Economy

Despite several new retail leases in the third quarter, Downtown Los Angeles saw a 15% year-over-year increase in the retail vacancy rate.

Yet Ten-X sees more gainers than losers nationally in its latest hotel “heat map,” and rates Orlando as the top “buy” market for lodging investors.

Totally different, according to new retail research from CBRE, which shows more integration between online and in-store and a totally revamped customer experience.

According to office preleasing numbers in a new JLL report, Hollywood's new office developments are in higher demand that the Westside.

Transmitter Brewing will join the City's push to reactivate Building 77 as an urban manufacturing center.

“We expect that single borrower issuance will remain in line with 2017, but conduit issuance may fall as much as 30%,” says Larry Kay at Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

With developers paying so much attention to high-end market-rate apartments and 60% AMI affordable housing, middle-income supply has dwindled and is now in great demand, Wakeland Housing's Rebecca Louie tells attendees at RealShare San Diego.

It's likely that the market will continue to underperform its potential while these conditions exist, First American's Mark Fleming tells GlobeSt.com.