 SQFT Industrial Portfolio in Inland Empire for $110.6MM
The Boston-based investment manager purchased the Riverside and Ontario warehouses from Scuderia Development, adding nearly 1 million square feet of logistics space 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...
Inland Empire Industrial Market Off to Strong Start in 2026 with $381.6MM in Sales, Falling Vacancy, and Positive Absorption
Net absorption reaches 2.8 million square feet in Q1 2026 as vacancy dips 20 basis points quarter-over-quarter, offering early signs of demand stabilization....
LA County Industrial Sales Volume Hits $1.2B as Buyers and Sellers Find Common Ground on Pricing
Quarterly sales volume rises 12.9% quarter-over-quarter as the development pipeline hits its steepest decline since the Great Recession. By J.C. Casillas, Managing Director of...
The Buyer Who Wasn’t There
The record gap between home sellers and buyers reveals a tale of two Americas—Sun Belt markets drowning in oversupply while Northern cities with...
The Kelemen Company Lists 334,800 SQFT Class A Office Complex in Irvine’s Greater Airport Area as Nonperforming Loan Sale
The twin-tower property at 19100-19200 Von Karman Ave., purchased for $106.75 million in 2018, carries a current assessed value of $66.3 million as...
Santa Barbara Industrial Market Holds at 2.7% Vacancy as Rents Edge Down to $1.49 NNN in Q1
Limited construction activity and mixed absorption trends keep supply tight across Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria despite slight softening in rents Along California’s...
Portola Real Estate Partners Buys 37,000 SQFT The Shops at Walnut Hills Plaza in Walnut for $13.5MM
Los Angeles, CA – April 20, 2026 – Progressive Real Estate Partners, a leading Inland Empire, California retail brokerage firm, announced the $13,525,000...
California’s AB 2074 Targets Downtown High-Rise Housing with $500MM Revolving Loan Fund
Assemblymember Matt Haney’s Downtown Revitalization Act would mandate by-right residential density near transit in cities of 400,000-plus, directly addressing office-vacancy-driven decline in downtown...
Orange County Industrial Market Posts 31,300 SQFT Absorption as Vacancy Reaches 7.3% in Q1
Submarket divergence, limited construction, and strong preleasing activity point to a gradual stabilization rather than a rapid rebound Orange County’s industrial market entered...
AI Set to Flatten Office Job Growth Through 2030, Pushing U.S. Vacancy to 21.5%, Newmark Finds
A new Newmark research report forecasts that artificial intelligence will moderate office-using employment to near-zero growth over the next five years, reshaping demand...
Santa Barbara Hospitality Market Posts 63.6% Occupancy, $231.97 ADR in Q1 2026
Leisure-driven demand and limited new supply continue to support pricing growth despite a seasonal dip in occupancy The Santa Barbara hospitality market entered...
Edens Acquires 116,000 SQFT Portion of Long Beach Exchange for $57MM from PGIM and DJM Capital Partners
The deal deepens the Washington, D.C.-based REIT’s commitment to Los Angeles retail, building on a portfolio launched with a $137 million grocery-anchored acquisition...
