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...
Infill Innovation Scales Chalcifica ADU Project to 125 Units in Pacific Beach as Injunction and Investor Suits Persist
Infill Innovation has redrawn Chalcifica, the 136-unit accessory dwelling unit development that became California’s first test case for mega-ADU construction, cutting the count...
Fed Holds Rates Steady in July With Three Dissents as Goldman Sees No Hike Through 2026
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate unchanged at its July meeting despite the closest call on a hike in three decades, offering...
Nayssan’s EJKS Breaks Ground on 102-Unit Apartment Building at 1717 S. Beloit in LA’s Sawtelle
EJKS, LLC, an entity controlled by Los Angeles developer Elliot Nayssan, has started construction on a seven-story, 102-unit apartment building at 1717 S....
LADOT Launches 1.2-Mile Spring-Alameda Safety Overhaul Through Chinatown Development Corridor
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation is reconfiguring 1.2 miles of Spring and Alameda streets with protected bike lanes and rebuilt crossings, reshaping...
Microsoft Stretches Data Center, Office Building Depreciation to 25 Years, Reshaping $175B CapEx Plan
The software giant told analysts on its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call that lengthening the accounting life of its global data centers and offices...
Los Angeles Cracks Gen Z’s Top Five and San Diego Draws Gen X as Younger Movers Blunt California’s Exodus
U-Haul's 2026 midyear migration report finds Los Angeles ranking among the nation's five busiest Gen Z destinations and San Diego landing on Gen...
Onni Group’s 46-Story, 419-Unit Miracle Mile Tower Advances as Draft EIR Lands at 5350 Wilshire
After three dormant years, Onni Group's plan for a 530-foot residential high-rise beside the Wilshire/La Brea subway station has cleared a key procedural...
Mill Creek Residential Unveils Revised Design for 353-Unit Modera Santa Monica at 1633 26th Street
New renderings presented to Santa Monica's Architectural Review Board show a contemporary eight-story building organized around two courtyards on a Kilroy Realty-owned site...
Long Beach Moves 55-Unit, 54,000 SQFT Affordable Housing Project Forward at 1850 Atlantic Ave. on Former Centro CHA Site
A city-owned parcel in Central Long Beach once slated for a workforce center is now poised to deliver 55 units of deeply affordable...
Hudson Pacific Doubles Down on West LA as Hollywood Stages Hold at 96% and Quixote Losses Narrow
Hudson Pacific Properties is concentrating its Los Angeles leasing push on a recovering West Los Angeles market while its Quixote studio restructuring narrows...
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...
Fed Holds Rates Steady in July With Three Dissents as Goldman Sees No Hike Through 2026
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate unchanged at its July meeting despite the closest call on a hike in three decades, offering...
Microsoft Stretches Data Center, Office Building Depreciation to 25 Years, Reshaping $175B CapEx Plan
The software giant told analysts on its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call that lengthening the accounting life of its global data centers and offices...
Los Angeles Cracks Gen Z’s Top Five and San Diego Draws Gen X as Younger Movers Blunt California’s Exodus
U-Haul's 2026 midyear migration report finds Los Angeles ranking among the nation's five busiest Gen Z destinations and San Diego landing on Gen...
Alexandria Captures 1.7x Its Market Share of San Diego Leasing as 427,000 SQFT Bristol Myers Squibb Hub Delivers
Alexandria Real Estate Equities leased nearly twice its market share in San Diego during the second quarter and handed Bristol Myers Squibb a...
Kalanick’s Atoms Opens a Second Front in Los Angeles’ Air-Taxi Land Grab
Joby Aviation has hired Travis Kalanick's Atoms to acquire and build its air-taxi stations in California, giving the company a capitalized ground-up developer...
Federal Housing Law Curbs Wall Street Landlords and Funds Conversions Across Southern California
The sweeping federal housing law signed this summer takes direct aim at the institutional landlords that have concentrated in Southern California’s more affordable...
Southern California Commercial Real Estate News
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...
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...
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...
Shea Homes Acquires 1-Acre Uptown Newport Site for 23 Condos as Chip Fab Lease Pushes Master Plan’s Final 690 Units to 2030
Shopoff Realty Investments has sold another entitled pad inside its 25-acre Uptown Newport master plan in Newport Beach, this time to Shea Homes...
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...
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...
La La Land Café Signs First San Diego Lease at Brixton’s Del Mar Plaza, Taking 1,000 SQFT Mezzanine Terrace
Brixton Capital has landed viral coffee and matcha chain La La Land Café for the oceanview mezzanine terrace at its Del Mar Plaza...
Quantum-Si Signs 10-Year, 54,000 SQFT Lease at Sterling Bay and Harrison Street’s Pacific Center in San Diego’s Sorrento Mesa
Protein-sequencing company Quantum-Si has committed to 54,374 square feet at Pacific Center in Sorrento Mesa under a 10-year lease that carries 20 months...
Apple Renews 197,000 SQFT in San Diego’s Rancho Bernardo, Anchoring the Quarter’s Largest Office Lease
Apple’s decision to renew nearly 197,000 square feet at 16620 West Bernardo Drive single-handedly propelled the I-15 Corridor to the top of San...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hudson Pacific Doubles Down on West LA as Hollywood Stages Hold at 96% and Quixote Losses Narrow
Hudson Pacific Properties is concentrating its Los Angeles leasing push on a recovering West Los Angeles market while its Quixote studio restructuring narrows...
Olson Company Buys 120,000 SQFT Monterey Park Office Campus for $24.85MM, Plans Residential Redevelopment
Homebuilder The Olson Company has paid $24.85 million for a two-building office campus in Monterey Park once occupied by Blue Shield of California,...
Downtown Women’s Center’s 98-Unit Rosa’s Place Tops Out at 501 East 5th Street in Downtown Los Angeles
Construction of Rosa's Place, a seven-story development that will deliver 97 permanent supportive housing units for women exiting homelessness at 501 East 5th...
Peninsula Land & Capital Buys 56,000 SQFT The Station in El Segundo for $26.85MM, 13% Below Seller’s 2021 Basis
A Palo Alto investment firm best known for Silicon Valley office and R&D holdings has pushed into the South Bay, paying $26.85 million...
DLR Group Adds San Diego Lab Specialist McFarlane Architects to Deepen Life Science Practice
The global design firm DLR Group has acquired McFarlane Architects, a San Diego science and technology specialist, giving the 1,800-person employee-owned firm an...
Alexandria Captures 1.7x Its Market Share of San Diego Leasing as 427,000 SQFT Bristol Myers Squibb Hub Delivers
Alexandria Real Estate Equities leased nearly twice its market share in San Diego during the second quarter and handed Bristol Myers Squibb a...
Macerich Lands Flagship Zara and 142,000 SQFT Dick’s House of Sport at Los Cerritos Center
Macerich is rebuilding Los Cerritos Center around two anchors it says are already lifting traffic and rents, a second flagship Zara due in...
Shea Homes Acquires 1-Acre Uptown Newport Site for 23 Condos as Chip Fab Lease Pushes Master Plan’s Final 690 Units to 2030
Shopoff Realty Investments has sold another entitled pad inside its 25-acre Uptown Newport master plan in Newport Beach, this time to Shea Homes...
