Forming Real Estate Syndicates

Real estate runs with the labor force participation rate

by ft Editorial Staff | Jan 30, 2026

Brokers who watch the jobs numbers along with the LFP rate will find the trends useful for forecasting their future brokerage conditions

San Francisco housing indicators

by ft Editorial Staff | Jan 7, 2026

View these charts for current activity and forecasts for San Francisco’s housing market.

Age and education in the golden state

by ft Editorial Staff | Dec 29, 2025

Age and education data complete a portrait of California’s largest and most dynamic counties.

Form-of-the-Week: Commercial lease agreement addenda — Forms 552-6, 552-7 and 552-8

by Amy Platero | Dec 18, 2025

A commercial leasing agent and a landlord have several options for including addenda in a commercial lease agreement, including the Maintenance Modification Addendum, Alienation Addendum, Subordination Addendum and a lease agreement addendum with blank spaces.

Density bonus zoning loopholes are for housing

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 2, 2025

Density bonus laws enable developers to increase density beyond what local zoning regulations allow, while increasing the number of subsidy-free housing for low- and moderate-income households.

SoCal commercial property entrenched in decline — Q3 2025

by Amy Platero | Nov 28, 2025

Vacancy and net absorption rates for the Southern California commercial property market worsened for most sectors.

To evolve, reuse buildings as housing, now

by Carrie B. Reyes | Nov 26, 2025

A new law approaches the housing shortage from the intuitive angle of reducing local agency discretion — the red tape leash — for adapting vacant commercial structures for reuse as housing projects.