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Southern California Hotel Openings Surge 128% as Gaylord Pacific in Chula Vista Anchors 2025 Rebound
Region adds 3,500+ rooms while pipeline contracts, reflecting cautious financing climate and replacement-cost focus statewide Southern California’s hotel market experienced a sharp acceleration...
Orange County Multifamily Market Tightens as Cap Rates Expand 60 Basis Points YoY
Average rents climb to $2,679 per unit while vacancy holds at 3.8 percent Orange County’s multifamily market closed 2025 with vacancy holding steady...
Laguna Niguel City Center Moves Forward with $260MM Redesign as Office Component Slashed
Orange County supervisors have approved a significantly revised plan for the long-awaited Laguna Niguel City Center, marking a turning point for a mixed-use...
Los Angeles Industrial Vacancy Hits 7.1% as Absorption Turns Negative by 2MM SQFT in Q4 2025
Warehouse rents fall for the 11th straight quarter even as port volumes and logistics leasing offer signs of stability A period of reassessment...
Orange County Retail Holds at 3.6% Vacancy as Prices Rise to $551 Per SQFT in Q4 2025
Cap rates compress to 5 percent while 295,304 SQFT is under construction and net absorption turns positive The Orange County retail market closed...
Los Angeles Office Market Slows Further as Vacancy Hits 16% and Sales Volume Falls 59%
Leasing drops to 2.6 million square feet while average rents hold at $3.48 per square foot The Los Angeles office market closed 2025...
U.S. Housing Construction Starts Slide 4.2% to a 1.25MM Pace as Builders Pull Back
Elevated inventories, affordability pressures and uneven demand keep residential construction subdued After several years in which housing construction helped buffer the economy against...
Data Challenges Narrative on Institutional Investors and Homeownership Crisis
U.S. Lost 1.5 Million Single-Family Rentals as Individual Homebuyers Outcompeted Investors, Contradicting Claims About Institutional Impact on Affordability The heated debate over institutional...
Meta Housing Secures Ground Lease and $57.7MM Construction Loan for 207-Unit Affordable Housing Project in Woodland Hills
Los Angeles developer closes 99-year ground lease with Safehold and construction financing for Warner Center development set for 2028 completion Safehold Inc. has...
Crescent Hotel Group Plans 13-Story Mixed-Use Project in Inglewood
Developer Secures Key Land Use Approval for Major Hotel-Residential Complex 4200 West Century Associates has received Planning Commission approval for a General Plan...
Bank OZK Sells $265MM Life Sciences Construction Loan for Sterling Bay’s 500,000 SQFT Pacific Center Property in Sorrento Mesa
In a move that breaks from its traditional playbook, Arkansas-based Bank OZK has unloaded one of its largest construction loans, marking what analysts...
Cypress Equity, LWK Partners & Sabal Investment Acquire 75-unit Los Angeles Workforce Housing Portfolio for $30MM
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7, 2026 — Cypress Equity Investments (“CEI”), an institutional multifamily developer and real estate investment company, LWK Partners (“LWK”), a real estate...
