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GID Investment Management Buys 305-Unit Windsor Mission Valley in San Diego for $148.5MM

The Mission Valley acquisition ranked as the largest San Diego apartment sale of the second quarter and set the county's high-water mark for...

JAMS Renews 31,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s Jamboree Center as Landlord’s Portfolio Hits 91% Leased

JAMS, the largest private provider of arbitration and mediation services in the United States, has renewed its 31,400-square-foot commitment at Irvine Company's Jamboree...

FieldAI Grabs 41,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s 3 Morgan as Robotics Startup Powers Into Irvine Spectrum

FieldAI, a robotics and physical-AI startup valued at roughly $2 billion, has leased 41,400 square feet at Irvine Company's 3 Morgan research-and-development building...

LA and San Diego Anchor Southern California Tech Talent as AI Realignment Sorts the Region

Southern California's tech talent markets diverged sharply in CBRE's latest rankings, with Los Angeles-Orange County and San Diego holding places in the upper...

California’s Renter Majority Stays Cost-Burdened as Los Angeles Rent Growth Stalls at 0.2%

A statewide snapshot compiled in Los Angeles counts more than 16 million California renters and finds nearly 42 percent struggling to afford rent,...

R.D. Olson’s $225MM Dana Point Harbor Hotels Left in Limbo After Second Failed Lease Vote

A ground-lease impasse at the Orange County Board of Supervisors has stalled the two waterfront hotels planned for Dana Point Harbor, pushing their...

Meridian Property Company Buys 32,052 SQFT Pasadena Medical Office Building for $13.35MM

Meridian Property Company closes on Pasadena’s California Medical Building for $13.35 million and simultaneously locks in a Huntington Health-affiliated tenant for half the...

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Hackman Capital Defaults on $100MM Loan, Sending 182,000 SQFT Former Sony Animation Campus to Auction in Culver City

Hackman Capital Partners' surrender of its long-vacant Culver City creative-office trophy to a Goldman Sachs-backed lender deepens a year of distress that has...

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Poole Properties Sells 13,900 SQFT Corona del Mar Retail Property for $13.7MM in Newport Beach

An 80-year family legacy sold to the highest of more than ten bidders, proof that in Corona del Mar, irreplaceable frontage and a...

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Jenson Capital Clears Planning Commission for 39-Unit Apartment Building at 10535 Missouri Ave. in West Los Angeles

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has cleared Jenson Capital to raze a duplex and a single-family home near Santa Monica Boulevard and...

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Surge in Aerospace & Defense Funding Drives Record Southern California Leasing Demand

A surge of venture capital flowing into Southern California's aerospace and defense companies is translating directly into industrial real estate, driving record leasing...

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L.A. Permits More Than 8,800 Homes in First Half of 2026, Nearly Tripling Year-Ago Pace as Economic Headwinds Build

A rebound in residential permitting pushed Los Angeles past a full year's worth of housing approvals in just six months, but new research...

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FeaturedFinanceIndustry NewsResidentialSan Diego

GID Investment Management Buys 305-Unit Windsor Mission Valley in San Diego for $148.5MM

The Mission Valley acquisition ranked as the largest San Diego apartment sale of the second quarter and set the county's high-water mark for...

LA and San Diego Anchor Southern California Tech Talent as AI Realignment Sorts the Region

Southern California's tech talent markets diverged sharply in CBRE's latest rankings, with Los Angeles-Orange County and San Diego holding places in the upper...

California’s Renter Majority Stays Cost-Burdened as Los Angeles Rent Growth Stalls at 0.2%

A statewide snapshot compiled in Los Angeles counts more than 16 million California renters and finds nearly 42 percent struggling to afford rent,...

Surge in Aerospace & Defense Funding Drives Record Southern California Leasing Demand

A surge of venture capital flowing into Southern California's aerospace and defense companies is translating directly into industrial real estate, driving record leasing...

Lennar Advances 1,251-Home Shafter Neighborhood Squarely in California High-Speed Rail’s Path

Homebuilder Lennar has secured tentative Shafter approval for the final phase of its Gossamer Grove community, planting more than 1,200 single-family lots directly...

Kern County Pension Commits $160MM to Real Estate Debt, Backing Hudson Bay, TPG and Hines Funds

The $6 billion Bakersfield pension fund split its latest real estate wager across three sharply different lending plays — opportunistic East Coast debt,...

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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...

Orange County and San Diego Lead Southern California Rebound in Summer 2026 Allen Matkins Survey as Multifamily Construction Pulls Back

Southern California’s commercial real estate recovery is broadening across office, industrial, and retail, but a sharp retreat in multifamily construction plans signals that...

Lincoln Property Sells 282,000 SQFT Orange Center Tower for $63MM in Orange, a $29MM Loss

Lincoln Property Company has unloaded the 14-story Orange Center Tower across from Angel Stadium in the City of Orange for $63.1 million, absorbing...

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...

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...

Orange County and San Diego Lead Southern California Rebound in Summer 2026 Allen Matkins Survey as Multifamily Construction Pulls Back

Southern California’s commercial real estate recovery is broadening across office, industrial, and retail, but a sharp retreat in multifamily construction plans signals that...

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...

Orange County and San Diego Lead Southern California Rebound in Summer 2026 Allen Matkins Survey as Multifamily Construction Pulls Back

Southern California’s commercial real estate recovery is broadening across office, industrial, and retail, but a sharp retreat in multifamily construction plans signals that...

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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....

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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.

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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,...

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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...

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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)...

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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...

Surge in Aerospace & Defense Funding Drives Record Southern California Leasing Demand

A surge of venture capital flowing into Southern California's aerospace and defense companies is translating directly into industrial real estate, driving record leasing...

MobilityWare Lands 51,000 SQFT at Irvine Company’s 440 Exchange as Tech Powers 11MM SQFT Leasing Year

Mobile game developer MobilityWare has committed to 50,900 square feet at Irvine Company's 440 Exchange in the Irvine Spectrum, a technology-driven deal that...

Long Beach City College Razes 70-Year-Old Veterans Memorial Stadium for $250MM, 18-Acre Sports Complex

Long Beach City College has begun tearing down the 70-year-old Veterans Memorial Stadium to make way for an 18-acre, $250 million athletic and...

Lennar Advances 1,251-Home Shafter Neighborhood Squarely in California High-Speed Rail’s Path

Homebuilder Lennar has secured tentative Shafter approval for the final phase of its Gossamer Grove community, planting more than 1,200 single-family lots directly...

La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club Launches $40MM Guest-Room Phase of $60MM Renovation, Targeting Memorial Day 2027

La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club has launched the guest-room phase of a $60 million overhaul of its 21-acre oceanfront property, the largest...

Advantech Lands in Tustin with 189,000 SQFT North American Headquarters on Former Marine Base

Taiwanese industrial-computing giant Advantech has consolidated its North American operations into a new 10-acre, two-building campus at Tustin Legacy, staking a long-term claim...

Turtle Creek Apartments Trades for $34.5MM in Riverside at 4.33% Cap Rate

CBRE brokers the $34.5MM sale of the 98-unit Turtle Creek Apartments in Riverside, including a rare HUD loan assumption at a 4.33% cap...

45,700 SQFT Former Best Buy Site Near Village at Orange Mall Trades for $24.3MM

A vacant big-box building next to one of Orange County’s aging enclosed malls just sold for more than $500 per square foot —...