Santa Monica

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Daily finance had an interesting interview with Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.  Jeff Speck is an architect and city planner in Washington [...]

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.  [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

New data show major rebound in both commercial and residential construction led almost entirely by multifamily and single family development. Developers and builders started construction on the [...]

What I have been experiencing over the last two or three quarters in regards to triple net or absolute net, single tenant retail seems to be reality according many in the industry, including Mark [...]

According to DQ News, home sales in Loa Angeles and Southern California rang in at 17,859, which is a 20.4 percent drop from the 22,438 sales in August 2012 and down 1.6 percent from 18,149 in [...]

According to DQ News, Southern California home sale rose to a six year high for the month of August.  A total of 22.438 new and resale homes sold in Southern California.  That’s up 9% from July [...]