One of downtown’s most visible office buildings is in the foreclosure process after years of lost revenue brought on by work-from-home trends.The owner of the 24-story office tower at 600 B St. is on the brink of losing the building as the lender seeks to recoup more than $83 million in unpaid debt.

If you want to see where California rents are rising the most – follow the paychecks.Let’s peek inside rent swings in California counties to see what landlords are charging and who’s hiring. My trusty spreadsheet looked at Zillow rent data for 30 big counties, comparing this spring (averages March t

The two-story, commercial building overlooking America’s Cup Harbor that housed the season 14 cast of MTV’s “The Real World” in 2003 is expected to be razed as part of the Port of San Diego’s broader redevelopment plan for Driscoll’s Wharf.The building at 4922 North Harbor Drive, on the eastern port

One look and it’s easy to see that local jewelry designer Georgina Treviño is overcaffeinated. She has to be. She’s just returned from a whirlwind trip where she finished a workshop residency at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina—while also finding time to pop up and down to LA and Mexico Cit

Another beautiful summer weekend brings a multitude of things to do in San Diego, from a wealth of live music—including a Polynesian music fest and a concert from “Low Rider” artist, War—to a tournament featuring the best athletes in the SD-born Over-the-Line tournament, plus plenty more San Diego e

Q: The board recently voted to change the parking rules in our community for accessible stalls within the parking garage. The board says these accessible stalls for people with disabilities will be viewed as common visitor stalls subject to the same visitor parking limits. The intent of this change

California summer, the windows rolled down, the back of my thighs sticking to the car seat as my friend’s car rattles over potholes. The AC is broken. It could be any year; I could be 10 or 15 or 28. The radio is on; the beat is thick and sweet. Oh, let me, let me tell you why I feel like that…We he

Californians have been surprisingly good at paying their bills despite all the financial hurdles of Golden State life.That’s what I found when my trusty spreadsheet looked at a decade’s worth of consumer delinquency data from the New York Fed. These stats came from Equifax credit histories tracking

“Joan liked her coffee black,” Irwin Jacobs says of his wife, Joan Jacobs, who had passed away at the age of 91 just two weeks earlier. “We spent a lot of time here in the kitchen.”The two were married nearly 70 years, together even longer than that. “We met at Cornell when we were 17,” Jacobs says.

Perched at the top of Beachwood Canyon with views of Lake Hollywood and (on a clear day) to Catalina Island, the c.1924 Norman Revival castle built by real estate developer and art director Milton Wolf is on the market for the first time in a decade. Occupying a four acre lot, the 8-bed, 5.5-bath, w

“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market.The pain: California apartment dwellers not only face sky-high rents, they don’t get much space for the dollars they pay to landlords.The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a RentCafe study of average rents

I’d love to tell you that my girlfriend and I had the ultimate meet-cute. But our relationship, like so many modern romances, began with a swipe on an app.Still, when I look at her nearly two years later, I feel the same sense of wonder palpable in many of the reader-submitted love stories in these

The owner of the 24-story office tower at 600 B Street in downtown San Diego is on the brink of losing the building as the lender seeks to recoup more than $83 million in unpaid debt.The troubled property is the first — but likely not the last — significant casualty of a downtown office market cripp

San Diego home prices have hit a new, possibly inevitable, landmark.The median price of a resale single-family home reached $1,001,500 in May, CoreLogic revealed this week, up from a revised $985,000 the previous month. It is a record high for San Diego County, joining only one other Southern Califo

National home prices have risen nearly 50 percent since the end of 2019 and several analyses say homes are substantially overvalued.Overvaluation is a predictor of stagnant, even negative, real returns in coming years, a headwind to anyone counting on real estate as a source of wealth, wrote Greg Ip

Mira Mesa’s abandoned Epicentre building is on the cusp of new management as city leaders have OK’d a real estate deal that will allow the county to remodel and reopen the long-shuttered property fronting Mira Mesa Boulevard.Tuesday, the San Diego City Council unanimously approved a 45-year lease ag

California’s new security deposit law went into effect Monday. Now, when landlords charge a security deposit, in most cases, that deposit cannot be larger than one month’s rent. The security deposit cap has some exceptions. Below is a guide to the new law.Why was this reform sought?Some landlords us

A notice of a disciplinary hearing is not great news, but that is how associations compel owners to be good neighbors. How one responds to a hearing notice can greatly affect the outcome. Here are some tips on how to respond, which hopefully results in a more productive hearing presentation that hel

Veteran life science real estate developer Alexandria Real Estate Equities has secured a pharmaceutical giant as its anchor tenant for a newly constructed building in Sorrento Mesa.Earlier this week, the firm announced that an unnamed, high-credit tenant signed a 10-year lease for 127,382 square fee

Originally designed by the architecture firm of Matlin and Dvoretsky—a pair of USC School of Architecture graduates whose work neatly fits in somewhere between L.A. Brutalism and Post Modernism—this 5-bed, 4-bath, 2-half bath property has been skillfully brought into the early 21st century by the cu