Capital Markets

The Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate in the University of San Diego School hosted a breakfast to discuss the impacts of the recent tax cuts.

Companies are the only people chasing talent. New investment firm Space Investment Partners is banking on markets producing and retaining STEM talent.

The market was late out of the recovery but is now becoming a favorite of investors, like San Diego's Tower 16, which plans to buy 1,000 units there in the next 12 months.

Like all industries over time, things change, and the weak got obliterated, and the fast movers get success.

High pricing on office assets combined with slow leasing activity in Downtown Los Angeles has kept some buyers out of the market.

“Occupiers and investors of real estate are faced with all these emerging technologies and companies and often they don't have the time or infrastructure to figure out which are the most promising.”

Value-add retail opportunities are limited in Orange County, where the retail market has remained strong since the recession.

Dekel Strategic Investors is trading ground-up multifamily deals, where there may be some softness in rental rate growth, for value-add and core-plus strategies.