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America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word
While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...
California Voters Sink Prop 40 Billionaire Tax as Real Estate Donors Join $333MM Opposition
The Associated Press called Proposition 40 defeated on Nov. 9, ending a union-backed bid to levy a one-time 5 percent tax on the...
San Diego Office Vacancy Hits Record 23.7% in Yardi Matrix Data as Asking Rents Slide 4.3%
Yardi Matrix data through September put San Diego's office vacancy at an all-time high of 23.7 percent, fourth-highest among major U.S. markets, while...
San Diego Large-Block Tenant Demand Triples Since 2024 as Leases Over 100,000 SQFT Slow, JLL Reports
Companies hunting for at least 100,000 square feet of office or lab space in San Diego County have tripled since early 2024, according...
Macerich’s 2026 Playbook Shows the Mall Market Splitting Into Trophies and Holdouts
Macerich's third-quarter results read like a field guide to the 2026 mall market, with the REIT buying malls again, swapping 6.6 percent mortgage...
One Data Center Campus, One Golf Course: Putting Data Center Water and Power Demand in Perspective
A new First American analysis translates data centers' resource demands into familiar terms, from 27 days of New York City's water supply to...
USC Casden Forecast Sees SoCal Rents Rising Through 2029 as San Diego, Inland Empire Building Pays Off
The 2026 USC Lusk Center Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast projects apartment rents climbing across all five Southern California markets through 2029, but...
Brookfield Hits $26B for Fund VI as Aypa Buy Extends Its Reach Into Southern California Battery Storage
Brookfield Asset Management has secured $26 billion for its sixth flagship infrastructure fund on the heels of agreeing to buy Aypa Power, whose...
Federal Realty’s Q3 Playbook: Sell Coastal Retail in the Mid-5s, Buy Dominant Centers Inland
Federal Realty Investment Trust beat estimates and raised guidance in the third quarter, but the more telling signal is a capital-recycling strategy that...
Prop 45 Falls as L.A. County Voters Reject $41MM Push to Fast-Track CEQA Reviews
Los Angeles County voters joined the Bay Area in turning back Proposition 45, the California Chamber of Commerce's bid to put hard deadlines...
Fashion Island Jumps 14.2% as Orange County’s Top 14 Shopping Centers Ring Up $8B in Taxable Sales
Orange County's 14 largest shopping centers rang up roughly $8 billion in taxable sales over the past year, a 4 percent gain driven...
Raman’s Climate Agenda Puts LA Data Center Builders and Building Owners on Notice
Mayor-elect Nithya Raman wants to pause large-scale data center construction in Los Angeles until operators bring clean power and pay their own infrastructure...
