California

I haven’t written much about 1031s over the last year or so, but given the 50% increase in capital gains taxes in many circumstances and the 3.8% Net Investment Tax, there’s been a [...]

Recovery has been very slow in the United States commercial real estate office and industrial markets, but falling vacancy and limited new development, from constrained construction financing, [...]

I’m a Santa Monica commercial real estate agent and have a orthodontic client need for 1,200 to 1,700 square feet of net leased retail or office space for orthodontist medical office use in [...]

I’m a Santa Monica commercial real estate agent and have a client need for 800 to 1,200 square feet of net leased retail space for restaurant use in downtown Santa Monica, the village in [...]

New California geological maps released last week show that several new Hollywood commercial real estate developments are within the 500′ fault zone if not right on top of the fault line. [...]

The Los Angeles / long beach area added more real estate construction jobs than any other metro in the country with the exception of Atlanta. The 8% increase places Los Angeles mid pack in [...]

It’s that time of the year again when everyone and their mother posts their yearend review for 2013 and/or forecast for next year, 2014.  I’m not going to do that, but instead linked [...]

I have a Santa Monica commercial real estate client need for a small 600 – 1,000 square foot ground floor space.  Better yet, if it was a formerly a frozen yogurt, ice cream or smoothie [...]

Existing triple net retail commercial property has experienced quite a resurgence over the last couple of years for several reasons. First, new construction of triple net retail commercial [...]

Clients need for medical office lease space of 1,300 to 2,000 sq ft for orthodontics office.  Santa Monica triple net retail space will work provided that it’s also zoned and parked for [...]

As interest rates climb just a bit and cap rates are at what’s likely to be a cycle low, I’m seeing more new or newer developer owned, single tenant, triple net retail or absolute [...]

Client need for modified gross or triple net medical office space in Santa Monica and specifically in 90405.  Must be zoned and parked for medical dental use in the city of Santa Monica. Contact [...]

I get a bunch of calls from proprietors starting a new concept and looking for a new space to lease or investment buyers looking for triple net retail leased properties to purchase so I thought [...]

 July 2013 sales at 25,419 new and resale homes and condos returned to historical normal levels due to increased inventory.  The long term average for July is 25,541 sales. Median price was [...]

Resale home sales were down in June amid a very tight supply, but prices way up.  Bubble time is coming again and then we all know what’s after that.  We generally go approximately 14 years [...]

In DLA Piper’s annual survey of the commercial real estate industry, 85 percent of senior executives at commercial real estate brokerages, REITs, etc., hold a bullish outlook for the remainder of [...]

DQ News reports that Los Angeles and Southern California home sales reached their highest level since 2006 and median price reached five year high. A total of 21,415 new and resale homes were [...]

Median price hits 56 month high, up 23.4 percent from March of last year.  Much of that increase however, can be attributed to a big change in product mix as sales in higher priced neighborhoods [...]

DQ News reports that a total of 15,945 new and resale homes sold in February 2013.  That was down .7 percent from the 16,058 in January, but up 1 percent from the 15,780 sold in February 2012.  [...]

According to CoStar News, sales of commercial real estate in the United States reached $64 billion last year, which is the highest since 2004 and increased 22 percent from 2011. The price gains [...]