L.A. County Housing Posts Rare Gains as ADUs Hit Record, but USC Lusk Report Warns Affordability Crisis Runs Deep
For the first time in years, USC's annual survey of Los Angeles County housing points to record ADU output, rising rental affordability and...
BlackRock Lands $566.6MM in Agency Financing for 2,021-Unit Camden Portfolio Slice in Southern California
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has locked in more than half a billion dollars of government-backed debt across seven of the eleven Camden Property Trust...
Escondido’s Kit Carson Park Ice Deal Stalls as Lease Vote Slips and Opposition Organizes
Two months after Escondido leaders unanimously endorsed exploring a privately funded ice complex at Kit Carson Park, the lease they promised to weigh...
CalSTRS Clinches 13.9% Return, Lifts Funded Ratio to 79% as Real Estate Portfolio Regroups
The nation's largest educator pension fund posted its strongest annual investment gain in years, strengthening a long-delayed march toward full funding even as...
Dana Point Harbor Redevelopment Stalls as OC Supervisors, Developer Clash Over $700MM Hotel Leases
The redevelopment of Dana Point Harbor has stalled as Orange County supervisors and Dana Point Harbor Partners spar over the hotel, commercial-core and...
Orange County Multifamily Holds Firm as Deliveries Surge and Class C Deals Dominate
Orange County's apartment market absorbed a wave of new supply in the second quarter of 2026 without giving ground on vacancy, even as...
SDSU, PMB and Pillar Properties Unveil 250-Unit Senior Living Community at Mission Valley Campus
San Diego State University and a team of San Diego-area developers have unveiled plans for a 250-residence senior living community at the SDSU...
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.
Elysian Housing, Capstone Equities File Permits for 279,000 SQFT Affordable Senior Project in West Hills
A partnership tied to Elysian Housing and Capstone Equities has filed building permits for a six-story, 160-unit affordable senior apartment complex on Woodlake...
Southern California’s 5 GW Data Center Wave Meets Record Power Rates and a Ballot-Box Ban
While PG&E openly courts AI data centers in the north, Southern California Edison is quietly holding roughly 5 gigawatts of data center load...
Innocean USA Doubles Footprint With 101,000 SQFT Headquarters Lease at Hackman’s El Segundo Campus
Innocean USA, the U.S. arm of the Hyundai-founded advertising giant, has committed to 101,000 square feet at Hackman Capital Partners' 888 N. Douglas...
The Heights at Ponte Vista Features Four Move In Ready Elevated Townhomes
The homes embrace coastal living and multi-generational flexibility for modern Southern California lifestyles New community alert! RC Homes, the California homebuilder known for...
L.A. County Housing Posts Rare Gains as ADUs Hit Record, but USC Lusk Report Warns Affordability Crisis Runs Deep
For the first time in years, USC's annual survey of Los Angeles County housing points to record ADU output, rising rental affordability and...
CalSTRS Clinches 13.9% Return, Lifts Funded Ratio to 79% as Real Estate Portfolio Regroups
The nation's largest educator pension fund posted its strongest annual investment gain in years, strengthening a long-delayed march toward full funding even as...
Orange County Multifamily Holds Firm as Deliveries Surge and Class C Deals Dominate
Orange County's apartment market absorbed a wave of new supply in the second quarter of 2026 without giving ground on vacancy, even as...
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.
Southern California’s 5 GW Data Center Wave Meets Record Power Rates and a Ballot-Box Ban
While PG&E openly courts AI data centers in the north, Southern California Edison is quietly holding roughly 5 gigawatts of data center load...
LA Council Sends Palisades Mansion-Tax Exemption to November Voters, Putting $32MM of Measure ULA Revenue in Play
The Los Angeles City Council voted 13-1 to let November voters decide whether homes destroyed or damaged in the January 2025 Palisades Fire...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
L.A. County Housing Posts Rare Gains as ADUs Hit Record, but USC Lusk Report Warns Affordability Crisis Runs Deep
For the first time in years, USC's annual survey of Los Angeles County housing points to record ADU output, rising rental affordability and...
Southern California Retail Dollar Volume Jumps 61.8% to $3.52B in H1 2026 Even as Square Footage Traded Falls 27.7%
Buyers and sellers of Southern California retail property have finally found each other on price, and the result is a first half in...
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...
BlackRock Lands $566.6MM in Agency Financing for 2,021-Unit Camden Portfolio Slice in Southern California
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has locked in more than half a billion dollars of government-backed debt across seven of the eleven Camden Property Trust...
Southern California Retail Dollar Volume Jumps 61.8% to $3.52B in H1 2026 Even as Square Footage Traded Falls 27.7%
Buyers and sellers of Southern California retail property have finally found each other on price, and the result is a first half in...
Orange Turns Vacant Storefronts Into Revenue With Weekly Fees and $5,000 Fines
The City of Orange has advanced a maintenance-and-security ordinance that converts its inventory of empty commercial buildings from a code-enforcement headache into a...
BlackRock Lands $566.6MM in Agency Financing for 2,021-Unit Camden Portfolio Slice in Southern California
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has locked in more than half a billion dollars of government-backed debt across seven of the eleven Camden Property Trust...
Apple Renews 197,000 SQFT in San Diego’s Rancho Bernardo, Anchoring the Quarter’s Largest Office Lease
Apple’s decision to renew nearly 197,000 square feet at 16620 West Bernardo Drive single-handedly propelled the I-15 Corridor to the top of San...
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...
BlackRock Lands $566.6MM in Agency Financing for 2,021-Unit Camden Portfolio Slice in Southern California
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has locked in more than half a billion dollars of government-backed debt across seven of the eleven Camden Property Trust...
Southern California Retail Dollar Volume Jumps 61.8% to $3.52B in H1 2026 Even as Square Footage Traded Falls 27.7%
Buyers and sellers of Southern California retail property have finally found each other on price, and the result is a first half in...
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...
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...
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...
Eagle, Vistria Buy 402-Unit Crystal View Apartments in Garden Grove for $132.5MM
A joint venture between Eagle Real Estate Partners and The Vistria Group has acquired Crystal View Apartment Homes, a 402-unit Garden Grove community,...
LA Council Sends Palisades Mansion-Tax Exemption to November Voters, Putting $32MM of Measure ULA Revenue in Play
The Los Angeles City Council voted 13-1 to let November voters decide whether homes destroyed or damaged in the January 2025 Palisades Fire...
Brookfield Clinches Record $77B Quarter, Pushing Assets Past $1 Trillion
Brookfield Asset Management pulled in a company-record $77 billion during the second quarter of 2026, lifting its assets under management past $1 trillion...
LA County Rents Hit Four-Year Low, but Studios Still Squeeze the Class of 2026
Realtor.com's Q2 2026 Los Angeles County Rental Report shows median asking rents sliding to their lowest point in four years, yet studio apartments...
Jamison Lands Permits to Convert 17-Story 6380 Wilshire Tower into 217 Apartments in Carthay Circle
New renderings from Next Architecture reveal a rooftop pool deck and roughly 27,000 square feet of resident amenities as Jamison Services advances its...
Parkview Financial Moves to Foreclose on 203-Unit River Point Tower in Warner Center Amid $110MM Sale Push
The 203-unit River Point tower at 6801 Canoga Avenue, marketed by CBRE for $110 million as a turnkey trophy rental, is simultaneously the...
WareSpace Converts Vacant 73,000 SQFT Carlsbad Building into 70-Plus Small-Business Warehouse Units
WareSpace, a Maryland operator that carves outdated buildings into rentable micro-warehouses, has acquired a vacant 73,057-square-foot property on El Camino Real for its...
Western Alliance Bank Revives Foreclosed 600 B Street, Pushing Downtown San Diego Tower to 66% Leased
Two years after taking back the 24-story tower through foreclosure, Western Alliance Bank has poured capital into 600 B Street's lobby, plaza and...
