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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Port of Long Beach Leases Berth 48 to Bluecore Energy for California’s First Nuclear Project in 50 Years

The Port of Long Beach has cleared a path for the first new nuclear power project in California in half a century, leasing...

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...

Nine TV Productions Win $121MM in Tax Credits as LA Soundstages Sit One-Third Empty

California awarded $121.3 million in film and television tax credits to nine new television series on Aug. 10, steering $608 million in production...

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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...

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...

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...

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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....

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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.

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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,...

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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...

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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)...

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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...

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...

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...

loanDepot Anchors Irvine Company’s Discovery Park With 146,000 SQFT, One of Orange County’s Biggest Office Deals

Nonbank mortgage giant loanDepot has committed to 145,500 square feet at Irvine Company's Discovery Park, cementing its Irvine headquarters and ranking among the...

Pacific Urban Investors Grabs 168-Unit Preston in Miracle Mile for $70.5MM as Sares-Regis Books a Loss

Pacific Urban Investors extended its Los Angeles buying streak with the $70.5 million purchase of the Preston apartments in Miracle Mile, a price...

Lowe and Henderson Park Acquire 1,031,000 SQFT Westfield Plaza Bonita for $201.5MM in National City

Los Angeles-based Lowe and private equity firm Henderson Park have purchased Westfield Plaza Bonita for $201.5 million and plan to reposition the National...

Irvine Co., USA Properties Break Ground on 338-Unit, $175MM Affordable Community at Tustin Legacy

The Irvine Company and USA Properties Fund have broken ground on Terracina at Tustin Legacy, a 338-unit affordable apartment community that will deliver...

Institutional Investor Acquires 179,000 SQFT San Dimas Commerce Center for $41MM

An unnamed national institutional investor has purchased San Dimas Commerce Center, a fully parceled 19-building light industrial park in the San Gabriel Valley,...

Lincoln Property, TPG Angelo Gordon Cleared to Replace Newport Beach’s Redstone Campus with 132 Homes

Lincoln Property Company and financial partner TPG Angelo Gordon have won unanimous City Council approval to demolish two office buildings at Newport Beach's...