StepStone Group Leases 66,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s La Jolla Square, Anchoring a 91% Leased Portfolio
Global private markets investment firm StepStone Group has committed to 65,600 square feet at Irvine Company's La Jolla Square, a marquee financial-services deal...
Costco Acquires 195,000 SQFT Costco Plaza in Alhambra from Kimco for $58.9MM
Kimco Realty has sold the six-building Costco Plaza in Alhambra to its anchor tenant, Costco Wholesale, in the center's first-ever ownership change since...
Coastal Commission Clears $1B De Anza Natural Plan to Triple Mission Bay Wetlands in San Diego
The California Coastal Commission's approval clears the last major regulatory hurdle for De Anza Natural, an amendment to the Mission Bay Park Master...
Travelers Club Luggage Buys 151,000 SQFT Santa Fe Springs Distribution Center from Ares for $51MM
Travelers Club Luggage has acquired the Class A GLP Mid-Counties Distribution Center in Santa Fe Springs from Ares Management for $51.3 million, an...
Port of LA Nears 1 Million TEUs in Second-Busiest July as Importers Race Tariff Deadlines
The nation's busiest container gateway moved 960,464 twenty-foot equivalent units in July, just shy of a second consecutive million-container month, even as loaded...
L.A. Permits More Than 8,800 Homes in First Half of 2026, Nearly Tripling Year-Ago Pace as Economic Headwinds Build
A rebound in residential permitting pushed Los Angeles past a full year's worth of housing approvals in just six months, but new research...
Arup Plants First Dedicated San Diego Office at La Jolla Commons, Betting on UTC’s Life-Sciences Pull
After nearly four decades of working in the region without a home base, global engineering firm Arup has opened its first dedicated San...
San Diego County Advances $240MM, 120,000 SQFT Behavioral Health Campus in Midway
San Diego County has pushed its planned Behavioral Health Wellness Campus in the Midway District into the design and construction phase, staking a...
Los Angeles Capital Management Leases 23,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s Westwood Gateway
Quantitative equity manager Los Angeles Capital Management signed a 23,000-square-foot lease at Irvine Company's Westwood Gateway in West Los Angeles, one of the...
Christian Science Organization Lists 62-Unit UCLA-Adjacent Westwood Development Site for $15MM
A campus religious group is offering one of the last unentitled development parcels bordering UCLA, a roughly 25,060-square-foot Westwood site zoned for high-density...
Skanska-Stacy Witbeck JV Lands $1.9B Metro Contract for East San Fernando Valley Light Rail, Pushing Total to $2.43B
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority handed the Skanska-Stacy Witbeck joint venture a second contract to build the East San Fernando Valley...
California’s Rental Housing Bills Reach the Home Stretch, Testing Southern California’s Multifamily Market
A batch of California rental housing bills cleared the Legislature’s August 13 suspense hearings and now advances toward final floor votes, leaving Southern...
Port of LA Nears 1 Million TEUs in Second-Busiest July as Importers Race Tariff Deadlines
The nation's busiest container gateway moved 960,464 twenty-foot equivalent units in July, just shy of a second consecutive million-container month, even as loaded...
L.A. Permits More Than 8,800 Homes in First Half of 2026, Nearly Tripling Year-Ago Pace as Economic Headwinds Build
A rebound in residential permitting pushed Los Angeles past a full year's worth of housing approvals in just six months, but new research...
Orange County Office Tenants Cash In on Concessions as Relocations Outpace Renewals
A Cushman & Wakefield analysis of more than 220 Orange County office relocations found that tenants who move are landing higher-quality buildings, larger...
Southern California Trails Data Center Boom as Capacity Flows to Arizona and Texas
Southern California ranks among the smallest data center markets in the western United States at roughly 355 megawatts, trailing neighboring Phoenix and Las...
Asian Grocers and K-Beauty Drive 2026 Store Openings as LA Leads US Retail Absorption
The retail categories expanding fastest across the country in 2026, from Asian supermarkets to Korean beauty and value-priced variety stores, are concentrated in...
California’s Rental Housing Bills Reach the Home Stretch, Testing Southern California’s Multifamily Market
A batch of California rental housing bills cleared the Legislature’s August 13 suspense hearings and now advances toward final floor votes, leaving Southern...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Costco Acquires 195,000 SQFT Costco Plaza in Alhambra from Kimco for $58.9MM
Kimco Realty has sold the six-building Costco Plaza in Alhambra to its anchor tenant, Costco Wholesale, in the center's first-ever ownership change since...
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...
Divergent Technologies Lands 415,000 SQFT Long Beach Industrial Lease as LA Absorption Hits Four-Year High
Divergent Technologies, the Los Angeles-area advanced-manufacturing company known for 3D-printed vehicle and defense structures, signed one of the largest new industrial leases of...
Blizzard Entertainment Recommits to 235,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s Spectrum Campus as Portfolio Hits 91% Leased
The video game developer behind World of Warcraft and Diablo has renewed its commitment to roughly 234,800 square feet at its longtime Irvine...
Lincoln Property Sells 282,000 SQFT Orange Center Tower for $63MM in Orange, a $29MM Loss
Lincoln Property Company has unloaded the 14-story Orange Center Tower across from Angel Stadium in the City of Orange for $63.1 million, absorbing...
Asana Partners Acquires 63,000 SQFT Crown Valley Center in Laguna Niguel for $20.5MM in First Trade in 57 Years
A grocery-anchored neighborhood center in the heart of South Orange County has changed hands for the first time since it was built in...
StepStone Group Leases 66,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s La Jolla Square, Anchoring a 91% Leased Portfolio
Global private markets investment firm StepStone Group has committed to 65,600 square feet at Irvine Company's La Jolla Square, a marquee financial-services deal...
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...
Orange County and San Diego Lead Southern California Rebound in Summer 2026 Allen Matkins Survey as Multifamily Construction Pulls Back
Southern California’s commercial real estate recovery is broadening across office, industrial, and retail, but a sharp retreat in multifamily construction plans signals that...
Port of LA Nears 1 Million TEUs in Second-Busiest July as Importers Race Tariff Deadlines
The nation's busiest container gateway moved 960,464 twenty-foot equivalent units in July, just shy of a second consecutive million-container month, even as loaded...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Blizzard Entertainment Recommits to 235,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s Spectrum Campus as Portfolio Hits 91% Leased
The video game developer behind World of Warcraft and Diablo has renewed its commitment to roughly 234,800 square feet at its longtime Irvine...
HVN Development Breaks Ground on 77-Unit Affordable Housing Complex at 9038 Reading Ave. in Westchester
HVN Development has started work on a 77-unit, all-affordable apartment building at 9038 S. Reading Avenue, the second of three Westchester projects the...
Los Angeles Advances Developer-Funded Study of Hotel Incentives to Revive Oceanwide Plaza’s Graffiti Towers
The Los Angeles City Council's Economic Development and Jobs Committee has advanced a motion directing the Chief Legislative Analyst to hire consultants, paid...
EQT Real Estate Lands $1.2B Rexford Industrial Portfolio as SoCal REIT Sheds Non-Core Assets
Rexford Industrial Realty has agreed to sell a portfolio of non-core Southern California industrial properties to an affiliate of EQT Real Estate for...
Meta Housing’s 244-Unit Tampa Senior Apartments Clears Approval in LA’s Reseda
Los Angeles planning officials have signed off on Meta Housing Corporation's Tampa Senior Apartments, clearing the way for 244 income-restricted senior units on...
Price Zone Signs 118,000 SQFT Industrial Lease in Commerce
A distributor collapsing three warehouses into one just landed in a submarket where landlords are facing almost no new competition — vacancy near...
Southern California Trails Data Center Boom as Capacity Flows to Arizona and Texas
Southern California ranks among the smallest data center markets in the western United States at roughly 355 megawatts, trailing neighboring Phoenix and Las...
Orange County Office Tenants Cash In on Concessions as Relocations Outpace Renewals
A Cushman & Wakefield analysis of more than 220 Orange County office relocations found that tenants who move are landing higher-quality buildings, larger...