LACERA Lands $200MM Slot in Energy Capital Partners’ $8.1 Billion Power Fund, Adds $75MM Whitman Peterson Co-Investment
The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association squeezed a $200 million commitment into Energy Capital Partners' oversubscribed sixth flagship fund just as it...
SoCal Apartment Sales Surge 36% to $4.3 Billion as Rents Stall and Cap Rates Rise
Southern California apartment investors drove third-quarter sales to $4.32 billion even as rents stalled and cap rates climbed, a sign the region is...
Digital Realty Targets $3B for Open-End Hyperscale Data Center Fund as Arkansas Teachers Commits $100MM
Digital Realty is courting roughly $3 billion in cornerstone capital for a permanent, core-plus vehicle built to own stabilized North American hyperscale data...
New York State Common Retirement Fund Buys Blackstone’s 520,000 SQFT Owens & Minor Warehouse in Ontario for $143MM
New York's state pension fund has taken a fully leased Inland Empire West distribution building off Blackstone's hands through a separate account, betting...
Orange County Apartment Sales Nearly Triple to $1.1 Billion as Cap Rates Fall to 4.6%
Orange County’s apartment market posted a nearly threefold jump in quarterly sales volume and the region’s strongest rent growth in the third quarter,...
Greenlaw Partners Buys 346,000 SQFT 100 Bayview in Newport Beach From Granite Properties for $98MM
Newport Beach-based Greenlaw Partners has bought 100 Bayview, the twin-tower, 346,335-square-foot office campus above the Back Bay, from Granite Properties for $98 million,...
Former North Hollywood Kmart Turned Tesla Hub Hits Market With $4.9MM NOI and 122,000 SQFT Building
The owner of 13005 Sherman Way is marketing the 122,423-square-foot former Kmart, now one of Tesla's largest sales, service, delivery and collision centers...
Hines Buys Northwood Space-Leased 180,000 SQFT Torrance Headquarters From Lift Partners for $76.5MM
County records show Hines' flagship U.S. Property Partners fund is the buyer behind Lift Partners' sale of 18500 Crenshaw Boulevard, paying an implied...
Orange County Office Sales Surge 74% to $586MM in Q3, Busiest Quarter Since 2021
Investors spent $586 million on Orange County office buildings across eight deals in the third quarter, the most in a single quarter since...
Tejon Ranch Co., Dedeaux Properties Tilt Walls on 510,000 SQFT Industrial Building at Tejon Ranch Commerce Center
Tejon Ranch Co. and Dedeaux Properties have raised the concrete walls of a 510,385-square-foot Class A warehouse at Tejon Ranch Commerce Center in...
Lowe, Real Capital Solutions Unveil The Valley, Recasting 1.1MM SQFT Former Westfield Mission Valley as Transit-Oriented Village in San Diego
Three years after buying the aging Westfield Mission Valley from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Lowe and Real Capital Solutions will publicly debut the rebranded The Valley...
Southern California AI Tenants Occupy 2.7MM SQFT as Defense Demand Pushes Orange County Into Industrial, JLL Finds
A 2026 JLL study finds artificial intelligence companies occupy 2.1 million square feet in Los Angeles and Orange County and another 600,000 in...
SoCal Apartment Sales Surge 36% to $4.3 Billion as Rents Stall and Cap Rates Rise
Southern California apartment investors drove third-quarter sales to $4.32 billion even as rents stalled and cap rates climbed, a sign the region is...
Orange County Apartment Sales Nearly Triple to $1.1 Billion as Cap Rates Fall to 4.6%
Orange County’s apartment market posted a nearly threefold jump in quarterly sales volume and the region’s strongest rent growth in the third quarter,...
Orange County Office Sales Surge 74% to $586MM in Q3, Busiest Quarter Since 2021
Investors spent $586 million on Orange County office buildings across eight deals in the third quarter, the most in a single quarter since...
California Exports Climb 15% to $17.7 Billion as Diesel Costs at LA, Long Beach Ports Surge 61%
California shipped $17.696 billion in goods abroad in August, a 15.2 percent annual gain led by electronics and farm exports, Beacon Economics reports,...
Los Angeles Fire Rebuild Puts AI Plan Check to the Test as Developers Automate the Front End
The rebuilding of Los Angeles neighborhoods destroyed in the January 2025 wildfires has become Southern California's largest live test of AI in the...
San Diego Retail Vacancy Holds Near 5% as Big-Box Leases Meet a Thin Pipeline
San Diego's retail market absorbed a modest vacancy uptick through mid-2026, but a run of large national-tenant commitments and a nearly nonexistent construction...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Pacific Industrial Taps Link Logistics Veteran Bud Pharris as CEO to Drive Western U.S. Expansion
Long Beach-based developer Pacific Industrial has hired Bud Pharris, who ran Blackstone-owned Link Logistics' nine-market West Region, as chief executive officer to steer...
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
Toys R Us Lands Three Southern California Stores in Cerritos, Long Beach and Camarillo as WHP Global Rolls Out 120 US Locations
Toys R Us is planting holiday stores at Los Cerritos Center, the Long Beach Towne Center and Camarillo Premium Outlets, giving Southern California...
Longtime Family Owner Sells 29-Unit Empire Apartments in Anaheim for $8.5MM in All-Cash 1031 Play
A family that held Anaheim's Empire Apartments for more than three decades sold the 29-unit, townhome-heavy complex to a large property management company...
Envista Holdings Leads Orange County’s Q3 Office Leasing With 118,000 SQFT Relocation to Irvine Spectrum
Dental technology company Envista Holdings has committed to 117,802 square feet across three Irvine Company buildings on Barranca Parkway and Technology Drive, the...
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
Santa Fe Irrigation District Buys 17,000 SQFT Solana Beach Office Building for $9.6MM
Santa Fe Irrigation District paid $9.6MM, or $553 per square foot, for a 17,365-square-foot office building at 140 Marine View Ave. in Solana...
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
Vacant 60,000 SQFT Otay Mesa Industrial Building Hits the Market at $13.4MM in San Diego
A newly vacated 59,505-square-foot industrial building at 8753 Kerns Street has come to market in San Diego's Otay Mesa submarket at an asking...
$9MM Life Company Refinance Secured for 55,000 SQFT Vail Ranch Town Square Office in Temecula
Gantry secures a $9MM life company loan for Temecula’s 55,000 SF Vail Ranch Town Square, retiring CMBS debt with a cash-out fixed-rate refinance.
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
Southern California’s Building Operations Power a $53.6BN Economy Supporting 334,000 Jobs, BOMA Study Finds
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International sizes Southern California's building-operations economy, finding that Greater Los Angeles ranks among the nation's largest markets...
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....
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...
Orange County Apartment Sales Nearly Triple to $1.1 Billion as Cap Rates Fall to 4.6%
Orange County’s apartment market posted a nearly threefold jump in quarterly sales volume and the region’s strongest rent growth in the third quarter,...
Greenlaw Partners Buys 346,000 SQFT 100 Bayview in Newport Beach From Granite Properties for $98MM
Newport Beach-based Greenlaw Partners has bought 100 Bayview, the twin-tower, 346,335-square-foot office campus above the Back Bay, from Granite Properties for $98 million,...
Former North Hollywood Kmart Turned Tesla Hub Hits Market With $4.9MM NOI and 122,000 SQFT Building
The owner of 13005 Sherman Way is marketing the 122,423-square-foot former Kmart, now one of Tesla's largest sales, service, delivery and collision centers...
Hines Buys Northwood Space-Leased 180,000 SQFT Torrance Headquarters From Lift Partners for $76.5MM
County records show Hines' flagship U.S. Property Partners fund is the buyer behind Lift Partners' sale of 18500 Crenshaw Boulevard, paying an implied...
Orange County Office Sales Surge 74% to $586MM in Q3, Busiest Quarter Since 2021
Investors spent $586 million on Orange County office buildings across eight deals in the third quarter, the most in a single quarter since...
Tejon Ranch Co., Dedeaux Properties Tilt Walls on 510,000 SQFT Industrial Building at Tejon Ranch Commerce Center
Tejon Ranch Co. and Dedeaux Properties have raised the concrete walls of a 510,385-square-foot Class A warehouse at Tejon Ranch Commerce Center in...
Lowe, Real Capital Solutions Unveil The Valley, Recasting 1.1MM SQFT Former Westfield Mission Valley as Transit-Oriented Village in San Diego
Three years after buying the aging Westfield Mission Valley from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Lowe and Real Capital Solutions will publicly debut the rebranded The Valley...
Bixby Capital Management Refinances Six-Property Portfolio, Including Newport Beach HQ, With $110MM Fixed-Rate Loan
Bixby Capital Management has refinanced a six-property, fully leased portfolio, pairing its own Quail Street headquarters in Newport Beach with five single-tenant industrial...
