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...
88-Unit University Gardens Apartments Trades for $16.375MM Near UC Riverside
Kidder Mathews closed the $16.375 million sale of the 88-unit, 1964-built property at a 6.38 percent cap rate, betting that its recently completed...
Owners Move to Raze 142,000 SQFT of Torrance Offices for 335-Unit Westoria Housing Project
The owners of the Torrance Center South office complex are seeking to demolish three aging office buildings at the corner of Torrance Boulevard...
San Diego Apartment Deliveries Jump 42% in 2026 Even as Construction Pipeline Shrinks 21%
A record wave of new apartments reached San Diego renters in the first half of 2026, but with far fewer projects breaking ground,...
Waymo Leases 106,000 SQFT at Chula Vista’s Heritage Industrial Center as It Expands into San Diego
Autonomous-driving company Waymo has leased 105,550 square feet at EQT Exeter's Heritage Industrial Center in Chula Vista, securing a large-format San Diego foothold...
AEG, Archer Aviation to Build Downtown L.A.’s First Vertiport at L.A. Live Ahead of LA28
AEG and Archer Aviation have struck a multiyear partnership to develop downtown Los Angeles' first vertiport at L.A. Live, planting an electric air-taxi...
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...
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...
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...
San Diego Apartment Deliveries Jump 42% in 2026 Even as Construction Pipeline Shrinks 21%
A record wave of new apartments reached San Diego renters in the first half of 2026, but with far fewer projects breaking ground,...
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...
LA and San Diego Anchor Southern California Tech Talent as AI Realignment Sorts the Region
Southern California's tech talent markets diverged sharply in CBRE's latest rankings, with Los Angeles-Orange County and San Diego holding places in the upper...
California’s Renter Majority Stays Cost-Burdened as Los Angeles Rent Growth Stalls at 0.2%
A statewide snapshot compiled in Los Angeles counts more than 16 million California renters and finds nearly 42 percent struggling to afford rent,...
Surge in Aerospace & Defense Funding Drives Record Southern California Leasing Demand
A surge of venture capital flowing into Southern California's aerospace and defense companies is translating directly into industrial real estate, driving record leasing...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
88-Unit University Gardens Apartments Trades for $16.375MM Near UC Riverside
Kidder Mathews closed the $16.375 million sale of the 88-unit, 1964-built property at a 6.38 percent cap rate, betting that its recently completed...
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...
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...
JAMS Renews 31,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s Jamboree Center as Landlord’s Portfolio Hits 91% Leased
JAMS, the largest private provider of arbitration and mediation services in the United States, has renewed its 31,400-square-foot commitment at Irvine Company's Jamboree...
FieldAI Grabs 41,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s 3 Morgan as Robotics Startup Powers Into Irvine Spectrum
FieldAI, a robotics and physical-AI startup valued at roughly $2 billion, has leased 41,400 square feet at Irvine Company's 3 Morgan research-and-development building...
LA and San Diego Anchor Southern California Tech Talent as AI Realignment Sorts the Region
Southern California's tech talent markets diverged sharply in CBRE's latest rankings, with Los Angeles-Orange County and San Diego holding places in the upper...
California’s Renter Majority Stays Cost-Burdened as Los Angeles Rent Growth Stalls at 0.2%
A statewide snapshot compiled in Los Angeles counts more than 16 million California renters and finds nearly 42 percent struggling to afford rent,...
R.D. Olson’s $225MM Dana Point Harbor Hotels Left in Limbo After Second Failed Lease Vote
A ground-lease impasse at the Orange County Board of Supervisors has stalled the two waterfront hotels planned for Dana Point Harbor, pushing their...
Hackman Capital Defaults on $100MM Loan, Sending 182,000 SQFT Former Sony Animation Campus to Auction in Culver City
Hackman Capital Partners' surrender of its long-vacant Culver City creative-office trophy to a Goldman Sachs-backed lender deepens a year of distress that has...
Meridian Property Company Buys 32,052 SQFT Pasadena Medical Office Building for $13.35MM
Meridian Property Company closes on Pasadena’s California Medical Building for $13.35 million and simultaneously locks in a Huntington Health-affiliated tenant for half the...
Poole Properties Sells 13,900 SQFT Corona del Mar Retail Property for $13.7MM in Newport Beach
An 80-year family legacy sold to the highest of more than ten bidders, proof that in Corona del Mar, irreplaceable frontage and a...
