Los Angeles

I’ve had a number of calls lately from small multiunit residential owners wanting to 1031 exchange out of their property into Columbus or Los Angeles commercial property for sale.  The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

DQ News reported solid gains for the first month of 2013 with 16,058 new and resale homes sold in January.  This number is down 20.8 percent from December 2012, but up 10.6 percent from a year [...]

CoStar News reports that new apartment construction at four or five times the national average for other types of commercial construction in certain markets will cause vacancies to increase. [...]

A total of 20,274 new and resale houses and condos sold in December 2012, which is up 5.1 percent from the 19,285 in November 2012 and up 5.3 percent from the 19,247 sold in December 2011.  Sales [...]

According to Data Quick, 19,285 new and resale houses and condos sold in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange counties in November 2012.  Sales were down 8.5 [...]