Most Palisades and Eaton fire victims would like to return to their homes, but they think the government is failing to make it happen quickly.  That’s what a group of local real estate experts found in a survey asking wildfire victims about their next move, the Los Angeles Times reported. 

Case Study Houses, the post-World War II method of building homes from blueprint catalogs, could make a big comeback in the wake of this year’s deadly Los Angeles wildfires.  Crest Real Estate founder Steven Somers and CEO Jason Somers are looking to the past to rebuild for the future in

Irvine Company plans to add 2,000 apartments to its mixed-use Discovery Park development after unanimous Irvine Planning Commission approval.  The Newport Beach-based firm will build 1,858 apartments near the corner of Laguna Canyon Road and Discovery, the Orange County Business Journal reported. Irvine Company’s plans call for four five-story wrap-style

The Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of increasing the minimum wage for hotel workers to $30 an hour by 2028. Now it heads to Mayor Karen Bass. If she signs, more distress could follow.  Los Angeles’ hotels suffered throughout the pandemic and haven’t totally recovered. Revenues are flat

Retail’s working with a mixed bag. Nowhere was that clearer than this past week when the industry descended in Las Vegas for the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual confab. ICSC estimated more than 20,000 attendees were expected for the Vegas trade show and conference, according to a magazine distributed

Cityview has gotten the green light from the Los Angeles City Council to begin construction on its latest mixed-use apartment complex in Westchester. The approval comes after the project faced an appeal from the Supporters Alliance for Environmental Responsibility (SAFER), an affiliate of Laborers International Union of North America Local

Ethan Penner, the pioneer of commercial mortgage-backed securities, has all but declared he was running for governor of the Golden State. The nonpartisan CEO of Calabasas-based Mosaic Real Estate Investments took aim at Gov. Gavin Newsom while outlining a collaborative approach to addressing the dichotomy of California as the state

A low-rise office building next to Newport Beach’s swanky Fashion Island mall just sold for $11.5 million, fetching $756 per square foot. A local private partnership offloaded Olen Pacific Plaza, located at 1303 Avocado Avenue, with the help of brokers at CBRE, the Orange County Business Journal reported.  The two-floor,

As offices empty out in Downtown Los Angeles, renters have filled up Downtown apartments and put upward pressure on rents. Multifamily occupancy rose to 90.8 percent in the first quarter ending in March, from 90.1 percent a year earlier and up from 84.7 percent in 2019, Bisnow reported, citing figures

Hines has beat back a second appeal trying to block a 13-story office building, winning a final go-ahead in Downtown Los Angeles. The Houston-based developer was approved by the City Council, which denied a labor-backed appeal against the 435,000-square-foot tower at 2045 East Violet Street, in the Arts District, Urbanize