Equity Residential’s Southern California Portfolio Lags as Los Angeles Entertainment Drag Persists in Q1 2026
The Chicago-based REIT’s 20,376-unit Southern California footprint posted muted growth as Los Angeles softness offset modest Orange County and San Diego gains. Equity...
Santa Monica Office Demand Stirs Awake as BXP Sees Westside Tenants Hunting Upgrades
The nation’s largest premier workplace REIT logs renewed activity on its 2-million-square-foot LA portfolio after years of dormancy, even as overall submarket vacancy...
Defense Dollars Detonate Across Southern California as Aerospace Cluster Captures $164 Billion Federal Windfall
Record Pentagon budgets, a $6.6 billion Q1 venture capital surge and an Anduril mega-lease are reshaping the South Bay into the nation’s most...
Southern California’s Steady Hand: Essex Posts 2.2% Revenue Growth as Orange County and San Diego Lead the Region
Los Angeles County trailed the rest of Essex’s Southern California portfolio in Q1 2026 as Orange County and San Diego absorbed regional demand...
Rexel USA Renews 130,000 SQFT Industrial Lease in Garden Grove with Goldrich Kest
The electrical supply distributor’s renewal at the West submarket facility reflects the stability of long-tenured industrial occupiers in Orange County. Rexel USA has...
Millennium Partners Trims Beverly Hills Tower to 211 Units, Doubles Affordable Set-Aside Under AB 2011
New York developer abandons discretionary entitlement track for ministerial approval, betting that state housing law clears a faster path through one of California’s...
Brentwood Apartments Trade for $46MM as Westside Scarcity Sets New Benchmark
A pair of multifamily assets totaling 61 units changes hands in one of just five Brentwood transactions of 2026, drawing more than 10...
Private Investor Group Lands Chelsea Apartments in Santa Monica for $33.1MM, Secures 10-Year Fixed Debt
A 53-unit coastal trophy two blocks from the Pacific trades at roughly $625,000 per door as a Venice-based sponsor doubles down on supply-constrained...
D.R. Horton Cuts Forecast as Affordability Bites Into Q2 Margins
America Builder’s $7.6 billion quarter showed disciplined execution, but Northwest closings tumbled 19 percent and gross margins compressed under the weight of elevated...
Lux Flooring Signs 75,000 SQFT New Lease in Santa Fe Springs
Flooring distributor takes down space from K&C Ventures in the Mid-Counties’ largest industrial city, where vacancy ticked higher despite robust gross leasing activity...
Advanced Real Estate Lands SoCal’s Biggest Multifamily Trade of 2026 with $202MM Hollywood Tower Buy from Kilroy
Irvine-based investor scoops up 393-unit Sky Hollywood and Jardine portfolio from Kilroy at $514,000 per unit, betting on an entertainment-capital rebound powered by...
Latitude 33 Recruits Top Talent and Signs New Lease in Los Angeles
Engineering Firm Grows with Key Hire and Larger Downtown LA Office San Diego, CA, April 23, 2026 – As demand for commercial real...
Equity Residential’s Southern California Portfolio Lags as Los Angeles Entertainment Drag Persists in Q1 2026
The Chicago-based REIT’s 20,376-unit Southern California footprint posted muted growth as Los Angeles softness offset modest Orange County and San Diego gains. Equity...
Santa Monica Office Demand Stirs Awake as BXP Sees Westside Tenants Hunting Upgrades
The nation’s largest premier workplace REIT logs renewed activity on its 2-million-square-foot LA portfolio after years of dormancy, even as overall submarket vacancy...
Defense Dollars Detonate Across Southern California as Aerospace Cluster Captures $164 Billion Federal Windfall
Record Pentagon budgets, a $6.6 billion Q1 venture capital surge and an Anduril mega-lease are reshaping the South Bay into the nation’s most...
Southern California’s Steady Hand: Essex Posts 2.2% Revenue Growth as Orange County and San Diego Lead the Region
Los Angeles County trailed the rest of Essex’s Southern California portfolio in Q1 2026 as Orange County and San Diego absorbed regional demand...
D.R. Horton Cuts Forecast as Affordability Bites Into Q2 Margins
America Builder’s $7.6 billion quarter showed disciplined execution, but Northwest closings tumbled 19 percent and gross margins compressed under the weight of elevated...
Advanced Real Estate Lands SoCal’s Biggest Multifamily Trade of 2026 with $202MM Hollywood Tower Buy from Kilroy
Irvine-based investor scoops up 393-unit Sky Hollywood and Jardine portfolio from Kilroy at $514,000 per unit, betting on an entertainment-capital rebound powered by...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
Equity Residential’s Southern California Portfolio Lags as Los Angeles Entertainment Drag Persists in Q1 2026
The Chicago-based REIT’s 20,376-unit Southern California footprint posted muted growth as Los Angeles softness offset modest Orange County and San Diego gains. Equity...
Sony’s Insomniac Games Renews and Expands to 65,000 SQFT at Burbank’s Media Studios Campus
The award-winning video game studio behind Marvel’s Spider-Man deepens its commitment to a campus it has occupied for over two decades. Sony Interactive...
Defense Drone Manufacturer Neros Technologies Subleases 252,000 SQFT Facility in LA’s South Bay
The fast-growing defense startup expands its industrial footprint near its El Segundo headquarters as part of a broader manufacturing scale-up. Neros Technologies, an...
Equity Residential’s Southern California Portfolio Lags as Los Angeles Entertainment Drag Persists in Q1 2026
The Chicago-based REIT’s 20,376-unit Southern California footprint posted muted growth as Los Angeles softness offset modest Orange County and San Diego gains. Equity...
Rancho Mission Viejo Announces 232 New Homes for Village of Rienda Final Phase
Single-family homes in three new all-age neighborhoods from Trumark Homes, Lennar, and Shea Homes coming Fall 2026 Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif. (April 1,...
Orange County Office Availability Falls to Lowest Level Since 2020 as Shrinking Inventory Reshapes the Market
Savills reports a 340-basis-point year-over-year drop in availability and a 4 million-square-foot reduction in office inventory since 2023, while Q1 leasing activity tracks...
Equity Residential’s Southern California Portfolio Lags as Los Angeles Entertainment Drag Persists in Q1 2026
The Chicago-based REIT’s 20,376-unit Southern California footprint posted muted growth as Los Angeles softness offset modest Orange County and San Diego gains. Equity...
Southern California’s Medical Outpatient Sector Faces Diverging Fortunes as Supply Constraints and Policy Risk Reshape the Market
JLL’s 2026 Medical Outpatient Building Perspective finds Los Angeles locked in a near-zero construction pipeline while San Diego builds modest new inventory, even...
Groundworks Signs Long-Term Lease at Investcorp’s 35,000 SQFT Industrial Facility in San Marcos
Cushman & Wakefield represented landlord Investcorp in securing a full-building user along San Diego County’s SR 78 corridor. Cushman & Wakefield has arranged...
Inland Empire Multifamily Rents Inch Higher as Construction Pipeline Contracts Sharply
Kidder Mathews’ 1Q 2026 report finds vacancy holding near 6 percent, average sale prices climbing 6 percent year over year, and new supply...
Five Projects Totaling 6.6MM SQFT Advance in Inland Empire Despite Elevated Vacancy
Developers push forward with major industrial construction across the High Desert, Menifee, and Perris submarkets as the region’s 9.4 million-square-foot pipeline takes shape....
Inland Empire Industrial Market Off to Strong Start in 2026 with $381.6MM in Sales, Falling Vacancy, and Positive Absorption
Net absorption reaches 2.8 million square feet in Q1 2026 as vacancy dips 20 basis points quarter-over-quarter, offering early signs of demand stabilization....
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...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
Inland Empire Industrial Market Off to Strong Start in 2026 with $381.6MM in Sales, Falling Vacancy, and Positive Absorption
Net absorption reaches 2.8 million square feet in Q1 2026 as vacancy dips 20 basis points quarter-over-quarter, offering early signs of demand stabilization....
LA County Industrial Sales Volume Hits $1.2B as Buyers and Sellers Find Common Ground on Pricing
Quarterly sales volume rises 12.9% quarter-over-quarter as the development pipeline hits its steepest decline since the Great Recession. By J.C. Casillas, Managing Director of...
Advanced Real Estate Lands SoCal’s Biggest Multifamily Trade of 2026 with $202MM Hollywood Tower Buy from Kilroy
Irvine-based investor scoops up 393-unit Sky Hollywood and Jardine portfolio from Kilroy at $514,000 per unit, betting on an entertainment-capital rebound powered by...
Three Industrial Developments Totaling 1.43MM SQFT Reshape Supply Pipeline in San Fernando Valley and Ventura County
Stream Realty Partners and Xebec are delivering the region’s most significant new industrial inventory in years as the market prepares for a wave...
Inland Empire Multifamily Rents Inch Higher as Construction Pipeline Contracts Sharply
Kidder Mathews’ 1Q 2026 report finds vacancy holding near 6 percent, average sale prices climbing 6 percent year over year, and new supply...
ChocZero Acquires 59,000 SQFT Industrial Building in Fullerton from Invesco for $20.2MM
The sugar-free confectionery company paid $340 per square foot for the North County property, signaling growing owner-user demand from consumer goods manufacturers. ChocZero,...
Cubework Signs 135,000 SQFT Lease in Santa Ana as Flexible Industrial Space Demand Grows
The coworking warehouse operator leased the space from LBA Logistics in the Airport submarket, reflecting the expansion of flexible-use models into the industrial...
Kilroy Posts Best Q1 Leasing Since 2017 as Southern California Portfolio Anchors 568,000 SQFT Quarter
Los Angeles occupancy climbs while San Diego slips, even as the REIT clears $223MM of SoCal non-core assets and lifts full-year 2026 FFO...
ZDI Acquires 90,000 SQFT Volkswagen-Leased Industrial Facility for $22.7MM in Oxnard
The Ventura County transaction, priced at $253 per square foot, involves a property adjacent to Volkswagen’s Test Center California. ZDI has acquired an...
OC Sanitation District Pays $26.7MM for 62,838 SQFT Industrial Building in Fountain Valley
The public agency acquired the property from Rexford Industrial at $425 per square foot, marking one of the largest owner-user transactions in Orange...
