Wildwood School Acquires 101,000 SQFT Ocean Park Plaza for $50.6MM in Santa Monica
A private co-educational school has purchased Santa Monica’s largely empty Ocean Park Plaza in an all-cash deal, pulling a full city block of...
Fashion Nova Leases 133,000 SQFT Santa Fe Springs Warehouse From Clarion Partners
Fashion Nova has deepened its Southern California logistics base with a second Santa Fe Springs warehouse lease, betting on fulfillment capacity as Los...
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...
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...
Inland Empire Industrial Vacancy Stuck Near 10% as Asking Rents Keep Falling
The Inland Empire’s industrial market held its vacancy rate at a multi-year high of 9.7 percent in the second quarter of 2026 while...
LA Industrial Pipeline Shrinks to 4.9MM SQFT as AB 98 Curbs Development
Los Angeles County’s industrial construction pipeline contracted to 4.9 million square feet in the second quarter of 2026, with every one of the...
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...
Comic-Con Locks Into San Diego Through 2030, Anchoring $160MM Annual Hospitality Windfall
San Diego secured a five-year commitment from Comic-Con International that keeps the pop-culture juggernaut and its estimated $160 million in annual regional spending...
Roy Choi’s Best Friend to Anchor OCVIBE as First Signature Restaurant in Anaheim’s $5B District
Chef Roy Choi will bring the second location of his acclaimed Best Friend restaurant to Anaheim's OCVIBE in Fall 2027, giving the Samueli...
Breakthrough Properties, Tishman Speyer Provide $90MM Mezzanine Loan on 538,000 SQFT Neurocrine-Leased Aperture Del Mar in San Diego
Two of the biggest names in life science real estate have moved to the credit side of a fully leased San Diego campus,...
Blackstone’s $195MM Tower at Burbank Loan Lands on CMBS Watchlist as Office Occupancy Slides to 73%
Morningstar Credit has flagged the $195 million loan on Blackstone’s Tower at Burbank office property for occupancy erosion, as a signature entertainment-district tower...
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...
Inland Empire Industrial Vacancy Stuck Near 10% as Asking Rents Keep Falling
The Inland Empire’s industrial market held its vacancy rate at a multi-year high of 9.7 percent in the second quarter of 2026 while...
Comic-Con Locks Into San Diego Through 2030, Anchoring $160MM Annual Hospitality Windfall
San Diego secured a five-year commitment from Comic-Con International that keeps the pop-culture juggernaut and its estimated $160 million in annual regional spending...
Roy Choi’s Best Friend to Anchor OCVIBE as First Signature Restaurant in Anaheim’s $5B District
Chef Roy Choi will bring the second location of his acclaimed Best Friend restaurant to Anaheim's OCVIBE in Fall 2027, giving the Samueli...
Sony Pictures to Reopen and Restore Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome, Operated by Alamo Drafthouse
Sony Pictures Entertainment will resurrect one of Hollywood’s most recognizable landmarks, pledging to restore the shuttered Cinerama Dome and hand the keys to...
Prologis Data Center Starts Reach $2.1 Billion as Power Pipeline Climbs to 5.8 Gigawatts
Prologis is rapidly scaling two businesses born from its logistics platform — data centers and energy — with data center development already exceeding...
Milhaus Merges with Sares Regis Group Residential to Form 50,000-Unit Multifamily Platform, Moves to Acquire Broadshore Capital
Indianapolis-based Milhaus and Newport Beach’s SRG Residential have completed a merger that combines a Midwestern developer with a national apartment manager, and the...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Wildwood School Acquires 101,000 SQFT Ocean Park Plaza for $50.6MM in Santa Monica
A private co-educational school has purchased Santa Monica’s largely empty Ocean Park Plaza in an all-cash deal, pulling a full city block of...
Wellpointe Unveils $2B, 3,458-Unit “Viva” Affordable Senior Housing Complex at Warner Center in Woodland Hills
Wellpointe is pulling the curtain back on Viva, a four-tower, 100 percent affordable senior housing complex in Woodland Hills that would rank among...
Redwood West and Panattoni Acquire 395,000 SQFT The Pike Waterfront Center in Long Beach for $50MM
Redwood West and Panattoni have purchased The Pike, the open-air lifestyle center on Long Beach’s downtown waterfront, and are lining up a $20...
Roy Choi’s Best Friend to Anchor OCVIBE as First Signature Restaurant in Anaheim’s $5B District
Chef Roy Choi will bring the second location of his acclaimed Best Friend restaurant to Anaheim's OCVIBE in Fall 2027, giving the Samueli...
Hoag Clinches 92-Acre Ziggurat Campus in Laguna Niguel for $207MM, Ending Three-Year Federal Sale Saga
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has emerged as the final winner of Orange County’s most contested real estate disposition, acquiring the 1-million-square-foot Chet Holifield...
Southern California Industrial Prices Reset as Sale Values Fall 21.7% and Construction Pipeline Shrinks
Southern California’s industrial market moved toward equilibrium in the second quarter of 2026 as a sharp pullback in construction and steady leasing helped...
Comic-Con Locks Into San Diego Through 2030, Anchoring $160MM Annual Hospitality Windfall
San Diego secured a five-year commitment from Comic-Con International that keeps the pop-culture juggernaut and its estimated $160 million in annual regional spending...
San Diego Launches Affordable Housing Preservation Fund With $8.5MM to Stem Loss of Low-Rent Apartments
The San Diego City Council voted unanimously to create an Affordable Housing Preservation Fund and seed it with $8.5 million, handing the San...
Wakeland Housing’s $140MM Becker Affordable Complex Leads Hines’ $1B Riverwalk in San Diego’s Mission Valley
Construction is underway on The Becker, a $140 million affordable apartment complex that will be the first completed building within Hines’ $1 billion...
Inland Empire Industrial Vacancy Stuck Near 10% as Asking Rents Keep Falling
The Inland Empire’s industrial market held its vacancy rate at a multi-year high of 9.7 percent in the second quarter of 2026 while...
Southern California Industrial Prices Reset as Sale Values Fall 21.7% and Construction Pipeline Shrinks
Southern California’s industrial market moved toward equilibrium in the second quarter of 2026 as a sharp pullback in construction and steady leasing helped...
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...
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...
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...
Wyoming Buyer Acquires 88-Site Sundance Senior Manufactured Housing Community in Escondido for $11MM
A privately held buyer shielded behind a Wyoming holding company has acquired Sundance Mobile Home Park, an 88-site senior manufactured housing community in...
Simon Adds 11 Retail and Dining Concepts and Opens 85,000 SQFT Life Time Club at Brea Mall
Simon Property Group is deepening its multimillion-dollar bet on North Orange County, signing 11 new retail and dining tenants at Brea Mall and...
Asana Partners Acquires 63,000 SQFT Crown Valley Center in Laguna Niguel for $20.5MM in First Trade in 57 Years
A grocery-anchored neighborhood center in the heart of South Orange County has changed hands for the first time since it was built in...
Pegasus Structures Permanent Loan With 33% Future-Funding Holdback Around 1031 Exchange in Atascadero
Pegasus Capital Markets arranged a permanent loan that carries a committed future-funding holdback of roughly one-third of the balance and accrues interest only...
ParkTerra, JEN Partners Sell 50,000 SQFT AXIS Office Building in Anaheim’s Platinum Triangle for $11.75MM
A joint venture of ParkTerra and JEN Partners has sold a three-story office building at Anaheim’s AXIS campus to a local owner-user for...
Bascom Group Acquires 183-Unit Castlewood Park Apartments in Buena Park for $53MM
The Bascom Group has purchased the 1963-vintage Castlewood Park Apartments in Buena Park for $53.125 million, wagering that experienced value-add operators can profit...
Four-Building 70,000 SQFT San Ysidro Industrial Park Hits Market at $18.9MM
A stabilized four-building industrial park pressed against the nation’s busiest border crossing has come to market at $18.9 million, testing investor appetite for...
Alexandria Delivers 427,000 SQFT R&D Hub for Bristol Myers Squibb at Campus Point Megacampus in San Diego
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has handed the keys to a fully leased life science complex to one of the world’s largest drugmakers, a...
