The 2023 collapse of the Skid Row Housing Trust — which provided permanent single-room occupancy housing services to low-income people in the Skid Row area in Los Angeles — is under the magnifying glass in a damning new consultant report.  Low and inconsistent rental subsidies and other structural issues in

Nearly five months after the Eaton fire killed 18 people — 17 of them in west Altadena — investigations continue into what went wrong. Mounting evidence suggests that human error, rather than a technical malfunction, was at the heart of the failure to issue timely evacuation alerts on Jan. 7

It wasn’t enough for State Farm General to win approval to hike homeowner rates by 17 percent this month. Now the insurer wants to jack up rates by another 13 percent. The unit of Illinois-based State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance seeks a 30 percent increase in home insurance premiums because

Luxury broker Kurt Rappaport has for more than 250 days tried to convince buyers to pay $61.5 million for the Holmby Hills mansion owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs, on trial for sex trafficking.  But the co-founder of Westside Estate Agency can’t get a bite for the 17,000-square-foot mansion and guest

“Parties tell you the story,” said NewMark Merrill Companies founder and CEO Sandy Sigal as he held court at his event Monday night on the Las Vegas Strip. “Forget all the statistics and everything else. People are out to have fun and loosen up because it was a stressful year

Stream Realty Partners has been approved to build a 100,000-square-foot speculative warehouse in Cudahy. The Dallas-based developer secured entitlements from Gateway City to build the two-story  industrial building at 4900 Cecilia Street, L.A. Business First reported. It will replace a midcentury manufacturing building. Plans for the warehouse, dubbed Central LA

Bel-Air’s most famous unfinished acropolis is up for auction once again, The Real Deal has learned. Paul Ventura’s Sahara Construction is selling the 1.2-acre site of Mohamed Hadid’s failed spec mansion at 901 Strada Vecchia Road in a sealed-bid auction that runs until July 16, according to a listing posted

Elevate Aircraft Seating has signed a deal for a 280,500-square-foot warehouse in Huntington Beach. The airline seat manufacturer based near Seattle has signed a lease for the two-story office and warehouse at the McDonnell Center Business Park at 5701 Skylab Road, the Orange County Business Journal reported. Terms of the

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt will likely not be able to afford rebuilding their 2,300-square-foot dream home torched by this year’s firestorm in the Pacific Palisades. The reality TV couple who starred in “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills” may not have the scratch to put their home back together at

Los Angeles’ historic Fairfax Theatre is looking for a buyer after partial demolitions cleared the way for a new development.  The 29,000-square-foot lot, once home to the Art Deco venue at 7901-09 Beverly Boulevard, is on the market for $45 million, L.A. Business First reported. The building dates back to