Exagen Converts Sublease Into Direct 28,000 SQFT Lease at 2175 Salk Avenue on Carlsbad’s Ventana Campus
Exagen Inc. has locked in its Carlsbad foothold beyond 2027, signing a direct 28,094-square-foot lease for the third floor of 2175 Salk Avenue...
A. Rudin Inks 11-Year Renewal, Moves Into 11,000 SQFT Flagship Showroom at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center
Furniture maker A. Rudin locked in an 11-year renewal at the Pacific Design Center and will move into an 11,000-square-foot flagship showroom in...
Calidi Biotherapeutics Relocates to 9,000 SQFT Sorrento Mesa Lab at 5580 Morehouse Drive, Targeting $1.1MM in Annual Savings
Calidi Biotherapeutics, the NYSE American-listed oncology company developing virus-based immunotherapies, signed a 44-month lease for 9,038 square feet of office and laboratory space...
Jamison Scraps Stalled 110-Room Koreatown Hotel for 114-Unit Affordable Complex at 679 S. Harvard Boulevard
Jamison Services has filed plans to replace its long-stalled hotel project just south of Wilshire Boulevard with a seven-story, 114-unit building reserved entirely...
Southern California Retail Vacancy Slips to 5.9% as Inflation Tests Shoppers’ Wallets
Southern California retail vacancy edged down to 5.9 percent in the third quarter of 2026 and year-to-date absorption swung back into positive territory,...
Downtown Inventory Purge, Not New Vacancy, Lifts San Diego Office Availability to 21%
Savills' third-quarter numbers show San Diego's office availability rising to 21.0 percent mainly because roughly 2.7 million square feet of obsolete Downtown buildings...
Renewals Claim 7 of San Diego’s 10 Largest Q3 Office Leases as Volume Dips Below Average
Renewals made up seven of the 10 largest San Diego office leases Savills tracked in the third quarter, led by the County of...
Law Firms Pay San Diego’s Top Rents on Carmel Valley’s Valley Centre Drive as Downtown Availability Hits 35.8%
Greenberg Traurig and Snell & Wilmer each picked Valley Centre Drive in Carmel Valley for new San Diego offices in the third quarter,...
Los Angeles Borrows San Francisco’s Vacant to Vibrant Playbook With $500,000 Bet on Downtown Storefronts
Los Angeles is putting $500,000 in federal block grant money behind its own version of San Francisco's Vacant to Vibrant program, betting that...
McCarthy Building Companies Renews 44,000 SQFT at 12830 El Camino Real in Carmel Valley
McCarthy Building Companies renewed its 44,161-square-foot office at 12830 El Camino Real in Del Mar Heights/Carmel Valley, committing to San Diego's most expensive...
Trader Joe’s Signs 9,000 SQFT Lease at Sea Breeze Properties’ 222 North City, Largest Q3 Retail Lease in San Diego County
Trader Joe's has signed an 8,630-square-foot lease at Sea Breeze Properties' 222 North City tower in San Marcos, the largest retail lease in...
Record-Setting Year: Latitude 33 Wins Four Awards from ASCE San Diego
Engineering Firm Recognized for Civil and Military Projects San Diego, CA, October 20, 2026 – Celebrating a landmark year of industry recognition, Latitude...
Southern California Retail Vacancy Slips to 5.9% as Inflation Tests Shoppers’ Wallets
Southern California retail vacancy edged down to 5.9 percent in the third quarter of 2026 and year-to-date absorption swung back into positive territory,...
Downtown Inventory Purge, Not New Vacancy, Lifts San Diego Office Availability to 21%
Savills' third-quarter numbers show San Diego's office availability rising to 21.0 percent mainly because roughly 2.7 million square feet of obsolete Downtown buildings...
Renewals Claim 7 of San Diego’s 10 Largest Q3 Office Leases as Volume Dips Below Average
Renewals made up seven of the 10 largest San Diego office leases Savills tracked in the third quarter, led by the County of...
Capricor and Aspen Neuroscience Lead 220,000 SQFT of Cell Therapy Leasing in San Diego as Lab Vacancy Climbs
Capricor Therapeutics and Aspen Neuroscience leased nearly 220,000 square feet of San Diego lab and manufacturing space in the third quarter, joining Seattle's...
San Fernando Valley Is LA’s Only Industrial Submarket in the Red, Losing 238,000 SQFT as 1.07MM SQFT Rises
The Greater San Fernando Valley gave back 238,000 square feet of occupied industrial space in the third quarter, the only Los Angeles submarket...
San Diego Lab Sublease Vacancy Sinks to 2.8% as Direct Vacancy Hits 25.8%, Leaving Landlords Holding the Glut
San Diego life science tenants have drawn sublease vacancy down to 2.8 percent even as direct vacancy climbed to 25.8 percent, a pattern...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
A. Rudin Inks 11-Year Renewal, Moves Into 11,000 SQFT Flagship Showroom at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center
Furniture maker A. Rudin locked in an 11-year renewal at the Pacific Design Center and will move into an 11,000-square-foot flagship showroom in...
Overton Moore Properties Buys 248,000 SQFT MEI-Leased La Mirada Industrial Facility From Brookfield for $58.5MM
Overton Moore Properties paid $58.5 million for Brookfield's 248,105-square-foot La Mirada industrial building, inheriting a freshly renewed, market-rate lease with heavy-equipment specialist MEI...
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...
Southern California Retail Vacancy Slips to 5.9% as Inflation Tests Shoppers’ Wallets
Southern California retail vacancy edged down to 5.9 percent in the third quarter of 2026 and year-to-date absorption swung back into positive territory,...
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...
Westwood Financial Buys 95,000 SQFT Ralphs-Anchored Peninsula Marketplace From Blackstone in Huntington Beach for $56.2MM
Los Angeles-based Westwood Financial has taken control of Peninsula Marketplace, a 99 percent leased, Ralphs-anchored neighborhood center at 19081 Goldenwest Street in Huntington...
Exagen Converts Sublease Into Direct 28,000 SQFT Lease at 2175 Salk Avenue on Carlsbad’s Ventana Campus
Exagen Inc. has locked in its Carlsbad foothold beyond 2027, signing a direct 28,094-square-foot lease for the third floor of 2175 Salk Avenue...
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 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...
Southern California Retail Vacancy Slips to 5.9% as Inflation Tests Shoppers’ Wallets
Southern California retail vacancy edged down to 5.9 percent in the third quarter of 2026 and year-to-date absorption swung back into positive territory,...
Inland Empire Industrial Rents Drop Below $1 as Vacancy Hits 9.9% and Absorption Turns Negative
Inland Empire industrial asking rents slipped below $1 per square foot as vacancy edged up to 9.9 percent and move-outs in the eastern...
Inland Empire Renewal Wave Tops 3.6MM SQFT as Landlords Cut Rents to Keep Warehouse Tenants
Inland Empire warehouse tenants that held off on real estate decisions through a stretch of tariff swings and economic uncertainty have reached their...
Salad Days Are Over: Why Protein and Caffeine Are Winning the Restaurant Real Estate Race
By John Cumbelich October 5, 2026 – True Food Kitchen files for bankruptcy. Is anyone shocked by the news that yet another salad...
Dinked: Have We Hit Peak Pickleball?
The Picklr’s Chapter 11 filing, driven by lease guarantees on roughly 40 franchise locations, may be the first sign that indoor pickleball’s real...
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
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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.
Trader Joe’s Signs 9,000 SQFT Lease at Sea Breeze Properties’ 222 North City, Largest Q3 Retail Lease in San Diego County
Trader Joe's has signed an 8,630-square-foot lease at Sea Breeze Properties' 222 North City tower in San Marcos, the largest retail lease in...
Bath & Body Works Signs 6,000 SQFT Lease at San Ysidro Village Near U.S.-Mexico Border
Bath & Body Works committed to 5,760 square feet at San Ysidro Village, the Camino de la Plaza shopping center near the San...
CrossFit Gym Forge 8 Athletics Leases 5,000 SQFT at Exchange at Miramar Road in San Diego
CrossFit and Hyrox gym Forge 8 Athletics took 5,267 square feet at the Exchange at Miramar Road in July, landing one of San...
The Law Collective Acquires 28,000 SQFT Medical Office Building Across From Cedars-Sinai in West Hollywood for $18.7MM
Plaintiff-side firm The Law Collective outmaneuvered a field of mostly owner-user bidders to land a four-story, partially vacant medical building on Beverly Boulevard...
Capricor and Aspen Neuroscience Lead 220,000 SQFT of Cell Therapy Leasing in San Diego as Lab Vacancy Climbs
Capricor Therapeutics and Aspen Neuroscience leased nearly 220,000 square feet of San Diego lab and manufacturing space in the third quarter, joining Seattle's...
San Fernando Valley Is LA’s Only Industrial Submarket in the Red, Losing 238,000 SQFT as 1.07MM SQFT Rises
The Greater San Fernando Valley gave back 238,000 square feet of occupied industrial space in the third quarter, the only Los Angeles submarket...
Paramount Pictures Takes Over Bay Theater Lease at Caruso’s Palisades Village, Taps The Lot for Year-End Reopening
Paramount Pictures has taken over Netflix's lease on the Bay Theater inside Rick Caruso's Palisades Village, tapping luxury dine-in operator The Lot to...
San Diego Lab Sublease Vacancy Sinks to 2.8% as Direct Vacancy Hits 25.8%, Leaving Landlords Holding the Glut
San Diego life science tenants have drawn sublease vacancy down to 2.8 percent even as direct vacancy climbed to 25.8 percent, a pattern...