Privatizing a Trophy in Los Angeles
The Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Los Angeles has long housed crucial state offices, such as an appeals court, the highway patrol and the regional...
Lee & Associates Survey Finds Private Investors Cautious But Optimistic
Los Angeles-based brokerage firm Lee & Associates Investment Services Group has allowed us to share the results of a short investor sentiment survey it recently compiled....
Pension Investments Threatened by California’s Troubles
As goes California, so goes the future of institutional investing in the commercial real estate sector....
Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full for Hoteliers?
Bill Hoffman insists that he is not a prophet of doom, but some hotel industry executives might beg to differ. The founder and CEO of Trigild, a San Diego-based...
TIC Pioneer Tony Thompson Courts Government Clients in New Venture
When he was an eighth grader in Cunningham, Kan., Tony Thompson took an aptitude test that revealed his true calling. My number one aptitude was not attorney,...
William Lindsay: Making a mark in growing business of distressed loans
The ripple effects from the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing in September 2008 are still being felt across the commercial real estate industry. This...
Michael Schwartz Uses Cash to Unlock Values in Self-Storage
In 1991, Michael Schwartz bought his first piece of real estate his house from the Resolution Trust Corp. He sold the New York home years later at a hefty...
Retail Tenants Appeal for Rent Relief
Across the country, thousands of battered retailers emerging from the worst sales year on record are pleading with their landlords to throw them a lifeline...
Growth in India and China Hastens SoCal Industrial Market Recovery
Although Southern California’s office market will continue to suffer next year, the industrial market is poised to emerge from the recession because strong growth in India and China is fueling demand for U.S. goods. That’s according to the 2010 Casden Industrial and Office Market Forecast by the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate....
Attorney Wells Rescues Troubled Investments
With $1 billion in troubled investments at stake and a hornet's nest of current legal troubles buzzing, the attorney that a major institution chose to...
Internet Condo Sale Yields $21.8 Million Response
When Los Angeles auctioneer and software executive William Stevenson planned the simultaneous sale of 79 residential lofts in the city’s historic financial district on Feb. 8, he had no idea how successful the event would be. ...
Going Once, Going Twice … L.A. Lofts Set for Online Auction
On Feb. 8, auctioneer William Stevenson, president of Los Angeles-based Intelligent Market Systems, plans to simultaneously sell 79 residential lofts in an Internet auction....
Why Not All Investors Are California Dreamin'
Movie star Cary Grant once remarked that a luxurious castle on the California coast was a great place to spend the Depression. In a similar vein, investors...
Downtown Los Angeles Goes Upscale
Less than a decade ago, downtown Los Angeles was pocked with vacant eyesores aging office and industrial buildings emptied out in the 1990s during an...
Hollywood Studios on the Block
The haunts of Hollywood's Golden Era studio backlots where such classics as It Happened One Night and Gone With the Wind sprang to life are being sold...
