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Decron Properties Lands 163-Unit 5550 Wilshire in LA’s Miracle Mile for $114MM

Decron Properties broke a nearly two-year acquisition pause to buy the 2010-built luxury community from Boston-based GID, betting that irreplaceable Miracle Mile real...

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...

San Diego County Approves Empire II’s 588-Acre Starlight Solar and Battery Project Near Boulevard

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously cleared a major use permit for Empire II's Starlight Solar, a 588-acre solar and battery...

UCLA Researchers Warn AI Data-Center Debt Could Shake the Broader Economy

In their September 2026 Economic Letter, UCLA Anderson Forecast and Ziman Center researchers warn that the heavily leveraged financing behind the national AI...

North Palisade Partners Closes $92MM, 300,000 SQFT Industrial Development on Santee’s Former Drive-In Site

After four years of entitlement work and a 6,268-page environmental review, North Palisade Partners has closed on a $92 million industrial project that...

MW Investment Group Buys 135,308 SQFT Fairway Center II in Brea for $27.85MM

A Laguna Beach developer known mainly for building apartments has moved into North Orange County office ownership, paying $27.85 million for a County...

SuperOrdinary Signs 25,000 SQFT Lease at Pacific Design Center’s Red Building in West Hollywood

Beauty incubator and distribution platform SuperOrdinary has taken 25,000 square feet at Cohen Brothers Realty's Red Building, the largest of a batch of...

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San Diego Approves Amended $255MM Deal to Convert Troubled 101 Ash Tower into 249 Affordable Units, Rebranded 107 Ash Street

The San Diego City Council amended its ground lease with developer 101 Ash Venture LP to advance the $254.7 million conversion of the...

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Lennar Leans on Rate Buydowns to Keep Buyers Qualifying as Affordability Bites

Lennar is engineering affordable monthly payments through rate buydowns, closing-cost help and an 83 percent mortgage-capture rate to keep buyers in the door,...

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Wells Fargo Flags Warehouse Softness and Higher Rates as Inland Empire Risks, With Data Centers Advancing

Wells Fargo's September economic outlook singles out soft warehousing and retail demand alongside a higher floor under interest rates as the chief risks...

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DIG Corporation Leases 34,000 SQFT San Marcos Industrial Building, Filling PRODUCTION Campus

Cushman & Wakefield has leased the last open space at the four-building PRODUCTION campus in San Marcos to irrigation manufacturer DIG Corporation, filling...

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Battery Developers Chase Southern California Industrial Infill as Record Storage Quarter Sharpens Siting Fights

A record 20.2 gigawatt-hour national quarter for battery storage is landing on Southern California as a land story, with developers clearing standing industrial...

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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...

UCLA Researchers Warn AI Data-Center Debt Could Shake the Broader Economy

In their September 2026 Economic Letter, UCLA Anderson Forecast and Ziman Center researchers warn that the heavily leveraged financing behind the national AI...

Lennar Leans on Rate Buydowns to Keep Buyers Qualifying as Affordability Bites

Lennar is engineering affordable monthly payments through rate buydowns, closing-cost help and an 83 percent mortgage-capture rate to keep buyers in the door,...

Wells Fargo Flags Warehouse Softness and Higher Rates as Inland Empire Risks, With Data Centers Advancing

Wells Fargo's September economic outlook singles out soft warehousing and retail demand alongside a higher floor under interest rates as the chief risks...

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...

San Diego Leads Southern California’s Uneven AI Adoption as Business Use Tops 33%

Federal survey data reveal a widening gap inside Southern California, where San Diego businesses have raced past the national AI-adoption rate while Los...

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San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout

A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...

Imperial County Reverses California’s Largest Data Center as Water Fight Heads to Court

Two months after approving a nearly 1 million square foot hyperscale campus, Imperial County reversed course with a moratorium, drawing a lawsuit from...

San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout

A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...

OCVIBE Adds Five Kitchens to 50,000 SQFT Katella Commons as Anaheim District Underwrites Tenant Build-Outs

The Samueli family's OCVIBE has signed five more independent operators into Katella Commons, the 50,000-square-foot Anaheim market hall it is financing down to...

San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout

A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...

Midway Rising’s $3.9B San Diego Redevelopment Clears Sacramento as Risk Shifts From Courtroom to Capital Stack

Two bills enrolled in the final hours of California's legislative session would retire the environmental litigation risk that has stalled the 48-acre Sports...

San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout

A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...

Imperial County Reverses California’s Largest Data Center as Water Fight Heads to Court

Two months after approving a nearly 1 million square foot hyperscale campus, Imperial County reversed course with a moratorium, drawing a lawsuit from...

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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...

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McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins

Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.

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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...

DIG Corporation Leases 34,000 SQFT San Marcos Industrial Building, Filling PRODUCTION Campus

Cushman & Wakefield has leased the last open space at the four-building PRODUCTION campus in San Marcos to irrigation manufacturer DIG Corporation, filling...

CIM Group Taps PIMCO Veteran Adam Lerer as Managing Director to Grow Real Estate Equity Platform

CIM Group has hired nearly two-decade commercial real estate veteran Adam Lerer as Managing Director of Investments, the latest in a run of...

Colliers Markets Defaulted Senior Loan on 969,000 SQFT EY Plaza as Owner-Users Reshape Downtown Los Angeles

Colliers has begun marketing the senior loan secured by EY Plaza, the 41-story Financial District tower operating under a court-appointed receiver, as a...

Self-Help Ventures Fund, LA Más Buy 31-Unit Glassell Park Property for $6.04MM

A 31-unit apartment property in Glassell Park has sold for $6.04 million to a nonprofit partnership planning to keep the buildings affordable for...

$14.8MM Construction Loan Secured for 24-Unit Arcadia Condo Project at 85% LTC

A developer building 24 condominiums in one of the San Gabriel Valley’s tightest for-sale housing markets has locked in construction debt at a...

Staples Net-Lease Sells for $7.7MM Near Rams Village in Warner Center

A single-tenant Staples store sitting on just over an acre in Warner Center has traded for $7.7 million, with the buyer paying for...

Diamond Bar Investor Lists 75,000 SQFT NOVAtime Building in Rancho Cucamonga for $21.85MM

A Diamond Bar private investor has placed the three-story NOVAtime Building at 9680 Haven Avenue on the market as an owner-user play, wagering...

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...