Ontario International Airport Lands $7.37MM FAA Grant to Rehabilitate North Runway
Ontario International Airport has secured a $7.37 million federal grant to overhaul its north runway, the latest chapter in a decade-long push to...
Walmart Lands 657,000 SQFT Distribution Lease in Jurupa Valley as Inland Empire Rents Slide
Walmart signed one of the Inland Empire’s largest second-quarter industrial leases, taking 656,661 square feet in Jurupa Valley even as regional vacancy holds...
Centric Brands Lands 831,000 SQFT San Bernardino Warehouse in Top Inland Empire Q2 Lease
Brand-management firm Centric Brands has committed to more than 830,000 square feet of distribution space in San Bernardino, one of the largest signings...
Winstar Properties Acquires 205-Unit The Flat in Downtown Los Angeles Through Assignment of Securitized Mortgage
Los Angeles County records show Winstar Properties took control of The Flat, a 205-unit City West apartment tower in Downtown Los Angeles, through...
LA Industrial Absorption Hits Post-2021 High as Rents Slide 10.3% Year-Over-Year
Tenants across Los Angeles County chased down cheaper space in the second quarter, pushing industrial net absorption to its strongest level in five...
Wells Fargo Sees Rates Higher for Longer as AI Data Centers Anchor Commercial Construction
Wells Fargo’s latest U.S. outlook warns that stubborn inflation and a more hawkish Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs elevated into 2027, sustaining...
LA’s Hidden Oil Wells Fuel Health Fears and a Multibillion-Dollar Cleanup Bill
Across Los Angeles, thousands of active, idle and orphaned oil wells sit camouflaged inside fake buildings, behind palm trees and under playgrounds and...
Cypress Weighs Land Sales to Unlock 1,791-Unit Los Alamitos Race Course Redevelopment
Cypress officials advanced but did not finalize the entitlements that would let the owners of the 151-acre Los Alamitos Race Course begin carving...
Laguna Beach Advances Permanent Lifeguard Towers Across 39 Beaches With $281K Stantec Design Contract
Laguna Beach has cleared the engineering hurdle standing between it and a coastline of permanent lifeguard towers, awarding a design contract that will...
Bankruptcy Court Clears $517MM Sale of Downtown LA’s Oceanwide Plaza to KPC-Lendlease Venture, Triggering Graffiti Cleanup
A federal bankruptcy judge confirmed the plan of liquidation for Downtown Los Angeles’ stalled Oceanwide Plaza, handing the graffiti-scarred megaproject to a joint...
Inland Empire Industrial Pipeline Swells to 10,500,000 SQFT as Amazon Anchors Build-to-Suit Wave
Developers pushed Inland Empire industrial construction to 10.5 million square feet in the second quarter, a 3.7-million-square-foot jump over a year earlier, even...
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...
LA Industrial Absorption Hits Post-2021 High as Rents Slide 10.3% Year-Over-Year
Tenants across Los Angeles County chased down cheaper space in the second quarter, pushing industrial net absorption to its strongest level in five...
Wells Fargo Sees Rates Higher for Longer as AI Data Centers Anchor Commercial Construction
Wells Fargo’s latest U.S. outlook warns that stubborn inflation and a more hawkish Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs elevated into 2027, sustaining...
LA’s Hidden Oil Wells Fuel Health Fears and a Multibillion-Dollar Cleanup Bill
Across Los Angeles, thousands of active, idle and orphaned oil wells sit camouflaged inside fake buildings, behind palm trees and under playgrounds and...
Inland Empire Industrial Pipeline Swells to 10,500,000 SQFT as Amazon Anchors Build-to-Suit Wave
Developers pushed Inland Empire industrial construction to 10.5 million square feet in the second quarter, a 3.7-million-square-foot jump over a year earlier, even...
Inland Empire Industrial Vacancy Stuck Near 10% as Asking Rents Keep Falling
The Inland Empire’s industrial market held its vacancy rate at a multi-year high of 9.7 percent in the second quarter of 2026 while...
Comic-Con Locks Into San Diego Through 2030, Anchoring $160MM Annual Hospitality Windfall
San Diego secured a five-year commitment from Comic-Con International that keeps the pop-culture juggernaut and its estimated $160 million in annual regional spending...
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Winstar Properties Acquires 205-Unit The Flat in Downtown Los Angeles Through Assignment of Securitized Mortgage
Los Angeles County records show Winstar Properties took control of The Flat, a 205-unit City West apartment tower in Downtown Los Angeles, through...
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...
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...
Cypress Weighs Land Sales to Unlock 1,791-Unit Los Alamitos Race Course Redevelopment
Cypress officials advanced but did not finalize the entitlements that would let the owners of the 151-acre Los Alamitos Race Course begin carving...
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...
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...
Comic-Con Locks Into San Diego Through 2030, Anchoring $160MM Annual Hospitality Windfall
San Diego secured a five-year commitment from Comic-Con International that keeps the pop-culture juggernaut and its estimated $160 million in annual regional spending...
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...
San Diego VC Funding Nears $5B by Midyear as AI Overtakes Life Sciences in Record 2026 Pace
Venture capital is flooding into San Diego startups at a record clip in 2026, but the money is chasing a different kind of...
Ontario International Airport Lands $7.37MM FAA Grant to Rehabilitate North Runway
Ontario International Airport has secured a $7.37 million federal grant to overhaul its north runway, the latest chapter in a decade-long push to...
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...
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...
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...
Wildwood School Acquires 101,000 SQFT Ocean Park Plaza for $50.6MM in Santa Monica
A private co-educational school has purchased Santa Monica’s largely empty Ocean Park Plaza in an all-cash deal, pulling a full city block of...
Fashion Nova Leases 133,000 SQFT Santa Fe Springs Warehouse From Clarion Partners
Fashion Nova has deepened its Southern California logistics base with a second Santa Fe Springs warehouse lease, betting on fulfillment capacity as Los...
Divergent Technologies Lands 415,000 SQFT Long Beach Industrial Lease as LA Absorption Hits Four-Year High
Divergent Technologies, the Los Angeles-area advanced-manufacturing company known for 3D-printed vehicle and defense structures, signed one of the largest new industrial leases of...
Nuclear Startup Valar Atomics Leases 513,000 SQFT in Torrance as South Bay Powers LA Industrial Rebound
Valar Atomics, the El Segundo nuclear-energy startup racing to commercialize small modular reactors, has signed a 512,500-square-foot lease in Torrance, ranking among the...
Inland Empire Industrial Vacancy Stuck Near 10% as Asking Rents Keep Falling
The Inland Empire’s industrial market held its vacancy rate at a multi-year high of 9.7 percent in the second quarter of 2026 while...
LA Industrial Pipeline Shrinks to 4.9MM SQFT as AB 98 Curbs Development
Los Angeles County’s industrial construction pipeline contracted to 4.9 million square feet in the second quarter of 2026, with every one of the...
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...
Comic-Con Locks Into San Diego Through 2030, Anchoring $160MM Annual Hospitality Windfall
San Diego secured a five-year commitment from Comic-Con International that keeps the pop-culture juggernaut and its estimated $160 million in annual regional spending...
