Swarco Buys 70,000 SQFT Vista Industrial Building for $21.7MM
Traffic-technology firm Swarco has acquired a 70,253-square-foot industrial building at 2365 Oak Ridge Way in Vista from JBM Properties for $21.7 million, one...
Zoox Plans San Diego Depot as Robotaxi Buildout Meets a Softening Industrial Market
Zoox will put sensor-equipped test vehicles on San Diego streets this month and plans to build a local charging and maintenance depot, arriving...
San Diego Office Vacancy Holds at 13.4% as Investors Circle Well-Located Assets in 2Q 2026
San Diego's office market stayed on stable footing through the second quarter of 2026 even as occupiers kept trimming footprints, with steady leasing...
San Diego Industrial Vacancy Climbs to 7.4% as Amazon and Waymo Anchor Selective 2Q 2026 Leasing
San Diego's industrial market softened modestly in the second quarter of 2026, with vacancy ticking up and leasing cooling, even as positive year-to-date...
Barnes & Noble Backfills Former Sport Chalet Box with 27,000 SQFT Store at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa
Barnes & Noble has re-tenanted a long-vacant big-box space on the upper level of South Coast Plaza, opening a 27,000-square-foot store that returns...
Inglewood Approves $261MM Public-Private Deal to Rebuild Downtown and Move Event Crowds by 2028
The Inglewood City Council has awarded a Plenary Americas-led consortium a fixed-price, $261 million contract to build three mobility hubs, a pedestrian bridge...
CEDARst Secures $80MM Construction Loan for 197-Unit North Park Development
The financing lands in a North Park submarket where older, stabilized apartment stock continues to command strong tenant demand even as citywide vacancy...
Skanska Lands $57MM Contract to Widen El Camino Real, Replace San Dieguito River Bridge in Del Mar
Two decades after San Diego officials first began studying how to fix one of North County’s most congested chokepoints, the city has finally...
California Data Center Energy Deal Lands as Southern California Cities Move to Ban the Facilities
A two-bill compromise finalized in Sacramento on Friday would hand California regulators new power over data center electricity rates, arriving as a wave...
Radha Group Breaks Ground on 81-Unit, 66,000 SQFT Mixed-Use Project at 11905 Wilshire in Brentwood
Radha Group and development partner Willow Street Capital have started construction on a seven-story apartment and retail building at 11905 Wilshire Boulevard, closing...
Litwin Management Acquires 80,000 SQFT Poway Marketplace for $26.5MM
Litwin Management purchased the 79,853-square-foot Poway Marketplace from Fortress Investment Group and Prism Places for $26.5 million, the largest retail sale in San...
Los Angeles Reopens Historic Vision Theatre in Leimert Park After Nearly $40MM, 15-Year Restoration
After a decade and a half of stop-and-start construction, the City of Los Angeles has reopened Leimert Park's Vision Theatre, betting nearly $40...
San Diego Office Vacancy Holds at 13.4% as Investors Circle Well-Located Assets in 2Q 2026
San Diego's office market stayed on stable footing through the second quarter of 2026 even as occupiers kept trimming footprints, with steady leasing...
San Diego Industrial Vacancy Climbs to 7.4% as Amazon and Waymo Anchor Selective 2Q 2026 Leasing
San Diego's industrial market softened modestly in the second quarter of 2026, with vacancy ticking up and leasing cooling, even as positive year-to-date...
California Data Center Energy Deal Lands as Southern California Cities Move to Ban the Facilities
A two-bill compromise finalized in Sacramento on Friday would hand California regulators new power over data center electricity rates, arriving as a wave...
Multifamily Captures Two-Thirds of Orange County’s $664MM July Investment Volume
Orange County's commercial investment market narrowed in July as multifamily captured nearly two-thirds of dollar volume on fewer but significantly larger deals, while...
Trammell Crow Residential’s 531-Unit Alexan Camellia Puts Kearny Mesa’s 27,000-Home Plan to the Test
The opening of Trammell Crow Residential's 531-unit Alexan Camellia at 4888 Convoy St. gives the 2020 Kearny Mesa Community Plan its first completed...
San Diego Apartment Demand Jumps 39% as Developers Pull Back on New Construction
San Diego's apartment market absorbed renters at a sharply faster clip through the first half of 2026 even as a wave of new...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
16-Unit Pico-Robertson Apartment Building Trades for $5.3MM After 23-Year Hold
The sale of 1476 S. Shenandoah St. closes out more than two decades of single-family ownership in one of the Westside’s more tightly...
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...
Hudson Pacific, Blackstone’s $1.1B Hollywood Studio Loan Lands in Special Servicing Ahead of Maturity
The $1.1 billion CMBS loan backing Hudson Pacific Properties and Blackstone's marquee Hollywood studio-and-office portfolio has been handed to a special servicer just...
Barnes & Noble Backfills Former Sport Chalet Box with 27,000 SQFT Store at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa
Barnes & Noble has re-tenanted a long-vacant big-box space on the upper level of South Coast Plaza, opening a 27,000-square-foot store that returns...
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...
Yamaha Markets 25-Acre, 279,000 SQFT Cypress Campus for Sale as It Exits California for Georgia
Yamaha Motor Corporation U.S.A. has tapped Avison Young to sell its 25-acre Cypress headquarters campus and will permanently close its finance division's facility...
Swarco Buys 70,000 SQFT Vista Industrial Building for $21.7MM
Traffic-technology firm Swarco has acquired a 70,253-square-foot industrial building at 2365 Oak Ridge Way in Vista from JBM Properties for $21.7 million, one...
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...
120-Townhome Ponto Plan Heads to Coastal Commission as Carlsbad Park Campaign Makes Its Last Stand
A pending application to build 120 rental townhomes on an 11-acre coastal parcel in south Carlsbad is advancing toward an October California Coastal...
California Data Center Energy Deal Lands as Southern California Cities Move to Ban the Facilities
A two-bill compromise finalized in Sacramento on Friday would hand California regulators new power over data center electricity rates, arriving as a wave...
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...
Wood Investments Opens 150,000 SQFT Target at Plaza de Perris in Perris
Wood Investments Companies has re-anchored its Plaza de Perris center in Riverside County by demolishing a closed movie theater and replacing it with...
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....
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.
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...
Kennedy Wilson Recruits Jamison’s Jaime Lee to Drive Capital Formation Across $37B Platform
Kennedy Wilson has hired Jaime Lee, who spent more than two decades at Jamison and ran the family-controlled developer as chief executive, to...
Litwin Management Acquires 80,000 SQFT Poway Marketplace for $26.5MM
Litwin Management purchased the 79,853-square-foot Poway Marketplace from Fortress Investment Group and Prism Places for $26.5 million, the largest retail sale in San...
Premier Workspaces Expands Fashion Island Presence With New Flexible-Office Center at Irvine Company’s Corporate Plaza in Newport Beach
The flexible-workspace operator has opened a fully furnished coworking and executive-suite center at 1400 Newport Center Drive, deepening a foothold in one of...
Schnitzer Properties Acquires 173,000 SQFT Camino Santa Fe Business Park in San Diego for $58MM
Schnitzer Properties Management has acquired the 172,504-square-foot Camino Santa Fe Business Park in San Diego's Mira Mesa/Miramar submarket from Westport Capital Partners for...
MDH Partners Acquires 152,000 SQFT Serrano Industrial Park in Jurupa Valley, Pushing California Portfolio Past 1.5MM SQFT
The Atlanta-based industrial investor picked up two of the three Class-A manufacturing buildings on Serrano Drive, wagering that a 12,000-amp power draw almost...
Multifamily Captures Two-Thirds of Orange County’s $664MM July Investment Volume
Orange County's commercial investment market narrowed in July as multifamily captured nearly two-thirds of dollar volume on fewer but significantly larger deals, while...
Toni Ko Affiliate Lists One Green, 64,000 SQFT Fully Leased Old Pasadena Block, Without an Asking Price
An ownership entity affiliated with beauty entrepreneur Toni Ko has placed One Green, a 100 percent leased mixed-use block spanning nearly the entire...
Trammell Crow Residential’s 531-Unit Alexan Camellia Puts Kearny Mesa’s 27,000-Home Plan to the Test
The opening of Trammell Crow Residential's 531-unit Alexan Camellia at 4888 Convoy St. gives the 2020 Kearny Mesa Community Plan its first completed...