BlackRock Acquires Camden’s 11-Property, 3,620-Unit Southern California Portfolio for $1.625B
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has taken control of 3,620 apartments across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in a $1.625 billion...
San Diego’s $19 Hospitality Minimum Wage Squeezes 103 Hotels as State Rate Climbs to $17.40
San Diego's $19 hospitality minimum wage hits 103 hotels and major venues as California's statewide rate climbs to $17.40 in 2027.
Federal Housing Law Curbs Wall Street Landlords and Funds Conversions Across Southern California
The sweeping federal housing law signed this summer takes direct aim at the institutional landlords that have concentrated in Southern California’s more affordable...
Acadia Realty Trust Acquires 4,000 SQFT Jacquemus-Leased Melrose Building for $29MM in West Hollywood
Acadia Realty Trust buys the Jacquemus-leased retail building at 8800-8804 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood for $29 million.
Vietnam’s Hasaki Lands 7,000 SQFT Cudahy Lease for First U.S. Store, With Anaheim Location Next
Hasaki, the Alibaba-backed beauty and personal care chain that operates more than 300 stores across Vietnam, has taken 7,000 square feet at an...
Walter N. Marks Clears Final EIR for 42-Story, 348-Unit Mirabel Tower on LA’s Miracle Mile
Los Angeles City Planning has released the Final Environmental Impact Report for Mirabel, clearing the way for an Aug. 27 hearing on the...
Faris Lee Lists Dollar Tree-Anchored Ironwood Plaza, 56,000 SQFT, for $13.2MM in Moreno Valley
A 1987-vintage neighborhood center anchored by an investment-grade Dollar Tree has hit the Inland Empire market at a price below replacement cost, wagering...
Empire Circle, a 54,000 SQFT Multi-Tenant Industrial Campus in San Bernardino, Hits Market at $11.3MM
A three-building, fully leased small-bay industrial campus in San Bernardino has come to market at $11.3 million, testing investor appetite for the Inland...
Owners Seek Rezoning to Replace Orange’s Holiday Skate Center With 46 Townhomes
A family trust that has held the Holiday Skate Center site since the 19th century is asking the City of Orange to rezone...
UCLA Housing Group Acquires 16-Unit Westwood Co-Living Asset for $8.5MM Student Housing Conversion
A newly built co-living complex minutes from UCLA has traded out of receivership to a university-affiliated buyer that plans to convert the property...
Alexandria Clears Just $170MM of $2.9B Disposition Target as San Diego Impairments Signal What Sells Next
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has completed $170.4 million of the $2.9 billion in asset sales it needs to pull off this year, and...
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...
Federal Housing Law Curbs Wall Street Landlords and Funds Conversions Across Southern California
The sweeping federal housing law signed this summer takes direct aim at the institutional landlords that have concentrated in Southern California’s more affordable...
Alexandria Clears Just $170MM of $2.9B Disposition Target as San Diego Impairments Signal What Sells Next
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has completed $170.4 million of the $2.9 billion in asset sales it needs to pull off this year, and...
Universal Music Signs 51,000 SQFT at Kilroy’s Santa Monica Media Center as Southern California Demand Rebuilds
Kilroy Realty pointed to a Universal Music Group lease that filled its Santa Monica Media Center and to firming demand from Beverly Hills...
Southern California Hotel Sales Surge 57% to $990MM in First Half of 2026, Led by Los Angeles
Southern California hotel transactions climbed to 60 in the first six months of 2026 while dollar volume jumped 57 percent to $989.6 million,...
After NeueHouse’s Collapse, Developers Double Down on LA Creator Real Estate
A NeueHouse liquidation and a wave of new creator-focused clubs, campuses and hourly studios are testing whether Southern California's podcasters, YouTubers and influencers...
California’s $17.40 Minimum Wage Takes Effect in 2027, Stacking Onto Southern California Mandates
California's minimum wage climbs to $17.40 in 2027, adding to a stack of Southern California local and sector wage mandates.
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
BlackRock Acquires Camden’s 11-Property, 3,620-Unit Southern California Portfolio for $1.625B
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has taken control of 3,620 apartments across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in a $1.625 billion...
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...
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...
BlackRock Acquires Camden’s 11-Property, 3,620-Unit Southern California Portfolio for $1.625B
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has taken control of 3,620 apartments across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in a $1.625 billion...
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 Acquires Camden’s 11-Property, 3,620-Unit Southern California Portfolio for $1.625B
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has taken control of 3,620 apartments across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in a $1.625 billion...
Quantum-Si Signs 10-Year, 54,000 SQFT Lease at Sterling Bay and Harrison Street’s Pacific Center in San Diego’s Sorrento Mesa
Protein-sequencing company Quantum-Si has committed to 54,374 square feet at Pacific Center in Sorrento Mesa under a 10-year lease that carries 20 months...
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...
BlackRock Acquires Camden’s 11-Property, 3,620-Unit Southern California Portfolio for $1.625B
A BlackRock-managed vehicle has taken control of 3,620 apartments across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in a $1.625 billion...
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: 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...
Universal Music Signs 51,000 SQFT at Kilroy’s Santa Monica Media Center as Southern California Demand Rebuilds
Kilroy Realty pointed to a Universal Music Group lease that filled its Santa Monica Media Center and to firming demand from Beverly Hills...
Step Up Housing Acquires 138-Unit Terramonte at Foothill in Pomona for $36.7MM
Step Up Housing has purchased Terramonte at Foothill, a low-density 138-unit community on Pomona’s Route 66 corridor, wagering that a widening gap between...
Savills Completes $1.11B Acquisition of Santa Monica-Based Eastdil Secured
Savills Plc has closed its roughly $1.11 billion acquisition of Eastdil Secured, the Santa Monica-headquartered capital markets bank, keeping one of the combined...
S3 Hotel Group Buys 149-Room Hyatt House Near John Wayne Airport for $38MM in Irvine
Irvine-based S3 Hotel Group has acquired the 149-room Hyatt House adjacent to John Wayne Airport for $38 million, roughly $4 million below its...
Kilroy Weighs Sale or Re-Lease of 720,000 SQFT El Segundo Campus as DIRECTV-AT&T Lease Nears 2027 Expiration
Kilroy Realty told investors it will pursue either a re-lease or an outright sale of its roughly 720,000-square-foot Kilroy Airport Center in El...
Jamison Pivots to 147-Unit Affordable Complex at 975 S. Manhattan Place in LA’s Koreatown
The Los Angeles developer has scrapped a previously approved 120-unit market-rate apartment plan at 975 S. Manhattan Place in favor of a fully...
UC Regents Acquire 16-Property, 182,000 SQFT Westwood Village Portfolio for $49.8MM from Anderson Family
The Regents of the University of California quietly closed on a 16-parcel block of retail and office space steps from UCLA's campus, deepening...
Southern California Hotel Sales Surge 57% to $990MM in First Half of 2026, Led by Los Angeles
Southern California hotel transactions climbed to 60 in the first six months of 2026 while dollar volume jumped 57 percent to $989.6 million,...
