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Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Survey Finds CRE Distress Has Peaked as Deals Close Despite War-Driven Rate Spike
The Summer 2026 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast survey of California commercial real estate sentiment found that industry distress has peaked and transactions are...
California State Workers Weaponize CEQA to Block Newsom’s Four-Day Return-to-Office Order
A union of state attorneys is invoking California’s signature environmental law to halt a return-to-office mandate that would put 90,000 workers back on...
Grupe Company Returns to San Diego After 30 Years with 38-Unit Golden Hill Townhome Project
The Stockton-based developer takes over a stalled Golden Hill site as part of a strategic pivot toward smaller California infill, with pricing aimed...
California Jobs Engine Stalls in April as Unemployment Holds at 5.3%
The state shed 3,300 nonfarm payroll jobs even as a sixth straight monthly drop in the unemployed pool pointed to a labor market...
California Added 28,700 Jobs in March as Unemployment Eased to 5.3%
State posted strongest start to a calendar year since 2022 as health services led gains while professional and business services pulled back, according...
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...
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...
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...
San Diego Council Backs State Bill Shielding 28 Acres of Mission Bay Commercial Sites From Housing Mandate
Unanimous endorsement of AB 2525 escalates a yearlong fight over whether California’s Surplus Land Act can reach into a dedicated public park to...
LA Voters Deliver Two-to-One Mandate for More Housing, Embrace Bigger State Role, Poll Finds
New LABC Institute survey shows Angelenos across income levels demanding faster construction of mixed-income rental housing as production stalls at a fraction of...
California’s AB 2074 Targets Downtown High-Rise Housing with $500MM Revolving Loan Fund
Assemblymember Matt Haney’s Downtown Revitalization Act would mandate by-right residential density near transit in cities of 400,000-plus, directly addressing office-vacancy-driven decline in downtown...
Walmart Commits $1.1B Five-Year Investment to California, Plans 56 Store Remodels in 2026
The world’s largest retailer is modernizing more than four dozen California locations this year as part of a national 650-store overhaul, doubling down...
