California Voters Sink Prop 40 Billionaire Tax as Real Estate Donors Join $333MM Opposition
The Associated Press called Proposition 40 defeated on Nov. 9, ending a union-backed bid to levy a one-time 5 percent tax on the...
Ross Stores Signs 10-Year, 250,000 SQFT Expansion at Wonderful Logistics Center in Shafter, Pushing Footprint to 4.6MM SQFT
Ross Stores has committed to another decade at Wonderful Logistics Center, signing a new 10-year lease that will grow its building at 3501...
Douglas Emmett Posts Biggest Office Occupancy Gain Since 2012 as Interest Costs Squeeze Q3 Cash Flow
Douglas Emmett lifted office occupancy to 76.7 percent in the third quarter of 2026, its largest quarterly gain since 2012, after signing 224...
Coastal Commission Grants OCTA 10-Year Permit for 1,223-Foot San Clemente Seawall, Requires 690,000 Cubic Yards of Sand
The California Coastal Commission voted 11-0 to give the Orange County Transportation Authority a 10-year permit to armor its coastal rail line through...
City Ventures Sells Entitled 62-Townhome Yorba Linda Site to Beazer Homes for $21.8MM, Capping $35.3MM Run of Land Deals
Irvine-based City Ventures has sold three entitled infill sites in Santee, Santa Ana and Yorba Linda to Lennar, Century Communities and Beazer Homes...
San Diego Office Vacancy Hits Record 23.7% in Yardi Matrix Data as Asking Rents Slide 4.3%
Yardi Matrix data through September put San Diego's office vacancy at an all-time high of 23.7 percent, fourth-highest among major U.S. markets, while...
The Gildred Companies Pays $16.1MM for Catesgarb Holdings’ 76,000 SQFT La Mirada Business Park in Vista
The Gildred Companies, a San Diego real estate family whose roots trace to the 1929 Fox Theater building downtown, paid $16.125 million in...
San Diego Large-Block Tenant Demand Triples Since 2024 as Leases Over 100,000 SQFT Slow, JLL Reports
Companies hunting for at least 100,000 square feet of office or lab space in San Diego County have tripled since early 2024, according...
Macerich’s 2026 Playbook Shows the Mall Market Splitting Into Trophies and Holdouts
Macerich's third-quarter results read like a field guide to the 2026 mall market, with the REIT buying malls again, swapping 6.6 percent mortgage...
One Data Center Campus, One Golf Course: Putting Data Center Water and Power Demand in Perspective
A new First American analysis translates data centers' resource demands into familiar terms, from 27 days of New York City's water supply to...
USC Casden Forecast Sees SoCal Rents Rising Through 2029 as San Diego, Inland Empire Building Pays Off
The 2026 USC Lusk Center Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast projects apartment rents climbing across all five Southern California markets through 2029, but...
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...
America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word
While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...
California Voters Sink Prop 40 Billionaire Tax as Real Estate Donors Join $333MM Opposition
The Associated Press called Proposition 40 defeated on Nov. 9, ending a union-backed bid to levy a one-time 5 percent tax on the...
San Diego Office Vacancy Hits Record 23.7% in Yardi Matrix Data as Asking Rents Slide 4.3%
Yardi Matrix data through September put San Diego's office vacancy at an all-time high of 23.7 percent, fourth-highest among major U.S. markets, while...
San Diego Large-Block Tenant Demand Triples Since 2024 as Leases Over 100,000 SQFT Slow, JLL Reports
Companies hunting for at least 100,000 square feet of office or lab space in San Diego County have tripled since early 2024, according...
Macerich’s 2026 Playbook Shows the Mall Market Splitting Into Trophies and Holdouts
Macerich's third-quarter results read like a field guide to the 2026 mall market, with the REIT buying malls again, swapping 6.6 percent mortgage...
One Data Center Campus, One Golf Course: Putting Data Center Water and Power Demand in Perspective
A new First American analysis translates data centers' resource demands into familiar terms, from 27 days of New York City's water supply to...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Global Mutual’s Botsford Global Partners Buys Acacia’s 77-Unit Legacy at Westglen in Glendale, Assuming $18.8MM Fannie Mae Loan
Global Mutual's fledgling Botsford Global Partners platform has closed on Acacia Capital's 77-unit Legacy at Westglen in Glendale, putting $9.25 million in equity...
Southern California Sheds 6.7MM SQFT of Office Stock as California Inventory Shrinks While Texas and Seattle Grow
Southern California led a statewide contraction in office stock over the past year, with Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County together losing...
Bridge Logistics Properties Pays $53.7MM for XPO-Leased 21-Acre Truck Terminal in Santa Fe Springs
Bridge Logistics Properties paid about $53.7 million for a 21.3-acre cross-dock truck terminal at 12903 Lakeland Road in Santa Fe Springs, fully leased...
California Voters Sink Prop 40 Billionaire Tax as Real Estate Donors Join $333MM Opposition
The Associated Press called Proposition 40 defeated on Nov. 9, ending a union-backed bid to levy a one-time 5 percent tax on the...
Southern California Sheds 6.7MM SQFT of Office Stock as California Inventory Shrinks While Texas and Seattle Grow
Southern California led a statewide contraction in office stock over the past year, with Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County together losing...
Prologis Holds 96.8% Occupancy in Southern California as Record Port Volumes Test Inland Empire Recovery
Prologis ended the third quarter with its 128.7 million-square-foot Southern California portfolio nearly full, betting that record September cargo at the Ports of...
City Ventures Sells Entitled 62-Townhome Yorba Linda Site to Beazer Homes for $21.8MM, Capping $35.3MM Run of Land Deals
Irvine-based City Ventures has sold three entitled infill sites in Santee, Santa Ana and Yorba Linda to Lennar, Century Communities and Beazer Homes...
Southern California Sheds 6.7MM SQFT of Office Stock as California Inventory Shrinks While Texas and Seattle Grow
Southern California led a statewide contraction in office stock over the past year, with Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County together losing...
San Diego Weighs $4.2B Midway Rising Deal That Trades Ground Rent for 2,000 Affordable Homes on 48.5-Acre Sports Arena Site
San Diego's Independent Budget Analyst has put a price on the city's side of the Midway Rising deal ahead of a Land Use...
ASBP Acquires 67,000 SQFT Kendall Plaza in San Bernardino for $16.75MM in Off-Market Deal
An entity called ASBP LLC paid $16.75 million for Kendall Plaza, an unanchored, roughly 66,700-square-foot retail center on 13.58 acres beside Interstate 215...
Inland Empire Industrial Rents Drop Below $1 as Vacancy Hits 9.9% and Absorption Turns Negative
Inland Empire industrial asking rents slipped below $1 per square foot as vacancy edged up to 9.9 percent and move-outs in the eastern...
Inland Empire Renewal Wave Tops 3.6MM SQFT as Landlords Cut Rents to Keep Warehouse Tenants
Inland Empire warehouse tenants that held off on real estate decisions through a stretch of tariff swings and economic uncertainty have reached their...
America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word
While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...
Salad Days Are Over: Why Protein and Caffeine Are Winning the Restaurant Real Estate Race
By John Cumbelich October 5, 2026 – True Food Kitchen files for bankruptcy. Is anyone shocked by the news that yet another salad...
Dinked: Have We Hit Peak Pickleball?
The Picklr’s Chapter 11 filing, driven by lease guarantees on roughly 40 franchise locations, may be the first sign that indoor pickleball’s real...
The First Footprints in the Snow
AI's hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who's in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. Bonta
David Ellison says he'll pull Paramount out of California—and maybe sell the storied Melrose lot—unless a dozen attorneys general drop their antitrust suit....
San Diego Office Vacancy Hits Record 23.7% in Yardi Matrix Data as Asking Rents Slide 4.3%
Yardi Matrix data through September put San Diego's office vacancy at an all-time high of 23.7 percent, fourth-highest among major U.S. markets, while...
The Gildred Companies Pays $16.1MM for Catesgarb Holdings’ 76,000 SQFT La Mirada Business Park in Vista
The Gildred Companies, a San Diego real estate family whose roots trace to the 1929 Fox Theater building downtown, paid $16.125 million in...
San Diego Large-Block Tenant Demand Triples Since 2024 as Leases Over 100,000 SQFT Slow, JLL Reports
Companies hunting for at least 100,000 square feet of office or lab space in San Diego County have tripled since early 2024, according...
Macerich’s 2026 Playbook Shows the Mall Market Splitting Into Trophies and Holdouts
Macerich's third-quarter results read like a field guide to the 2026 mall market, with the REIT buying malls again, swapping 6.6 percent mortgage...
One Data Center Campus, One Golf Course: Putting Data Center Water and Power Demand in Perspective
A new First American analysis translates data centers' resource demands into familiar terms, from 27 days of New York City's water supply to...
The Registry Ranks: SoCal’s Best Lab Submarkets for a Biotech Signing a Lease Right Now
San Diego lab vacancy just hit a new cycle high and Los Angeles is one of the tightest lab markets in the country....
Haworth Leaves Financial Core for 15,000 SQFT Showroom at California Market Center in DTLA’s Fashion District
Office furniture and architectural solutions maker Haworth will move its Southern California showroom and workplace out of Downtown Los Angeles' Financial Core and...
Transwestern Investments Taps Sterling Bay’s Rod Richerson to Lead Healthcare and Life Sciences Strategy
Transwestern Investments has hired Sterling Bay Managing Principal Rod Richerson as executive managing director of healthcare and life sciences, handing the San Diego-based...
