Best Buy signs lease at Clarion Partners’ Compton Brickyard project
Rendering of Brickyard in Compton (The Brickyard) Thanks to Best Buy, Clarion Partners has now fully leased its 58-acre project The Brickyard in Compton. The electronics retailer signed a 10-year lease...
View ArticleTRD’s top stories: How a father-daughter team allegedly defrauded real estate...
Current reader favorites: 1. Inside LA’s alleged $50M EB-5 scam 2. The Real Deal L.A.’s new issue is live! 3. Newmark slapped with sexual harassment lawsuit 4. Malibu mansion trades for near record...
View ArticleSam Nazarian on the LA hotel market and potential merger with Hakkasan Group
Sam Nazarian (Photo courtesy of Matthew Rolston) From the Los Angeles print issue: UPDATED April 18, 10:40 a.m.: Sam Nazarian is the founder and CEO of SBE Entertainment Group, a hospitality firm that...
View ArticleToll Brothers’ Porter Ranch project logs big prices, despite methane leak
Toll Brothers’ new homes in Porter Ranch and CEO Douglas Yearley Jr. It seems that not even a chemical catastrophe could hamper the Southern California housing market. Just 18 months after seeing the...
View ArticleIs the great Chinese Fannie and Freddie selloff finally over?
From TRD New York: If President Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping needed a light topic of conversation for their Florida rendezvous earlier this month, they could have picked mortgages. Trump knows a...
View ArticleLA’s second Whole Foods 365 will open in SaMo
The 365 by Whole Foods store in Silver Lake Santa Monica, brace yourself for cheap La Croix. A new 365 by Whole Foods store is slated to open at a revamped office park at the corner of Pico and...
View ArticleLeaked docs show hotel industry’s role in anti-Airbnb laws
Airbnb founders Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk and Brian Chesky and AHLA’s Katherine Lugar From TRD New York: Newly leaked documents show how the hotel industry systematically pushed for anti-Airbnb...
View ArticleSouth LA residents call developer Eli Sasson a “land prospector”
Rendering of the entertainment project at 8400 Vermont Two years after developer Eli Sasson announced the groundbreaking for a $100 million entertainment development in South Los Angeles, the football...
View ArticleDouglas Elliman to double Cali new dev division, expand to San Francisco
Cory Weiss Douglas Elliman is planning to more than double the size of its new development division in California and expand to San Francisco, according to Susan de França, the CEO of the brokerage’s...
View ArticleChinese real estate stocks are soaring despite property market fears
A view of the skyline of Pudongs Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai (credit: Getty Images) and Evergrande’s Hui Ka Yan From TRD New York: Chinese real estate stocks are racing ahead of their U.S....
View ArticleJohn McEnroe takes a swing at renting his Malibu pad
John McEnroe, Malibu Colony rental (Getty Images/MLS) John McEnroe, the former professional tennis player known for his fiery temper, is looking to score a new tenant. The athlete listed his...
View ArticleTRD’s top stories: Sam Nazarian on SBE’s merger-and-acquisitions spree,...
Current reader favorites: 1. Sam Nazarian on the LA hotel market and potential merger with Hakkasan Group 2. The Real Deal LA’s new issue is live! 3. Inside LA’s alleged $50M EB-5 scam 4. Omninet...
View ArticleLa La Land values: A peek at the numbers behind the spec homes arms race
Illustration by Paul Kisselev From the April issue: In February, Douglas Elliman broker Tracy Maltas took a client, a local businessman, to see a property in Bel Air. Maltas is no stranger to great...
View ArticleSoCal Association of Governments to be first major tenant at Wilshire Grand
A rendering of the Wilshire Grand tower by AC Martin The Wilshire Grand just scored its first major tenant. The Southern California Association of Governments is close to inking a 44,000-square-foot,...
View ArticleChina seeks real estate magnate who threatened to blow whistle on party...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang (Credit: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images) From TRD New York: Interpol is searching for Chinese billionaire and real estate magnate Guo Wengui, who claims...
View ArticlePark between Chinatown and LA River to open after 16-year delay
A Street Food Cinema event at the Los Angeles State Historic Park (Credit: Goldstar) After 16 years of waiting, Angelenos will finally have access to Los Angeles State Historic Park. The 32-acre site...
View Article“Brady Brunch” star Florence Henderson’s home hits market for $2.8M
Florence Henderson, Harbor Crossing Lane home (Getty Images/MLS) The Marina del Rey home of late actress Florence Henderson and her husband, John Kappas, has listed for sale with an asking price of...
View ArticleWATCH: TRD discusses the realities of LA’s spec mansion craze
[caption id="attachment_61124" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Katherine Clarke and Hannah Miet[/caption] In The Real Deal Los Angeles' latest issue, senior reporter Katherine Clarke took a look at...
View ArticlePasadena home of Hollywood’s first female talent agent asking $7.6M
Chateau Road home (MLS) The longtime home of Coralie Fitzharris-Milburn is on the market for $7.6 million. Fitzharris-Milburn was one of Hollywood’s first female talent agents and the goddaughter of...
View ArticleGreater LA office market “still in growth mode”: report
Forecast from CBRE report and Petra Durnin UPDATED, 10:10 a.m., April 20: Despite negative absorption in the first quarter, the office market in the Greater Los Angeles area is slated for continued...
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