Lowe, Real Capital Solutions Unveil The Valley, Recasting 1.1MM SQFT Former Westfield Mission Valley as Transit-Oriented Village in San Diego
Three years after buying the aging Westfield Mission Valley from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Lowe and Real Capital Solutions will publicly debut the rebranded The Valley...
Bixby Capital Management Refinances Six-Property Portfolio, Including Newport Beach HQ, With $110MM Fixed-Rate Loan
Bixby Capital Management has refinanced a six-property, fully leased portfolio, pairing its own Quail Street headquarters in Newport Beach with five single-tenant industrial...
ACORE Capital Lends $71.25MM to North Palisade Partners for 291,000 SQFT Santee Industrial Project
ACORE Capital has provided $71.25 million in acquisition and construction financing for North Palisade Partners' Palisade Santee Commerce Center, giving the Newport Beach...
EDENS Buys 263,000 SQFT The Forum Carlsbad from Northwood Investors, Nuveen Real Estate
EDENS has taken control of The Forum, a Jimbo's-anchored open-air center on 33 acres in Carlsbad, from a Northwood Investors and Nuveen Real...
SoCalGas Opens 199,000 SQFT Headquarters at CIM Group’s 2CAL, Keeping 700 Jobs in Downtown Los Angeles
Southern California Gas Company celebrated the opening of its new headquarters at CIM Group's 2CAL tower on Bunker Hill alongside Mayor Karen Bass,...
North Palisade Partners Buys Santee Drive-In Site for $22.75MM, Launches 291,000 SQFT Industrial Project
The $22.75 million land deal, about $1.69 million per acre, will put nearly 291,000 square feet of new multi-tenant industrial space in East...
Viridian Lofts, a 33-Unit Mixed-Use Asset With 39,000 SQFT of Retail and a 275-Space Garage, Lists for $24MM in Downtown San Diego
A trio of century-old buildings at Broadway and Fourth and Fifth avenues in downtown San Diego's Civic Core has hit the market at...
Shea Properties Breaks Ground on 118,000 SQFT Shea Center Industry in City of Industry
Aliso Viejo-based Shea Properties has started building Shea Center Industry, a two-building, 118,232-square-foot Class A warehouse and distribution project in the eastern San...
California Exports Climb 15% to $17.7 Billion as Diesel Costs at LA, Long Beach Ports Surge 61%
California shipped $17.696 billion in goods abroad in August, a 15.2 percent annual gain led by electronics and farm exports, Beacon Economics reports,...
Pasadena Unified’s 110-Unit Staff Housing at Former Roosevelt Elementary Heads to Design Approval
Pasadena Unified School District's plan to turn the shuttered Roosevelt Elementary campus into 110 below-market rental homes reserved for its own teachers and...
The Bloc’s 1,400,000 SQFT Office, Retail and Parking Hit the Market in Downtown Los Angeles as Pricing Firms
The office tower, open-air retail and parking garage at The Bloc, the full-block campus at 7th and Flower streets that was bought for...
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...
California Exports Climb 15% to $17.7 Billion as Diesel Costs at LA, Long Beach Ports Surge 61%
California shipped $17.696 billion in goods abroad in August, a 15.2 percent annual gain led by electronics and farm exports, Beacon Economics reports,...
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...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
SoCalGas Opens 199,000 SQFT Headquarters at CIM Group’s 2CAL, Keeping 700 Jobs in Downtown Los Angeles
Southern California Gas Company celebrated the opening of its new headquarters at CIM Group's 2CAL tower on Bunker Hill alongside Mayor Karen Bass,...
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...
Bixby Capital Management Refinances Six-Property Portfolio, Including Newport Beach HQ, With $110MM Fixed-Rate Loan
Bixby Capital Management has refinanced a six-property, fully leased portfolio, pairing its own Quail Street headquarters in Newport Beach with five single-tenant industrial...
Envista Holdings Leads Orange County’s Q3 Office Leasing With 118,000 SQFT Relocation to Irvine Spectrum
Dental technology company Envista Holdings has committed to 117,802 square feet across three Irvine Company buildings on Barranca Parkway and Technology Drive, 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...
Lowe, Real Capital Solutions Unveil The Valley, Recasting 1.1MM SQFT Former Westfield Mission Valley as Transit-Oriented Village in San Diego
Three years after buying the aging Westfield Mission Valley from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Lowe and Real Capital Solutions will publicly debut the rebranded The Valley...
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...
Bixby Capital Management Refinances Six-Property Portfolio, Including Newport Beach HQ, With $110MM Fixed-Rate Loan
Bixby Capital Management has refinanced a six-property, fully leased portfolio, pairing its own Quail Street headquarters in Newport Beach with five single-tenant industrial...
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...
The Bloc’s 1,400,000 SQFT Office, Retail and Parking Hit the Market in Downtown Los Angeles as Pricing Firms
The office tower, open-air retail and parking garage at The Bloc, the full-block campus at 7th and Flower streets that was bought for...
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...
Audio-Technica Acquires 9,000 SQFT Hollywood Creative Office Building from BLT Enterprises for $7.25MM
Audio equipment maker Audio-Technica has bought a two-story creative office building on Hollywood's Melrose Avenue for its new Los Angeles headquarters and showroom,...
ICF Leaves County-Owned Gas Company Tower for 3,000 SQFT at Silverstein’s U.S. Bank Tower
Consulting firm ICF is moving its Los Angeles office roughly a block west on Fifth Street, trading the Gas Company Tower that Los...
San Fernando Valley Buyer Acquires 41-Unit North Hollywood Apartments from Kwan Trust for $5.89MM
A San Fernando Valley buyer paid nearly $5.89MM, or $143,610 per unit, for a 41-unit North Hollywood apartment building at a 5.70% cap...
The El Camino Trust Buys 24-Unit Vanowen Apartments in Van Nuys for $5.25MM
The El Camino Trust has acquired Vanowen Apartments, a 24-unit low-rise community at 15022 Vanowen St. in Van Nuys, for $5.25 million, betting...
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...
