Entitled Beverly Hills High-Rise Site Hits Market With No Height Limit for Luxury Hotel and Residences Tower
The approximately half-acre parcel carries entitlements for up to 311,000 square feet of mixed-use development with no height restriction, positioned directly across from...
Jacmar Cos.’s 120-Unit Mixed-Use Project Goes Vertical at the Fairfax Asterisk in LA’s Little Ethiopia
The Alhambra-based conglomerate’s 120-unit apartment building rises above grade at one of Los Angeles’ most complex intersections, adding density to a corridor in...
Hudson Pacific Recalibrates LA Portfolio as Hollywood Stages Refill and $150MM Element LA Trade Clears
The REIT booked a $147.8MM Quixote impairment, fully leased Sunset Las Palmas stages, and advanced a 508-unit Culver City residential conversion as content...
Blackstone’s $315B Real Estate Machine Pivots Hard to Data Centers as Traditional Portfolio Treads Water
The world’s largest alternative asset manager is betting its real estate franchise on AI infrastructure while waiting for logistics and multifamily to rebound...
Five Point Posts Q1 Loss, Launches $40MM Buyback as California Land Sales Slide to Back Half
The Irvine developer is holding fire on major land deals until the third and fourth quarters, betting that patience preserves pricing power in...
State Compensation Insurance Fund Acquires 159,000 SQFT Pasadena Tower for ~$33MM, a 43%Discount to Swift’s 2019 Basis
California’s public workers’ compensation carrier plans to anchor the nine-story Class A building as a Southern California hub while leasing the balance to...
Regency Centers Clears Redlands City Council for 71,400 SQFT Whole Foods Center Serving 1,000 New Homes
Jacksonville REIT’s $668MM development pipeline gains another Inland Empire anchor as 210 Freeway corridor absorbs a wave of residential growth. Regency Centers has...
LA Voters Deliver Two-to-One Mandate for More Housing, Embrace Bigger State Role, Poll Finds
New LABC Institute survey shows Angelenos across income levels demanding faster construction of mixed-income rental housing as production stalls at a fraction of...
KNM Property Management Acquires 134,000 SQFT Newport Plaza in Irvine for $24.35MM
The Jamison Properties disposition adds to a wave of Airport Area office trades re-pricing Irvine’s institutional office base. KNM Property Management acquired Newport...
107,000 SQFT Centerstone Plaza Trades for $32MM as New York Life Exits Irvine Office at Sharp Discount
The 107,028-SQFT suburban Irvine office campus clears at a 37 percent haircut to its 2016 basis, underscoring the ongoing institutional office reset. New...
Santa Barbara Multifamily Occupancy Holds Near 98% as Construction Pipeline Thins
Average effective rents climb 2.4 percent year-over-year to $2,736 per month while only 106 units remain under construction across the market Santa Barbara’s...
Latitude 33 Recruits Top Talent and Signs New Lease in Los Angeles
Engineering Firm Grows with Key Hire and Larger Downtown LA Office San Diego, CA, April 23, 2026 – As demand for commercial real...
Hudson Pacific Recalibrates LA Portfolio as Hollywood Stages Refill and $150MM Element LA Trade Clears
The REIT booked a $147.8MM Quixote impairment, fully leased Sunset Las Palmas stages, and advanced a 508-unit Culver City residential conversion as content...
Blackstone’s $315B Real Estate Machine Pivots Hard to Data Centers as Traditional Portfolio Treads Water
The world’s largest alternative asset manager is betting its real estate franchise on AI infrastructure while waiting for logistics and multifamily to rebound...
Five Point Posts Q1 Loss, Launches $40MM Buyback as California Land Sales Slide to Back Half
The Irvine developer is holding fire on major land deals until the third and fourth quarters, betting that patience preserves pricing power in...
LA Voters Deliver Two-to-One Mandate for More Housing, Embrace Bigger State Role, Poll Finds
New LABC Institute survey shows Angelenos across income levels demanding faster construction of mixed-income rental housing as production stalls at a fraction of...
Santa Barbara Multifamily Occupancy Holds Near 98% as Construction Pipeline Thins
Average effective rents climb 2.4 percent year-over-year to $2,736 per month while only 106 units remain under construction across the market Santa Barbara’s...
Macerich’s 2025 Annual Report Signals a Bifurcated Retail Market as REIT Reshapes West Coast Portfolio
The Santa Monica-based mall operator’s 10-K highlights record leasing, healthy retailer demand and the widening gap between fortress centers and lower-tier malls The...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Entitled Beverly Hills High-Rise Site Hits Market With No Height Limit for Luxury Hotel and Residences Tower
The approximately half-acre parcel carries entitlements for up to 311,000 square feet of mixed-use development with no height restriction, positioned directly across from...
Sony’s Insomniac Games Renews and Expands to 65,000 SQFT at Burbank’s Media Studios Campus
The award-winning video game studio behind Marvel’s Spider-Man deepens its commitment to a campus it has occupied for over two decades. Sony Interactive...
Defense Drone Manufacturer Neros Technologies Subleases 252,000 SQFT Facility in LA’s South Bay
The fast-growing defense startup expands its industrial footprint near its El Segundo headquarters as part of a broader manufacturing scale-up. Neros Technologies, an...
Five Point Posts Q1 Loss, Launches $40MM Buyback as California Land Sales Slide to Back Half
The Irvine developer is holding fire on major land deals until the third and fourth quarters, betting that patience preserves pricing power in...
Rancho Mission Viejo Announces 232 New Homes for Village of Rienda Final Phase
Single-family homes in three new all-age neighborhoods from Trumark Homes, Lennar, and Shea Homes coming Fall 2026 Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif. (April 1,...
Orange County Office Availability Falls to Lowest Level Since 2020 as Shrinking Inventory Reshapes the Market
Savills reports a 340-basis-point year-over-year drop in availability and a 4 million-square-foot reduction in office inventory since 2023, while Q1 leasing activity tracks...
California’s AB 2074 Targets Downtown High-Rise Housing with $500MM Revolving Loan Fund
Assemblymember Matt Haney’s Downtown Revitalization Act would mandate by-right residential density near transit in cities of 400,000-plus, directly addressing office-vacancy-driven decline in downtown...
Southern California’s Medical Outpatient Sector Faces Diverging Fortunes as Supply Constraints and Policy Risk Reshape the Market
JLL’s 2026 Medical Outpatient Building Perspective finds Los Angeles locked in a near-zero construction pipeline while San Diego builds modest new inventory, even...
Groundworks Signs Long-Term Lease at Investcorp’s 35,000 SQFT Industrial Facility in San Marcos
Cushman & Wakefield represented landlord Investcorp in securing a full-building user along San Diego County’s SR 78 corridor. Cushman & Wakefield has arranged...
Regency Centers Clears Redlands City Council for 71,400 SQFT Whole Foods Center Serving 1,000 New Homes
Jacksonville REIT’s $668MM development pipeline gains another Inland Empire anchor as 210 Freeway corridor absorbs a wave of residential growth. Regency Centers has...
Five Projects Totaling 6.6MM SQFT Advance in Inland Empire Despite Elevated Vacancy
Developers push forward with major industrial construction across the High Desert, Menifee, and Perris submarkets as the region’s 9.4 million-square-foot pipeline takes shape....
Inland Empire Industrial Market Off to Strong Start in 2026 with $381.6MM in Sales, Falling Vacancy, and Positive Absorption
Net absorption reaches 2.8 million square feet in Q1 2026 as vacancy dips 20 basis points quarter-over-quarter, offering early signs of demand stabilization....
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...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
Inland Empire Industrial Market Off to Strong Start in 2026 with $381.6MM in Sales, Falling Vacancy, and Positive Absorption
Net absorption reaches 2.8 million square feet in Q1 2026 as vacancy dips 20 basis points quarter-over-quarter, offering early signs of demand stabilization....
LA County Industrial Sales Volume Hits $1.2B as Buyers and Sellers Find Common Ground on Pricing
Quarterly sales volume rises 12.9% quarter-over-quarter as the development pipeline hits its steepest decline since the Great Recession. By J.C. Casillas, Managing Director of...
The Buyer Who Wasn’t There
The record gap between home sellers and buyers reveals a tale of two Americas—Sun Belt markets drowning in oversupply while Northern cities with...
Santa Barbara Multifamily Occupancy Holds Near 98% as Construction Pipeline Thins
Average effective rents climb 2.4 percent year-over-year to $2,736 per month while only 106 units remain under construction across the market Santa Barbara’s...
Kurv Industrial Doubles Down on Irvine With 348,000 SQFT Buy, Backed by $67.5MM PGIM Loan
Newly rebranded firm acquires Rivian-leased Irvine Spectrum asset from LBA Logistics, financing the deal with a Prudential-affiliated mortgage even as Orange County vacancy...
Macerich’s 2025 Annual Report Signals a Bifurcated Retail Market as REIT Reshapes West Coast Portfolio
The Santa Monica-based mall operator’s 10-K highlights record leasing, healthy retailer demand and the widening gap between fortress centers and lower-tier malls The...
Netflix Nears $330MM to $400MM Deal for 55-Acre Radford Studio Center in Studio City
The streaming giant’s planned purchase from Goldman Sachs would value the historic lot at roughly 80 percent below its 2021 sale price, signaling...
Faulkner Capital Partners Acquires 86-Unit Hollywood Luxury Tower The Baxter for $33.9MM
The Class A multifamily asset at 1818 N Cherokee Avenue closed as-is with no retrades in under 30 days from PSA, trading above...
Khoshbin Company Acquires 230,000 SQFT Landing Campus in Irvine for $59MM
The Irvine-based value-add investor expands its Orange County office portfolio with a deep-discount buy in the Airport Area submarket. The Khoshbin Company acquired...
Defense Drone Maker Neros Technologies Subleases 252,000 SQFT at Torrance Gateway Logistics Center
The El Segundo-based FPV drone manufacturer anchors a Project Millennium build-out as advanced manufacturing tenants continue to reshape South Bay leasing activity. Defense...
Paper Source Converting Acquires 114,720 SQFT Vernon Industrial Building for $18MM
The tissue and napkin manufacturer expands its Santa Fe Avenue footprint with an owner-user purchase from long-tenured Vernon operator Consolidated Fabricators. Paper Source...
