Welltower Acquires 339-Unit Variel Senior Living Community in Woodland Hills for $230MM from Harbert South Bay
Toledo-based Welltower deepened its multibillion-dollar push into senior living with the $230.28 million purchase of a three-year-old Woodland Hills community, a deal that...
Samueli Family Office, Waterford Buy 371-Unit Edge Apartments in Anaheim’s Platinum Triangle for $153.6MM
The back-to-back sale of the Edge and Rise apartment complexes for a combined $314 million in a single week signals intensifying institutional appetite...
Schrager and Scheetz Land $116.5MM Bridge Refinance for 137-Room Public West Hollywood Hotel
The bridge package from Driftwood Capital and Benefit Street Partners retires a 2024 construction loan as Ian Schrager and Ed Scheetz push to...
Centennial’s MainPlace Redevelopment Hits 309 of 1,900 Units in Santa Ana as Hotel Stalls, Tax Revenue Dips
Centennial's seventh annual monitoring report for the 2800 North Main Street property, received and filed by the Santa Ana Planning Commission on Sept....
Strauss Investments Buys 157,000 SQFT Valencia Office Campus for $32MM
Strauss Investments pays $204 per square foot for the two-building Valencia campus, just under what Harbor Associates paid to acquire it in 2018....
Risewell Homes Advances Phase C of Eastvale’s Leal Master Plan with 73-Lot Tract Map and 224 New Homes
The Eastvale Planning Commission is weighing a tentative tract map and a slate of development reviews that would split 44.47 acres into 73...
JMW Truss Pushes 240-Unit Boulders II Apartments in Menifee as Planning Commission Delays Rezone Vote
The Menifee Planning Commission put off a recommendation on JMW Truss's plan to rezone roughly 10 acres near Berea Road for the 240-unit...
KB Home Clinches Approval for 108 For-Sale Townhomes on Von Karman Office Site in Irvine
The Irvine Planning Commission has cleared KB Home to raze an aging office building on Von Karman Avenue and build 108 for-sale townhomes,...
Hourglass Cosmetics Leases 19,000 SQFT at Pacific Design Center’s Red Building in West Hollywood
Unilever Prestige-owned luxury makeup brand Hourglass Cosmetics has signed a new six-year lease for 18,500 square feet at Cohen Brothers Realty's Red Building,...
Grindr Renews 15,000 SQFT Headquarters at Pacific Design Center’s Red Building in West Hollywood
Dating and social networking company Grindr has renewed its 14,500-square-foot headquarters at Cohen Brothers Realty's Red Building, one of seven leases the landlord...
Blackstone, Hudson Pacific Secure 15-Month Extension on $1.1B Hollywood Studio Loan Anchored by Netflix
Lenders on the Blackstone and Hudson Pacific Properties Hollywood studio-and-office portfolio have finalized a loan modification that buys the sponsors 15 more months,...
Southern California’s Building Operations Power a $53.6BN Economy Supporting 334,000 Jobs, BOMA Study Finds
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International sizes Southern California's building-operations economy, finding that Greater Los Angeles ranks among the nation's largest markets...
Centennial’s MainPlace Redevelopment Hits 309 of 1,900 Units in Santa Ana as Hotel Stalls, Tax Revenue Dips
Centennial's seventh annual monitoring report for the 2800 North Main Street property, received and filed by the Santa Ana Planning Commission on Sept....
Texas Corners the AI Data Center Boom While California’s 2,287 MW Pipeline Trails the Nation
A new national accounting of data-center capacity shows California with 53 operating facilities but only a slender post-2026 pipeline, leaving Southern California's fast-growing...
Southern California’s Building Operations Power a $53.6BN Economy Supporting 334,000 Jobs, BOMA Study Finds
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International sizes Southern California's building-operations economy, finding that Greater Los Angeles ranks among the nation's largest markets...
UCLA Researchers Warn AI Data-Center Debt Could Shake the Broader Economy
In their September 2026 Economic Letter, UCLA Anderson Forecast and Ziman Center researchers warn that the heavily leveraged financing behind the national AI...
Lennar Leans on Rate Buydowns to Keep Buyers Qualifying as Affordability Bites
Lennar is engineering affordable monthly payments through rate buydowns, closing-cost help and an 83 percent mortgage-capture rate to keep buyers in the door,...
Wells Fargo Flags Warehouse Softness and Higher Rates as Inland Empire Risks, With Data Centers Advancing
Wells Fargo's September economic outlook singles out soft warehousing and retail demand alongside a higher floor under interest rates as the chief risks...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Welltower Acquires 339-Unit Variel Senior Living Community in Woodland Hills for $230MM from Harbert South Bay
Toledo-based Welltower deepened its multibillion-dollar push into senior living with the $230.28 million purchase of a three-year-old Woodland Hills community, a deal that...
San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout
A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...
Imperial County Reverses California’s Largest Data Center as Water Fight Heads to Court
Two months after approving a nearly 1 million square foot hyperscale campus, Imperial County reversed course with a moratorium, drawing a lawsuit from...
Samueli Family Office, Waterford Buy 371-Unit Edge Apartments in Anaheim’s Platinum Triangle for $153.6MM
The back-to-back sale of the Edge and Rise apartment complexes for a combined $314 million in a single week signals intensifying institutional appetite...
San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout
A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...
OCVIBE Adds Five Kitchens to 50,000 SQFT Katella Commons as Anaheim District Underwrites Tenant Build-Outs
The Samueli family's OCVIBE has signed five more independent operators into Katella Commons, the 50,000-square-foot Anaheim market hall it is financing down to...
West Covina and El Cajon Malls Anchor $437MM Starwood Portfolio Back in Special Servicing
The Starwood Regional Mall Portfolio, whose Southern California holdings include Plaza West Covina in the San Gabriel Valley and Parkway Plaza in El...
San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout
A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...
Midway Rising’s $3.9B San Diego Redevelopment Clears Sacramento as Risk Shifts From Courtroom to Capital Stack
Two bills enrolled in the final hours of California's legislative session would retire the environmental litigation risk that has stalled the 48-acre Sports...
Gantry Lands $9MM Life Company Refinance for 100%-Leased 55,000 SQFT Temecula Office Building
Gantry has arranged a $9 million fixed-rate life company loan to retire CMBS debt on Vail Ranch Town Square, a fully occupied medical...
San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout
A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...
Imperial County Reverses California’s Largest Data Center as Water Fight Heads to Court
Two months after approving a nearly 1 million square foot hyperscale campus, Imperial County reversed course with a moratorium, drawing a lawsuit from...
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
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
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...
Blackstone, Hudson Pacific Secure 15-Month Extension on $1.1B Hollywood Studio Loan Anchored by Netflix
Lenders on the Blackstone and Hudson Pacific Properties Hollywood studio-and-office portfolio have finalized a loan modification that buys the sponsors 15 more months,...
DivcoWest Sells 542,000 SQFT Glendale Plaza to Sunny Hills for $70MM at 61% Discount
San Francisco-based DivcoWest sold the 24-story Glendale Plaza office tower to an entity tied to West Covina's Sunny Hills Management Co. for roughly...
Segerstrom Completes $65.5MM 313,000 SQFT South Coast Technology Center in Santa Ana, Fully Leased to Anduril
The completion of the three-building industrial campus on a demolished Lake Center office site hands the fast-growing defense contractor its largest purpose-built Orange...
Costa Mesa Council Approves 2,300 Homes at Former Fairview Developmental Center, Scaling Back 4,000-Unit Plan
The Costa Mesa City Council unanimously approved a land-use plan for the shuttered Fairview Developmental Center that clears the way for 2,300 homes...
West Covina and El Cajon Malls Anchor $437MM Starwood Portfolio Back in Special Servicing
The Starwood Regional Mall Portfolio, whose Southern California holdings include Plaza West Covina in the San Gabriel Valley and Parkway Plaza in El...
Borstein Enterprises Lands $72.5MM Refinancing on 507,000 SQFT Alameda Business Centre in Los Angeles
The longtime owner tapped Bank of America for fresh debt on a four-building industrial campus it has held since developing the site nearly...
Archway Markets 75,000 SQFT Hollywood Creative Office at 1800 Vine for $45MM
The three-story creative office compound near the Capitol Records Building — which Archway bought for about $20 million a decade ago and reimagined...
Residence Inn LAX Appraisal Plunges 45% to $45.5MM as 231-Key Hotel Heads Toward Note Sale
A fresh $45.5 million valuation on the 231-key Residence Inn by Marriott near Los Angeles International Airport has wiped out nearly half the...
