SoCal commercial property entrenched in decline — Q3 2025
Vacancy and net absorption rates for the Southern California commercial property market worsened for most sectors.
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Tag: California commercial real estate
To evolve, reuse buildings as housing, now
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.
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SoCal’s commercial property market struggles to find tenants — Q2 2025
The bullish market following the 2020 recession reversed track in 2022 and has fully collapsed — now the commercial market is nowhere near finding a bottom in tenant demand and vacancies.
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The widening level of vacant commercial space available in SoCal — Q1 2025
SoCal’s commercial real estate market on entering 2025 is fully destabilized with industrial vacancy rates elevated across all SoCal markets and office vacancy rates even higher.
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SoCal commercial vacancy rates moving on up in Q4 2024
Commercial vacancy rates rose after 2023 and continue to rise in Southern California. While increasing vacancies cut into rental income and leasing fees, the absorption rate is worsening and shifting the source of leasing fees. Regions with the highest vacancy rates see the most occupancy of vacant space.
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SoCal commercial property struggles linger on in Q3 2024
In each quarter in 2024, all SoCal markets experienced increasing vacancies.
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SoCal commercial vacancy rates continue to rise in Q1 2024
Southern California’s commercial market softened even further in the first quarter of 2024.
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SoCal commercial vacancy rates continue to rise in Q4 2023
Southern California’s commercial market softened even further in the fourth quarter of 2023.
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UDAAP consumer mortgage protections extended to commercial financing
Existing regulations prohibiting unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices (UDAAP) in consumer mortgage financing now apply to the conduct of originators of commercial mortgage financing in California.
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SoCal commercial vacancy rates continue to rise in Q2 2023
Southern California’s commercial market softened even further in the second quarter of 2023.
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Commercial mortgage lending slides in 2023
MLOs betting their income on commercial and multi-family lending in 2023 will be disappointed.
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Office, hybrid or remote?
A broader trend is emerging in the office industry, which points to a shift — not a return to the past.
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California’s commercial property shortage is making investors desperate
Desperation has increasingly pushed investors to accept unfavorable terms and lower cap rates in 2022.
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Why property investors need to demand higher cap rates now
The new era of rising interest rates is putting pressure on cap rates.
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SoCal commercial real estate results are in
Southern California commercial real estate putting out brighter results, but there’s a long road to recovery ahead. Read on for the details of how industrial, office and retail are faring in SoCal’s major markets.
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2022 commercial market to be led by industrial and conversions
While office and retail both experienced increased vacancies in 2021, industrial vacancies have hit historic lows.
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Form-of-the-Week: Tenant Lease Worksheet and Offer to Lease – Forms 555 and 556
A leasing agent uses RPI Form 555 to understand a commercial tenant’s reasons for relocating and RPI Form 556 to prepare an offer which becomes binding when accepted by the landlord of the commercial property.
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Decline meets optimism in SoCal commercial real estate markets
While the seas have calmed following the steep losses of the 2020 recession, the 2021 commercial...
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California’s top cities for teachers to buy homes
California’s extreme home prices are legendary. At the same time, teacher incomes are less than...
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