Southern California
Los Angeles and San Diego Crack Top 20 for U.S. Apartment Absorption in 2026
Los Angeles and San Diego both landed among the nation's 20 strongest apartment markets for net absorption in the first half of 2026,...
Los Angeles Cracks Gen Z’s Top Five and San Diego Draws Gen X as Younger Movers Blunt California’s Exodus
U-Haul's 2026 midyear migration report finds Los Angeles ranking among the nation's five busiest Gen Z destinations and San Diego landing on Gen...
Federal Housing Law Curbs Wall Street Landlords and Funds Conversions Across Southern California
The sweeping federal housing law signed this summer takes direct aim at the institutional landlords that have concentrated in Southern California's more affordable...
California’s $17.40 Minimum Wage Takes Effect in 2027, Stacking Onto Southern California Mandates
California's minimum wage climbs to $17.40 in 2027, adding to a stack of Southern California local and sector wage mandates.
Essex Property Trust Settles RealPage Rent-Algorithm Antitrust Case for $36.5MM
Essex Property Trust used its second-quarter earnings report to disclose it had fully resolved the closely watched antitrust claims tied to RealPage's rent-setting...
Essex’s Southern California Apartments Hold Steady as Orange County Leads Q2 Rent Growth
Essex Property Trust's Southern California apartments delivered steady if unspectacular growth in the second quarter of 2026, with Orange County and Ventura outpacing...
Banc of California Dumps $827MM in CRE and Construction Loans, Swings to $251MM Loss in Balance-Sheet Reset
Los Angeles-based Banc of California absorbed its first quarterly loss in more than two years and moved to shed $827 million of commercial...
Five Point Bets on Land Scarcity at Great Park and Valencia as Home Sales Cool
Five Point Holdings is refusing to discount its Southern California homesites even as builder sales slow, wagering that a shortage of entitled land...
Inland Empire Industrial Investment Sales Surge 150% as Vacancy Stabilizes and Development Cools
Investment activity in the Inland Empire industrial market accelerated through the first half of 2026, with sales volume up 150 percent year over...
WareSpace Grabs 441,000 SQFT Portfolio From Blackstone’s Link Logistics, Planting Flags in San Diego and the Inland Empire
WareSpace closed its first portfolio-level acquisition, paying an undisclosed sum for a five-building, 441,000-square-foot collection sold by Blackstone's Link Logistics, and pushing its...
7 Brew Drives Into San Diego County as Surf 7B Plots Multi-Stand Southern California Rollout
7 Brew, the fast-scaling Arkansas drive-thru coffee brand backed by Blackstone, is entering San Diego County through regional developer Surf 7B, LLC, which...
Prologis Says Southern California Industrial Market Has Bottomed as Inland Empire Leads Recovery
Prologis told investors that Southern California, the nation's largest and most closely watched industrial market, has bottomed and moved into early recovery, with...
