The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
California’s 14 November Ballot Measures Put $11.25B Housing Bond, CEQA Reform and a Billionaire Tax Before Voters
California's Nov. 3 ballot carries 14 measures on housing bonds, a billionaire tax, CEQA reform and property taxes reshaping real estate.
Hollywood Burbank Airport’s $1.3B Elevate BUR Terminal Enters Home Stretch Ahead of October Opening
With crews shifting from steel and structure to systems and interior finishes, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority is now three months from opening a...
San Diego Clears Tri Pointe Homes’ 5,130-Home Southwest Village on 490 Acres in Otay Mesa Over Landowner Objections
San Diego has approved one of the largest master-planned communities in its development pipeline, greenlighting a nearly 490-acre village near the U.S.-Mexico border...
Port of San Diego Opens Public Review on 27-Acre Topgolf and Waterfront Park at East Harbor Island
The Port of San Diego has released a Draft Environmental Impact Report for a proposed redevelopment of East Harbor Island that pairs a...
Orange County Music & Dance Acquires 25,000 SQFT Irvine Building for $10.8MM to Double Campus Footprint
Orange County Music & Dance has closed on a 24,670-square-foot educational building at 17872 Cowan in Irvine, doubling the nonprofit performing arts school’s...
Mesa Biotech Renews 26,000 SQFT Office Lease in San Diego’s Eastgate Submarket
Diagnostics company Mesa Biotech has renewed 26,036 square feet of office space in San Diego’s Eastgate submarket, the region’s standout performer for positive...
Nonprofit n-Lorem Foundation Takes 23,000 SQFT at Alloy Properties’ Elements Campus in Sorrento Mesa
The n-Lorem Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Ionis Pharmaceuticals founder Stanley Crooke to develop free custom genetic medicines for patients whose diseases affect...
Baker Tilly Relocates to 26,000 SQFT Class A Office in San Diego’s UTC
Accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly has relocated to 25,795 square feet of Class A office space in San Diego’s UTC submarket. Baker...
Sanguine Biosciences Leases 7,500 SQFT at Governor Pointe, the Smallest Suite in a 141,214-SQFT Lab Conversion
Sanguine Biosciences, the Los Angeles-area clinical research company that collects biological specimens from patients in their homes, has leased 7,500 square feet at...
CoreCivic Sells Otay Mesa and California City Detention Facilities to Federal Government for $1.5B
CoreCivic has monetized two of its largest California detention properties in a $1.5 billion cash sale to the federal government while holding onto...
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...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
California’s 14 November Ballot Measures Put $11.25B Housing Bond, CEQA Reform and a Billionaire Tax Before Voters
California's Nov. 3 ballot carries 14 measures on housing bonds, a billionaire tax, CEQA reform and property taxes reshaping real estate.
Nonprofit n-Lorem Foundation Takes 23,000 SQFT at Alloy Properties’ Elements Campus in Sorrento Mesa
The n-Lorem Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Ionis Pharmaceuticals founder Stanley Crooke to develop free custom genetic medicines for patients whose diseases affect...
Sanguine Biosciences Leases 7,500 SQFT at Governor Pointe, the Smallest Suite in a 141,214-SQFT Lab Conversion
Sanguine Biosciences, the Los Angeles-area clinical research company that collects biological specimens from patients in their homes, has leased 7,500 square feet at...
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...
California’s Share of U.S. Export Trade Slips to 8% as Real Shipment Value Falls
California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
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...
Reuben Brothers Seize 190-Key West Hollywood Edition From Witkoff in $211MM Deed-in-Lieu
British billionaires Simon and David Reuben have taken ownership of the West Hollywood Edition on the Sunset Strip, closing out a four-year debt...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
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...
Huntington Beach Adopts Court-Ordered Housing Element Zoning for 13,000 Units After $170,000 in Fines
After exhausting its appeals at the state and federal level and watching the meter run on monthly penalties, the Huntington Beach City Council...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
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...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
Kimco Realty Lists Corona Home Depot at Corona Hills Plaza for $29.9MM at 5.35% Cap Rate
Kimco Realty has tapped CBRE to market a corporate-leased Home Depot anchoring the 489,151-square-foot Corona Hills Plaza in Corona, betting that a blue-chip...
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...
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...
Baker Tilly Relocates to 26,000 SQFT Class A Office in San Diego’s UTC
Accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly has relocated to 25,795 square feet of Class A office space in San Diego’s UTC submarket. Baker...
CoreCivic Sells Otay Mesa and California City Detention Facilities to Federal Government for $1.5B
CoreCivic has monetized two of its largest California detention properties in a $1.5 billion cash sale to the federal government while holding onto...
US Property Trust Buys 25,370 SQFT Encinitas Village Square for $25.94MM in North San Diego County
A coastal Encinitas retail center that stayed nearly full through a softening San Diego market has changed hands in the city’s biggest retail...
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...
Deutsche Bank Syndicate Moves to Sell Hackman’s Television City in Los Angeles as Debt Hits $357MM
A lender group led by Deutsche Bank has filed a notice of default on Hackman Capital Partners’ Television City studio in Los Angeles,...
Greystone and Cap Pointe Clinch $104.5MM Muni Bond for 465-Unit SoLa Impact Section 8 Portfolio in Los Angeles
Greystone and Cap Pointe Advisors steered SoLa Impact through the first publicly rated municipal bond financing backed by Section 8 housing, unlocking $104.5...
California’s Share of U.S. Export Trade Slips to 8% as Real Shipment Value Falls
California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national...
Private Investor Buys 52-Unit Fairview Heights Apartment Portfolio in Inglewood for $12.375MM
Four aging apartment buildings clustered along a single Inglewood block traded for $12.375 million to a private local investor, a bet that rental...
