Ontario International Airport Lands $4.1MM FAA Grant, Lifting Electric Ground Fleet Spend to $5.5MM
The Ontario International Airport Authority secured its largest-ever Voluntary Airport Low Emissions grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, a $4.1 million award that...
Amazon Leases 222,000 SQFT at Gillespie Field iPark in El Cajon, San Diego’s Largest Industrial Lease of 2Q 2026
Amazon has leased 222,293 square feet at Chesnut Properties' Gillespie Field iPark in El Cajon, the largest industrial lease signed in San Diego...
San Diego Office Pipeline Thins to 649,000 SQFT as Alexandria’s UTC Tower Leads Construction
San Diego's office construction pipeline has narrowed to five projects totaling roughly 649,000 square feet, dominated by Alexandria Real Estate Equities' 466,592-square-foot UTC...
Wood Investments Opens 150,000 SQFT Target at Plaza de Perris in Perris
Wood Investments Companies has re-anchored its Plaza de Perris center in Riverside County by demolishing a closed movie theater and replacing it with...
KB Home Buys 53,000 SQFT Escondido Office Building for $10.1MM
National homebuilder KB Home has acquired a 53,001-square-foot office building at 613 W Valley Pkwy in Escondido from Baker Enterprises for $10.09 million,...
San Diego Retail Vacancy Holds at 4.5% as Investment Values Climb 13% in Q2 2026
San Diego's retail market absorbed another quarter of soft tenant demand in the second quarter of 2026 without giving up ground on vacancy,...
LA County Commercial Sales Reach $2.10B in July as Multifamily and Retail Capture the Capital
Los Angeles County's commercial investment market pushed 7.25 million square feet across the closing table for $2.10 billion in July 2026, with multifamily...
Lincoln and Strategic Value Partners Complete 500,000 SQFT Bluffs at Playa Vista Redevelopment, Land 57,000 SQFT in Leases
Lincoln Property Company and Strategic Value Partners have wrapped a top-to-bottom redevelopment of the 500,000-square-foot Bluffs at Playa Vista office campus, drawing more...
Los Angeles Reopens Historic Vision Theatre in Leimert Park After Nearly $40MM, 15-Year Restoration
After a decade and a half of stop-and-start construction, the City of Los Angeles has reopened Leimert Park's Vision Theatre, betting nearly $40...
First-Citizens Bank Sells Foreclosed 13,000 SQFT Robertson Boulevard Retail Building for $13MM in West Hollywood
The lender that seized one of Robertson Boulevard's best-known retail buildings through foreclosure has resold the West Hollywood property for nearly $13 million...
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria Cuts Affordable Housing Reviews to Nine Days, Ties Production Surge to Stacked Reforms
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, now president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is making the case that setting aggressive permit-review deadlines and...
GID Investment Management Buys 305-Unit Windsor Mission Valley in San Diego for $148.5MM
The Mission Valley acquisition ranked as the largest San Diego apartment sale of the second quarter and set the county's high-water mark for...
San Diego Office Pipeline Thins to 649,000 SQFT as Alexandria’s UTC Tower Leads Construction
San Diego's office construction pipeline has narrowed to five projects totaling roughly 649,000 square feet, dominated by Alexandria Real Estate Equities' 466,592-square-foot UTC...
San Diego Retail Vacancy Holds at 4.5% as Investment Values Climb 13% in Q2 2026
San Diego's retail market absorbed another quarter of soft tenant demand in the second quarter of 2026 without giving up ground on vacancy,...
LA County Commercial Sales Reach $2.10B in July as Multifamily and Retail Capture the Capital
Los Angeles County's commercial investment market pushed 7.25 million square feet across the closing table for $2.10 billion in July 2026, with multifamily...
Los Angeles Reopens Historic Vision Theatre in Leimert Park After Nearly $40MM, 15-Year Restoration
After a decade and a half of stop-and-start construction, the City of Los Angeles has reopened Leimert Park's Vision Theatre, betting nearly $40...
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria Cuts Affordable Housing Reviews to Nine Days, Ties Production Surge to Stacked Reforms
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, now president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is making the case that setting aggressive permit-review deadlines and...
Construction Materials Prices Flat in July, But Lumber and Steel Signal More Increases Ahead
Construction input prices barely moved in July as a temporary drop in fuel costs offset continued gains in lumber and steel, leaving materials...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
LA County Commercial Sales Reach $2.10B in July as Multifamily and Retail Capture the Capital
Los Angeles County's commercial investment market pushed 7.25 million square feet across the closing table for $2.10 billion in July 2026, with multifamily...
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...
Fallas Family’s 88-Unit Metropolitan in Downtown LA Heads to Receivership as $32MM CMBS Loan Hits Foreclosure
A Los Angeles judge has handed control of the historic 88-unit Metropolitan on Broadway to a receiver while lender Natixis and special servicer...
Shopoff Lands Buena Park Approval for 281 Homes, Sells Newport Beach Site to Shea Homes for 23 Condos
Irvine-based Shopoff Realty Investments is converting two aging Orange County industrial properties into 304 new homes, securing unanimous Buena Park approval for a...
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...
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...
Amazon Leases 222,000 SQFT at Gillespie Field iPark in El Cajon, San Diego’s Largest Industrial Lease of 2Q 2026
Amazon has leased 222,293 square feet at Chesnut Properties' Gillespie Field iPark in El Cajon, the largest industrial lease signed in San Diego...
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...
120-Townhome Ponto Plan Heads to Coastal Commission as Carlsbad Park Campaign Makes Its Last Stand
A pending application to build 120 rental townhomes on an 11-acre coastal parcel in south Carlsbad is advancing toward an October California Coastal...
Ontario International Airport Lands $4.1MM FAA Grant, Lifting Electric Ground Fleet Spend to $5.5MM
The Ontario International Airport Authority secured its largest-ever Voluntary Airport Low Emissions grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, a $4.1 million award that...
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...
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...
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...
Xenon Investments Buys 21-Unit Beverly Glen Apartments for $8.65MM in West Los Angeles
A 21-unit apartment property on South Beverly Glen Boulevard changed hands for $8.65 million after nearly three decades under a single owner, underscoring...
Northmarq Arranges $6.1MM Refinancing for Three Van Nuys Industrial Properties Totaling 43,000 SQFT
Northmarq secured $6.1 million in fixed-rate permanent financing for a three-property flex and showroom industrial portfolio in Van Nuys, holding a life insurance...
Los Angeles Investor Acquires Fully Leased 9,000 SQFT Retail Building for $6.56MM in Temecula
A private Los Angeles investor has completed a $6.56 million 1031 exchange into a fully leased, drive-thru-anchored retail building along one of Temecula's...
Construction Materials Prices Flat in July, But Lumber and Steel Signal More Increases Ahead
Construction input prices barely moved in July as a temporary drop in fuel costs offset continued gains in lumber and steel, leaving materials...
AJR Capital Group Acquires Kellogg Square Neighborhood Retail Center in Goleta for $11.3MM
AJR Capital Group has acquired Kellogg Square, a fully leased Old Town Goleta shopping center, for $11.3 million from an ownership group that...
Port of San Diego Greenlights Skycharger’s 70-Port Electric Truck Hub in National City
The Port of San Diego Board of Port Commissioners certified the environmental review and authorized a coastal permit for Skycharger's proposed zero-emission truck...
Cello Jeans Leases 75,000 SQFT Industrial Building in Commerce to Consolidate LA Denim Operations
Cello Jeans, a Los Angeles denim label founded in 2007, has signed a long-term lease for 75,035 square feet of warehouse space in...
Shopoff Lands Buena Park Approval for 281 Homes, Sells Newport Beach Site to Shea Homes for 23 Condos
Irvine-based Shopoff Realty Investments is converting two aging Orange County industrial properties into 304 new homes, securing unanimous Buena Park approval for a...
