The market, as it happens.
Commercial real estate headlines for Los Angeles, California and Napa Valley — gathered each morning from the trade press, priced against the day's Treasury curve, and read by people who transact here.
Today on the wire
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What we make of it
Reporting tells you what happened. These are ours on what it costs, written from the deal side with the numbers counted and dated.
Five Ways a Retail Deal Dies in Escrow
Refusal rights, estoppels, title and survey, the lender's read on lease term, and environmental history — all knowable in week one, and the first-week sequence that surfaces them.
How to Read a Shopping Center Rent Roll: Eight Numbers That Set the Price
The cap rate is the output. Rent-weighted lease term, income concentration, recovery ratio, rollover, re-leasing reserves and escalation structure are the inputs — the order K2 works in.
Buying a Smart & Final or Sprouts: What the Cap Rate Doesn’t Tell You
152 Smart & Final locations in Southern California; four for sale. Cap rate timing, options vs. term, non-reporting grocers, and the lease provisions that kill net lease deals.
What’s Selling in Downtown LA, and For How Much
DTLA sellers ask a median $313/SF. Buyers pay $196. District-by-district data on 95 buildings for sale and 47 sales closed in the last twelve months.
Rent or Own in the Fashion District: The Math on 10,000 Square Feet
What an operator paying $18,000 a month for 10,000 square feet can actually own instead — cash to close, monthly cost, and the 51% rule that lets you buy bigger and lease the balance.
Two Costs Downtown LA Property Owners and Buyers Can’t Afford to Ignore
Seismic retrofit compliance and Measure ULA’s transfer tax belong in every Downtown LA valuation — not just the rent roll and cap rate.
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