New City West mixed-use residence is one of many to come
1136 West 6th Street (credit: Google Earth) City West, the neighborhood just across the 110 Freeway from the Financial District, is having a moment. Less than a mile away from the heart of DTLA, the...
View ArticleFormer Dodgers player lists home for $1.8M
A photo posted by MLB Network (@mlbnetwork) on Nov 12, 2015 at 10:54am PST Todd Zeile soon won’t be running toward home. The retired third baseman has listed his Westlake Village estate for $1.9...
View ArticlePlaya Vista is getting a new campus
12575 West Beatrice Street (credit: Google Earth) Another campus-style development is in the works in Playa Vista, courtesy of NSB Associates. The development firm filed plans with the city of L.A....
View ArticleThe Closing: Richard LeFrak
Richard LeFrak (Photo: Studio Scrivo) From the New York April Issue: Richard LeFrak is chairman and CEO of the LeFrak Organization, a company started by his great-grandfather, Aaron, in 1905. LeFrak...
View ArticleWestside Wells Fargo building sells for $11M
10789 West Pico Boulevard (credit: CBRE) Norfolk-based real estate investment firm Harbor Group International bought a single-tenant property leased to Wells Fargo at West Pico Boulevard and Glendon...
View ArticleSubmarket Snapshot: West Hollywood’s office market in Q1 2016
(Credit: NGKF) West Hollywood’s office market is off to a rocky start in 2016. WeHo saw its office vacancy rise and its rents drop in the first quarter, according to a report by NGKF. While the...
View ArticleKaty Perry triumphs in battle with nuns over Los Feliz convent
A photo posted by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on Dec 1, 2015 at 8:01am PST Roar, Katy, roar. Pop singer Katy Perry has prevailed in a dispute with two nuns over a 30,000-square-foot Los Feliz convent she...
View ArticleSandeep Mathrani is planning for “mild recession” next year
Sandeep Mathrani From the New York site: General Growth Properties CEO Sandeep Mathrani says a recession is coming, albeit a mild one. The retail chief, whose company owns a stake in New York’s famed...
View ArticleActivists don’t buy Garcetti’s plan to update zoning blueprints
(credit: L.A. Mayor) L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is hoping to gain brownie points with community activists with a new plan to modernize zoning and land use procedures, Southern California Public Radio...
View ArticleEB-5’s gatekeepers: Migration agents
Linda Mei and Nuri Katz From the April issue: Last July, a swarm of high-profile guests — including Revlon Chairman Ron Perelman and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger — gathered to celebrate...
View ArticleFleur de Lys owner buys smaller estate in Beverly Hills for $9.5M
Suzanne Saperstein and 901 North Bedford Drive (credit: Hilton & Hyland) The former owner of L.A.’s Versailles, the estate known as Fleur de Lys, has a new pad. Suzanne Saperstein acquired a...
View ArticleJonathan Gray: REIT buyout wave unlikely
Jonathan Gray (credit: Blackstone Group) From the New York site: Private real estate funds sit on record piles of cash, leading some observers to speculate that a wave of public-to-private real estate...
View ArticleOcean West is shopping Westwood Terrace for as much as $105M
A patio at the office building at 1640 South Sepulveda Boulevard and NGKF’s Kevin Shannon (credit: CoStar) Ocean West Capital Partners is looking to sell the Westwood office building at 1640 South...
View ArticleFormer Dodgers owner sells equestrian estate for $12M
Frank McCourt From the South Florida website: Former Los Angeles Dodgers owner and current real estate mogul Frank McCourt sold his Wellington estate for $11.85 million, records show. 13808 Fairlane...
View ArticleCh-ch-changes: Chango, one of Echo Park’s favorite coffeehouses, may be replaced
1559 Echo Park Avenue (credit: Google Earth) Cue the tears of chained-to-laptop freelancers across Echo Park: Chango coffee, a neighborhood institution, soon may vanish. Well, maybe not. But the...
View ArticleSubmarket Snapshot: Burbank’s office market in Q1 2016
The Michael D. Eisner office building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank Burbank’s 6.6 million-square-foot office market saw 14.7 percent vacancy in the first quarter of 2016, according to a report by...
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Current reader favorites: 1. Santa Monica’s luxury home market went crazy in Q1 2016 2. These are the biggest under-construction projects in LA 3. DTLA revitalization through lens of the Los Angeles...
View ArticleHasbro, in expansion mode, signs lease for 80K sf at Media Studios North in...
The Media Studios North building in Burbank and images of Hasbro’s transformers (credit: CoStar, Hasbro.com) Hasbro is on a roll, and it just doubled its L.A. office footprint to prove it. The...
View ArticleSam Zell says US economy “doing pretty well,” but cycle “in the ninth inning”
Sam Zell From the New York site: In December, Equity Residential chair and real estate investor Sam Zell said he believed there was “a high probability” that the U.S. economy would slip into a...
View ArticleMovers and Shakers: Berkshire Hathaway, Lee & Associates and more
From left: Ted Fentin, Mary Lee Blaylock, Warren Berzack Mary Lee Blaylock is now the president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices (BHHS) California Properties. Former president and executive...
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