People love to travel in style, so why not live in style? As the multifamily market continues to boom, and we see an increase in the development of new multifamily units, the competition is fierce, and operators will need to [...]
Are Multifamily and Retail Carrying Downtown LA? Retail and multifamily lead activity has come back in Downtown Los Angeles is a positive way and both sectors are fueling the next phase of the renaissance and driving growth within other sectors [...]
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is seeing the biggest development boom since the 1920s! As Bisnow puts it, “the revival of downtown Los Angeles tells a story of a comeback.” For decades, downtown LA has seen, violence, crime, urban flight, and [...]
Up front, commercial redevelopers have to pour a lot of money into their projects. Often these properties span 50K square feet or more. They become the central point for business districts in cities across America. Today’s redevelopment projects are largely [...]
Recently, the occupancy and absorption rates for industrial on the West Coast went down for the first time in several years. CoStar reports that despite the unexpected dip, industrial will recover in 2018, though headwinds loom in 2019. California Industrial [...]
Experts say that there is a slow down happening in the U.S. office market right now. The labor market is crowded and now there’s a flood of new developments coming online, both adding to the slowing office market. But in [...]
At the end of March this year, bank regulators announced a change to rules that were implemented after the financial collapse a decade ago to reign in reckless bank lending. This rule will relax regulations on commercial real estate lending, [...]
Multifamily and industrial loan seekers are more likely to receive a loan than other type of commercial project thanks to California's high demand for these spaces. There is a housing shortage and an e-commerce boom in southern California so strong [...]
According to a 2016 survey, the vast majority of lenders expect that fintech will be at the heart of changes occurring in the sector over the next two years, calling the level of disruption “unprecedented” and universal. By equalizing opportunities [...]
Adding up all of the snares coming developers’ way from uncertain tax and regulatory policies, housing shortages, slow new construction, to several unpredictable wildfires and hurricanes, commercial development experienced somewhat of a shake up over the last year. Yet, according [...]
News that tech startups and residents alike have been moving out of Southern California due to rising prices is missing a big development – surprise! It’s office development on the rise in L.A. Office construction is picking up across the [...]
In cities nationwide, housing markets are tightening amid shrinking inventories while new construction projects have slowed and mortgage rates have been on the rise. Fundamentals in multifamily and industrial look good, but why the chatter of a lending pullback? Some [...]
Good news for people: today’s aging seniors are living longer than earlier generations. That's good news for real estate. Metropolitan areas across the United States report growth in the senior housing market and the need for more facilities will increase [...]
Shine the spotlight on Los Angeles because the market fundamentals are hot! Insiders know about tight the supply in the housing market as the metropolitan population keeps growing. That same population expansion influences commercial real estate submarkets like multifamily and [...]
Developers have always done their best to predict the up-and-coming neighborhoods ripe for getting in on the ground floor. Today finding new investment properties ready for development is less of a mystic art and more science. New data sources and [...]
