Orange County

A high percentage of off-market for-sale-by-owner transactions means the traditional gatekeepers of real estate listings in the market lose some of their credibility as gatekeepers, ATTOM Data's Daren Blomquist tells GlobeSt.com.

Creative deal-making skills and the ability to reposition obsolete real estate are necessary elements for buyers entering the highly competitive Orange County marketplace, Savills Studley's Brad Schmitt tells GlobeSt.com.

The secret to maintaining existing tenants even while raising rents is management quality in addition to the enhancements made to a property, the Muller Co.'s Jon Muller tells GlobeSt.com.

Amazon is finding it quite a bit more difficult to innovate in this new environment largely governed by preexisting binding legal agreements than in the freewheeling world of online commerce, Landmark's Adam Deermount tells GlobeSt.com.

Affordable housing, if done well and successfully, will address the social, emotional, physical and educational needs of the residents, and these needs can be further met if the housing doesn't look 'affordable,' Related California's Liane Takano tells GlobeSt.com.

Focus on the last mile, as well as the vastly different operating expenses in California due to Prop 13 reassessments are two of the biggest issues on industrial tenants' minds, C&W's Tina Arambulo and Kevin Turner tell GlobeSt.com.