Hudson Pacific Doubles Down on West LA as Hollywood Stages Hold at 96% and Quixote Losses Narrow
Hudson Pacific Properties is concentrating its Los Angeles leasing push on a recovering West Los Angeles market while its Quixote studio restructuring narrows...
Olson Company Buys 120,000 SQFT Monterey Park Office Campus for $24.85MM, Plans Residential Redevelopment
Homebuilder The Olson Company has paid $24.85 million for a two-building office campus in Monterey Park once occupied by Blue Shield of California,...
Downtown Women’s Center’s 98-Unit Rosa’s Place Tops Out at 501 East 5th Street in Downtown Los Angeles
Construction of Rosa's Place, a seven-story development that will deliver 97 permanent supportive housing units for women exiting homelessness at 501 East 5th...
Peninsula Land & Capital Buys 56,000 SQFT The Station in El Segundo for $26.85MM, 13% Below Seller’s 2021 Basis
A Palo Alto investment firm best known for Silicon Valley office and R&D holdings has pushed into the South Bay, paying $26.85 million...
DLR Group Adds San Diego Lab Specialist McFarlane Architects to Deepen Life Science Practice
The global design firm DLR Group has acquired McFarlane Architects, a San Diego science and technology specialist, giving the 1,800-person employee-owned firm an...
Alexandria Captures 1.7x Its Market Share of San Diego Leasing as 427,000 SQFT Bristol Myers Squibb Hub Delivers
Alexandria Real Estate Equities leased nearly twice its market share in San Diego during the second quarter and handed Bristol Myers Squibb a...
Macerich Lands Flagship Zara and 142,000 SQFT Dick’s House of Sport at Los Cerritos Center
Macerich is rebuilding Los Cerritos Center around two anchors it says are already lifting traffic and rents, a second flagship Zara due in...
Shea Homes Acquires 1-Acre Uptown Newport Site for 23 Condos as Chip Fab Lease Pushes Master Plan’s Final 690 Units to 2030
Shopoff Realty Investments has sold another entitled pad inside its 25-acre Uptown Newport master plan in Newport Beach, this time to Shea Homes...
Shopoff Lands Buena Park Approvals for 281-Home Community on Former Amway Campus at 5600 Beach Boulevard
Shopoff Realty Investments has cleared its final entitlement hurdle in Buena Park, winning City Council approval to demolish Amway's 370,000-square-foot industrial campus and...
Kalanick’s Atoms Opens a Second Front in Los Angeles’ Air-Taxi Land Grab
Joby Aviation has hired Travis Kalanick's Atoms to acquire and build its air-taxi stations in California, giving the company a capitalized ground-up developer...
CIM Group Pays $81.3 Million for 166-Unit Domain WeHo Apartments in West Hollywood, a Discount to Its 2019 Price
CIM Group, teaming with Japan’s Hulic Co., Ltd., has purchased Domain WeHo, a 166-unit luxury apartment community on Santa Monica Boulevard, for $81.3...
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...
Alexandria Captures 1.7x Its Market Share of San Diego Leasing as 427,000 SQFT Bristol Myers Squibb Hub Delivers
Alexandria Real Estate Equities leased nearly twice its market share in San Diego during the second quarter and handed Bristol Myers Squibb a...
Kalanick’s Atoms Opens a Second Front in Los Angeles’ Air-Taxi Land Grab
Joby Aviation has hired Travis Kalanick's Atoms to acquire and build its air-taxi stations in California, giving the company a capitalized ground-up developer...
Federal Housing Law Curbs Wall Street Landlords and Funds Conversions Across Southern California
The sweeping federal housing law signed this summer takes direct aim at the institutional landlords that have concentrated in Southern California’s more affordable...
Alexandria Clears Just $170MM of $2.9B Disposition Target as San Diego Impairments Signal What Sells Next
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has completed $170.4 million of the $2.9 billion in asset sales it needs to pull off this year, and...
Universal Music Signs 51,000 SQFT at Kilroy’s Santa Monica Media Center as Southern California Demand Rebuilds
Kilroy Realty pointed to a Universal Music Group lease that filled its Santa Monica Media Center and to firming demand from Beverly Hills...
Southern California Hotel Sales Surge 57% to $990MM in First Half of 2026, Led by Los Angeles
Southern California hotel transactions climbed to 60 in the first six months of 2026 while dollar volume jumped 57 percent to $989.6 million,...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hudson Pacific Doubles Down on West LA as Hollywood Stages Hold at 96% and Quixote Losses Narrow
Hudson Pacific Properties is concentrating its Los Angeles leasing push on a recovering West Los Angeles market while its Quixote studio restructuring narrows...
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...
Shea Homes Acquires 1-Acre Uptown Newport Site for 23 Condos as Chip Fab Lease Pushes Master Plan’s Final 690 Units to 2030
Shopoff Realty Investments has sold another entitled pad inside its 25-acre Uptown Newport master plan in Newport Beach, this time to Shea Homes...
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...
DLR Group Adds San Diego Lab Specialist McFarlane Architects to Deepen Life Science Practice
The global design firm DLR Group has acquired McFarlane Architects, a San Diego science and technology specialist, giving the 1,800-person employee-owned firm an...
Quantum-Si Signs 10-Year, 54,000 SQFT Lease at Sterling Bay and Harrison Street’s Pacific Center in San Diego’s Sorrento Mesa
Protein-sequencing company Quantum-Si has committed to 54,374 square feet at Pacific Center in Sorrento Mesa under a 10-year lease that carries 20 months...
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...
BlackRock Acquires Camden’s 11-Property, 3,620-Unit Southern California Portfolio for $1.625B
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has taken control of 3,620 apartments across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in a $1.625 billion...
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: 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...
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...
BlackRock Acquires Camden’s 11-Property, 3,620-Unit Southern California Portfolio for $1.625B
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has taken control of 3,620 apartments across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in a $1.625 billion...
Acadia Realty Trust Acquires 4,000 SQFT Jacquemus-Leased Melrose Building for $29MM in West Hollywood
Acadia Realty Trust buys the Jacquemus-leased retail building at 8800-8804 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood for $29 million.
Federal Housing Law Curbs Wall Street Landlords and Funds Conversions Across Southern California
The sweeping federal housing law signed this summer takes direct aim at the institutional landlords that have concentrated in Southern California’s more affordable...
San Diego’s $19 Hospitality Minimum Wage Squeezes 103 Hotels as State Rate Climbs to $17.40
San Diego's $19 hospitality minimum wage hits 103 hotels and major venues as California's statewide rate climbs to $17.40 in 2027.
Vietnam’s Hasaki Lands 7,000 SQFT Cudahy Lease for First U.S. Store, With Anaheim Location Next
Hasaki, the Alibaba-backed beauty and personal care chain that operates more than 300 stores across Vietnam, has taken 7,000 square feet at an...
Walter N. Marks Clears Final EIR for 42-Story, 348-Unit Mirabel Tower on LA’s Miracle Mile
Los Angeles City Planning has released the Final Environmental Impact Report for Mirabel, clearing the way for an Aug. 27 hearing on the...
Faris Lee Lists Dollar Tree-Anchored Ironwood Plaza, 56,000 SQFT, for $13.2MM in Moreno Valley
A 1987-vintage neighborhood center anchored by an investment-grade Dollar Tree has hit the Inland Empire market at a price below replacement cost, wagering...
Empire Circle, a 54,000 SQFT Multi-Tenant Industrial Campus in San Bernardino, Hits Market at $11.3MM
A three-building, fully leased small-bay industrial campus in San Bernardino has come to market at $11.3 million, testing investor appetite for the Inland...
