Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura | firsttuesday Journal

California tiered home pricing

by ft Editorial Staff | Apr 25, 2025 | Bay Area, Charts, first tuesday Local, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Mortgages, Real Estate, San Diego | 30

Home prices falter across the metropolitan areas of California at the end of 2024.

The widening level of vacant commercial space available in SoCal — Q1 2025

by Amy Platero | Apr 23, 2025 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0

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.

Los Angeles housing indicators

by ft Editorial Staff | Mar 14, 2025 | Charts, first tuesday Local, Forecasts, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Mortgages, Real Estate | 11

View these Los Angeles regional charts for details on current activity and forecasts for its housing market.

SoCal commercial vacancy rates moving on up in Q4 2024

by Amy Platero | Feb 7, 2025 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0

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.

SoCal commercial property struggles linger on in Q3 2024

by Amy Platero | Nov 29, 2024 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0

In each quarter in 2024, all SoCal markets experienced increasing vacancies.

SoCal commercial vacancy rates continue to rise in Q1 2024

by David Swistock | Apr 30, 2024 | Charts, Commercial, Economics, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0

Southern California’s commercial market softened even further in the first quarter of 2024.

Zoning obstacles for manufactured homes in California

by Amy Platero | Sep 8, 2023 | Bakersfield-Fresno, Bay Area, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Orange County, Real Estate, Sacramento, San Diego | 1

More acceptance of manufactured homes within California’s zoning laws may help address the state’s 980,000-unit housing deficit.

May a landlord maintain an unlawful detainer (UD) action against a month-to-month tenant who remains in possession following expiration of a notice of intent to vacate when the unit is subject to a rent control ordinance?

by David Swistock | Aug 14, 2023 | Laws and Regulations, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Property Management, Real Estate, Recent Case Decisions | 0

Roxbury Lane LP, v. Benjamin Harris

SoCal commercial vacancy rates continue to rise in Q2 2023

by Amy Platero | Aug 7, 2023 | Commercial, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0

Southern California’s commercial market softened even further in the second quarter of 2023.

HCD awards grants to increase access to housing

by Amy Platero | Jul 28, 2023 | Bay Area, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Orange County, Real Estate, Sacramento, San Diego | 0

California is rewarding local agencies with over $352 million in grant funding to help achieve housing and climate goals.

Grants awarded to pro-housing metros

by Amy Platero | Jul 12, 2023 | Bakersfield-Fresno, Bay Area, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Real Estate, Sacramento, San Diego | 2

Was your service area among the 18 awarded with grant funding for having pro-housing policies?

SoCal’s commercial market further softened in Q1 2023

by Amy Platero | Jul 7, 2023 | Commercial, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0

SoCal’s commercial market faced tough headwinds in the first quarter of 2023.

May a landlord maintain an unlawful detainer (UD) action when they have not complied with local rent control ordinances?

by David Swistock | Jun 28, 2023 | Fair Housing, Laws and Regulations, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Recent Case Decisions | 0

Frazier v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County

What you need to know about LA’s new “mansion tax”

by Carrie B. Reyes | Apr 7, 2023 | Economics, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Real Estate, Tax | 0

Now that the mad scramble to beat the tax deadline is behind us, what do agents need to know about the new mansion tax?

California Attorney General clashes with NIMBYs in Huntington Beach

by Carrie B. Reyes | Mar 23, 2023 | Laws and Regulations, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Real Estate | 0

This is the second time the state has sued Huntington Beach over housing law violations.

Black homeownership is growing slowly but surely

by Ashley Collins | Mar 10, 2023 | first tuesday Local, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Orange County, Real Estate, Sacramento, San Diego | 0

Black homeownership has historically been low for decades — but it’s snailing forward.

Redlining practices cost LA-based lender $31 million in settlement

by Amy Platero | Mar 10, 2023 | Fair Housing, first tuesday Local, Fundamentals, Laws and Regulations, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0

The largest redlining settlement in the Justice Department’s history involved a lender servicing Los Angeles who achieved disproportionately low numbers of mortgages from minority areas.