SAN DIEGO-Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial will manage the company’s office portfolio—comprised of nine buildings in five projects—in North County.

LOS ANGELES-The apartment properties, owned by California investor Marianne Moy, total 493 units in Thousand Oaks, Glendale, and Pasadena and went from application to rate-lock within 30 days.

Landlords need to take a proactive look at their portfolios and determine which retail tenants, and which locations, could pose issues this year.

LOS ANGELES-The debt financing is for a three-property, 365-unit apartment portfolio in California in this week’s West Coast wrap up of deals.

LOS ANGELES-A speaker at the Local Economic Outlook for Business and Real Estate event here, says that larger tenants are signing short-term leases on the Westside.

The tally of dead and dying lawns is not something you see in the official reports on the economy, but it's one of my own personal economic indicators.

COMMERCE, CA-GlobeSt.com learns from an unidentified source that the 285,368-square-foot Commerce Office Park changed hands for approximately $40 million.

LOS ANGELES-Economist Christopher Thornberg tells IREM-LA Forecast attendees that there are potholes in the roads ahead, but there is more reason to be positive in 2012. The US and California economies are gaining momentum, he says.