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Shopping app Honey inks 23K sf lease for offices above DTLA parking structure
The building at 990 West 8th Street and Honey co-founder and CEO George Ruan (Credit: CBRE, Honey) Honey, an online shopping browser extension, is the latest tenant to join the Downtown creative class...
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Shekhter vs. AEW drama continues with appellate court ruling
Neil Shekhter and a rendering of NMS Properties’ Wilshire & La Jolla tower at 6401 Wilshire Boulevard (Credit: Urban Land Institute, Steinberg Architects) The future of nine Westside rental...
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Rick Caruso becomes first major advertiser with Snapchat geofilter
Rick Caruso is sure keeping up with Gen Z. The shopping mall developer is the first major advertiser to purchase a year-long Snapchat geofilter, the Los Angeles Times reported. Geofilters are overlays...
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Mike Posner to sell “cooler than you” property for $1.4M
Mike Posner and his home on Carse Drive (Credit: Dre Allegiance, 3300Carse.com) It’s the house that partying in Ibiza made. Mike Posner, the crooner behind tunes like “I took a Pill in Ibiza” and...
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U.S. reaches $7.2B settlement with Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank’s John Cryan and the DOJ’s Loretta Lynch From the New York website: The U.S. Justice Department and Deutsche Bank reached a $7.2 billion settlement over the bank’s role in the pre-crisis...
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Paul Manafort’s son-in-law files for bankruptcy protection for four LA...
Paul Manafort and a rendering of Jeff Yohai’s project at 1550 Blue Jay Way (Credit: Getty, Marin West) Try explaining this one to the father of the bride. The son-in-law of ex-Trump campaign chairman...
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Stocking stuffer: Buy TRD’s “The Closing” book
“The Closing” book features 100 candid interviews with industry heavyweights, who share the good, the bad and the ugly they faced while climbing to the top, and for some, falling from grace. The...
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How Westside malls are competing with the Everything Store
Some of the holiday festivities at the Grove and developer Rick Caruso (credit: Caruso) How do you compete with one-click ordering? With Amazon’s e-commerce juggernaut gobbling up an ever-increasing...
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Chinese developer says LA is epitome of “new economy”
Stuart Morkun and a rendering of Olympia at 1001 West Olympic Boulevard (Credit: LinkedIn, City Century) “Go big or go home” may not be an ancient Chinese proverb, but it certainly applies to newcomer...
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Will new mansionization rules slow the rise of spec homes?
The Owlwood Estate sold to spec development firm for $90M (Getty, BusinessWire, Douglas Elliman) Expansive spec homes dominated the highest end of the Los Angeles luxury market in 2016, accounting for...
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Done deal: Japanese investor ASO locks down Google’s hangar
The Spruce Goose hangar (credit: Vashi Nedomansky) and ASO president Iwao Aso (via YPO) Japanese conglomerate ASO Group closed Thursday on its purchase of the Google-leased Spruce Goose Hangar in Playa...
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The ties that bind: If Trump actually wants to divest from his empire, here’s...
Donald Trump (credit: Getty Images) From the New York website: On Thursday, news broke that President-elect Donald Trump is in talks with Deutsche Bank to remove personal guarantees from real estate...
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The Chargers ink tentative deal for Costa Mesa office complex
The Hive in Costa Mesa The Chargers have inked a tentative deal to lease 101,831 square feet at a Costa Mesa office campus in anticipation of a move to Los Angeles, the O.C. Register reported. The team...
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Santa Clara developer eyes shipping containers for low-income housing
John Sobrato From the New York website: California developer John Sobrato spent decades building offices for Silicon Valley tech giants. These days the billionaire businessman wants to build...
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“Harry Potter” villain sells Hollywood Hills home
22 #pingpong4purpose A photo posted by Tom Felton (@t22felton) on Jul 31, 2015 at 11:36pm PDT Well, Slytherins always did have the best business senses. Tom Felton, the actor who portrayed villain...
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Lauren Conrad aims for quick profit on Pacific Palisades home
Lauren Conrad and her home on Via La Costa (Credit: DeviantArt user Bwtg1999 and LA Light photography) Shout it from “The Hills” — Lauren Conrad, the original darling of Orange County, has listed her...
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The 10 most expensive listings of 2016
The Chandler Estate and the Spelling Mansion Forget the million dollar listing. If anything, 2016 has been the year of hundred-million-dollar listing. A handful of headline-grabbing Los Angeles sales...
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