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LAFPP Doubles Down on Alternatives, Steering $120MM Into Niche Real Estate and Digital Infrastructure
The Los Angeles pension fund’s twin bets on healthcare-driven property and data-center plumbing signal where institutional capital is hunting for returns. The Los...
AvalonBay and Equity Residential Forge $69B Apartment Titan in All-Stock Merger of Equals
The combination of the nation’s two largest multifamily REITs creates a 180,000-unit powerhouse with dominant positions in Los Angeles, New York and Greater...
San Diego’s CRE Recovery Accelerates as Office and Industrial Investors Find Positive Leverage Again
LBA Realty and CBRE leaders point to eight straight quarters of office absorption, a thawing industrial capital market and a diversified Southern California...
Douglas Elliman Lands Mark Cohen to Push Elliman Capital Into California Luxury Market
The brokerage’s in-house mortgage platform enters Los Angeles less than a year after launch, betting that integrated jumbo financing can win business in...
Ontario International Bets On 2.2 Million Summer Passengers as New Routes and World Cup Loom
The Inland Empire gateway is leaning into a decade-long growth streak with expanded service from six carriers, betting that travelers will keep choosing...
Equinix Rides AI Inference Wave to Record Q1 Sales as West Coast Capacity Tightens
The Redwood City data center giant booked its largest sales quarter ever as agentic AI workloads push enterprises off the public cloud and...
Healthcare and New Development Prop Up Orange County as Job Growth Stalls Across Southern California
UCLA Anderson Forecast finds the region’s labor market frozen even as gross county product climbs, with housing affordability and AI-driven layoffs reshaping the...
Blackstone Mortgage Trust Covers Dividend Third Straight Quarter as Platform Pivots Toward Data Centers and Net Lease
The $19.7 billion CRE lender posted a GAAP net loss but distributable earnings cleared the dividend hurdle, signaling that a portfolio reset built...
Apartment Titans AvalonBay and Equity Residential Eye $50B Merger That Could Redraw US Rental Map
The two largest US apartment REITs are in early-stage talks on a combination that would create a roughly 200,000-unit landlord and reignite REIT...
Bay Area Swallows Q1 Venture Capital as Seattle and Los Angeles Fall Further Behind
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI concentrate $221.1 billion in Northern California while Southern California and the Pacific Northwest scrape single-digit billions in a market...
Raintree Partners Sells 153-Unit Axiom Westwood Portfolio Near UCLA for $62.6MM
A Los Angeles family investor picks up the four-building, 384-bed Westwood portfolio in the submarket’s biggest multifamily trade by unit count since 2020....
Carmel Partners Closes Fund 9 at $1.35 Billion
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2026 – Carmel Partners (“Carmel”) announced today the final close of Carmel Partners Investment Fund 9, its U.S. multifamily real estate value...
