San Francisco
Cityview Recruits Multifamily Veteran Gabi Franco to Lead Development and Value-Add Portfolio
Los Angeles-based multifamily investor and developer Cityview has hired industry veteran Gabi Franco as managing director of asset management, handing him command of...
Suffolk Taps 30-Year Healthcare Veteran to Run Newport Beach Office as Orange County Hospital Pipeline Tops $5B
Suffolk has hired healthcare construction veteran Bobby Eagar as senior vice president and Orange County division manager, a move that puts three decades...
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...
California’s Share of U.S. Export Trade Slips to 8% as Real Shipment Value Falls
California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national...
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,...
California Clinches Nation’s No. 2 GDP Growth at 3.7% in First Quarter
California’s economy grew at a 3.7 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest pace in the country, as a...
AI Data Center Market on Track to Hit $810.6B by 2033 as Enterprises Pour Capital Into Computing Infrastructure
A new Grand View Research study forecasts the global AI data center market will more than quintuple to $810.6 billion by 2033, with...
Dueling Transfer Tax Measures Put Billions in California Real Estate Revenue on the Line
A Howard Jarvis ballot initiative and a last-minute legislative compromise, AB 736, are racing toward a June 25 deadline that will determine how...
Trump Stalls Landmark Housing Bill Over Voter-ID Fight, Leaving West Coast Investors in Limbo
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the biggest federal housing package in a generation, cleared Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, but President...
Plug-In Solar Bill Advances in Sacramento, Aiming at SoCal’s Nation-Leading Power Bills for Renters
A bipartisan measure to deregulate small, portable solar systems is moving through the Legislature, and nowhere are the stakes higher than in Southern...
California Exports Climb 7.7% in April, But Gains Reflect Pre-War Orders, Beacon Economics Says
California’s merchandise exports posted a solid year-over-year gain in April even as the state ceded ground to Texas on both sides of the...
Earlytrade Raises $25MM to Deploy Agentic AI Across the Construction Payments Ecosystem
S3 Ventures & Brick & Mortar Ventures lead Series A as Earlytrade posts 7X US revenue growth; Scott Wolfe, founder of Levelset, joins...
