Los Angeles Fire Rebuild Puts AI Plan Check to the Test as Developers Automate the Front End
The rebuilding of Los Angeles neighborhoods destroyed in the January 2025 wildfires has become Southern California's largest live test of AI in the...
Manolo Farmers Market Owner Buys Its Longtime Home, 75,000 SQFT Main Street Marketplace in El Cajon, From DPI Retail for $17.5MM
The ownership group behind Manolo Farmers Market paid DPI Retail $17.5 million for Main Street Marketplace, the 75,328-square-foot El Cajon neighborhood center the...
Dupont Properties Seeks Irvine Approval for 107-Unit Apartment Project to Replace 18,000 SQFT Office Building
A 1971 office building on Irvine's Dupont Drive would be torn down for a six-story, 107-unit apartment building, as Dupont Properties, LLC takes...
Abacus Capital Group Affiliate Acquires 128-Unit Knollwood Meadows Apartments in Orcutt
An affiliate of Abacus Capital Group has bought the 128-unit Knollwood Meadows apartments in Orcutt from Knollwood Properties LP, one of only a...
Lewis Retail Centers Starts Offsite Work on 74,000 SQFT Stater Bros.-Anchored Arboretum Marketplace in Fontana
Lewis Retail Centers has cleared and fully entitled the site for Arboretum Marketplace, a Stater Bros.-anchored neighborhood center at the gateway to The...
Engine Real Estate Acquires 15,000 SQFT G-Son Studios Building in Atwater Village for $10MM
A Napa Valley-based father-and-son investment firm paid just under $10 million, backed by a $7.35 million Mega Bank loan, for the Glendale Boulevard...
A.F. Gilmore Co. Scoops Up 29,000 SQFT Fairfax Theatre Site in Los Angeles for $7.2MM, 84% Below 2025 Ask
The family-owned company behind Los Angeles' Original Farmers Market has bought the gutted, landmark-protected Fairfax Theatre at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue for...
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...
National Services Group Relocates to 35,000 SQFT at 3 Hutton Centre in Santa Ana
Irvine-based home services and construction holding company National Services Group is moving into 34,771 square feet at 3 Hutton Centre Drive, a 10-story...
Internal Revenue Service Expands to 33,000 SQFT at 801 Civic Center Drive in Santa Ana
The Internal Revenue Service has grown its presence in downtown Santa Ana's Civic Center with a 32,967-square-foot expansion at 801 Civic Center Drive,...
Nexus Development Lands $276MM Refinancing for 395-Unit Vivante Senior Communities in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa
Nexus Development has locked in $276 million in new debt across its two Orange County Vivante communities, with the Newport Center property alone...
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
Los Angeles Fire Rebuild Puts AI Plan Check to the Test as Developers Automate the Front End
The rebuilding of Los Angeles neighborhoods destroyed in the January 2025 wildfires has become Southern California's largest live test of AI in the...
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 Industrial Sale Prices Jump 16.8% in Q3 as Leasing Falls 40%
Southern California's industrial sale prices jumped 16.8 percent in the third quarter and asking rents edged higher, but a sharp pullback in leasing...
Big Renewals Push Los Angeles Office Leasing to Highest Level Since 2019
Los Angeles office tenants signed 4.0 million square feet of leases in the third quarter of 2026, the most since 2019, as major...
Orange County Office Leasing Surges 60% as Defense and Healthcare Tenants Tighten Supply
Orange County's office market blew past its five-year quarterly average as 2.1 million square feet of leasing, led by Envista Holdings, Regional Center...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Expands to 14,000 SQFT at Silverstein’s U.S. Bank Tower, Extending Through 2037
Mizrahi Tefahot Bank’s U.S. operation, a Downtown Los Angeles fixture for more than four decades, is adding 6,022 square feet at U.S. Bank...
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
Toys R Us Lands Three Southern California Stores in Cerritos, Long Beach and Camarillo as WHP Global Rolls Out 120 US Locations
Toys R Us is planting holiday stores at Los Cerritos Center, the Long Beach Towne Center and Camarillo Premium Outlets, giving Southern California...
Dupont Properties Seeks Irvine Approval for 107-Unit Apartment Project to Replace 18,000 SQFT Office Building
A 1971 office building on Irvine's Dupont Drive would be torn down for a six-story, 107-unit apartment building, as Dupont Properties, LLC takes...
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
Broadcom Acquires Its 661,000 SQFT Irvine Headquarters Campus from PRP Real Assets for $325MM
The Palo Alto-based chipmaker converted from tenant to owner of its Irvine Spectrum headquarters, paying $325 million to landlord PRP Real Assets—roughly $492...
Manolo Farmers Market Owner Buys Its Longtime Home, 75,000 SQFT Main Street Marketplace in El Cajon, From DPI Retail for $17.5MM
The ownership group behind Manolo Farmers Market paid DPI Retail $17.5 million for Main Street Marketplace, the 75,328-square-foot El Cajon neighborhood center the...
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
Vacant 60,000 SQFT Otay Mesa Industrial Building Hits the Market at $13.4MM in San Diego
A newly vacated 59,505-square-foot industrial building at 8753 Kerns Street has come to market in San Diego's Otay Mesa submarket at an asking...
Los Angeles Fire Rebuild Puts AI Plan Check to the Test as Developers Automate the Front End
The rebuilding of Los Angeles neighborhoods destroyed in the January 2025 wildfires has become Southern California's largest live test of AI in the...
Orange County Industrial Construction Costs Jump 6.5% as Southern California Warehouse Pricing Tops $160 Per Foot
Orange County posted one of the steepest industrial construction cost increases in the Americas this year, while San Diego, Los Angeles and the...
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...
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...
A.F. Gilmore Co. Scoops Up 29,000 SQFT Fairfax Theatre Site in Los Angeles for $7.2MM, 84% Below 2025 Ask
The family-owned company behind Los Angeles' Original Farmers Market has bought the gutted, landmark-protected Fairfax Theatre at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue for...
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...
National Services Group Relocates to 35,000 SQFT at 3 Hutton Centre in Santa Ana
Irvine-based home services and construction holding company National Services Group is moving into 34,771 square feet at 3 Hutton Centre Drive, a 10-story...
Internal Revenue Service Expands to 33,000 SQFT at 801 Civic Center Drive in Santa Ana
The Internal Revenue Service has grown its presence in downtown Santa Ana's Civic Center with a 32,967-square-foot expansion at 801 Civic Center Drive,...
Nine-Eighteen Apartments, 32-Unit Anaheim Complex, Trades for $7.1MM in All-Cash Deal
A long-dormant local investor returned to the apartment market for the first time since 1993, paying $7.1 million in cash for a 1970s-era,...
Nexus Development Lands $276MM Refinancing for 395-Unit Vivante Senior Communities in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa
Nexus Development has locked in $276 million in new debt across its two Orange County Vivante communities, with the Newport Center property alone...
Culver City Lands $103MM Option to Buy Fortress’ 198,000 SQFT Former Sony Animation Campus
Culver City has secured the exclusive right to buy the vacant former Sony Pictures Animation campus from Fortress Investment Group for $103 million,...
SoLa Impact Lands $92.9MM KeyBank Package for 166-Unit Broadway & Imperial Affordable Project in South Los Angeles
SoLa Impact has assembled a $92.9 million KeyBank-led capital stack for Broadway & Imperial, a 166-unit affordable housing development on a former industrial...
