Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.
LOS ANGELES—According to a JLL report, downtown Los Angeles' skyscrapers have the seventh lowest occupancy in the country, while Century City's vacancy rate is shrinking.
LOS ANGELES—At NAIOP's I.CON event yesterday, industrial experts talked about issues in the industrial sector, saying that the seaports and the supply chain are the weakest links.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL—The highly competitive marketplace is pushing investors to shorten their due diligence timelines to win deals. Thankfully, CREModels is here to help.
LOS ANGELES—Turner Impact Capital launches a multifamily fund with a business plan that proves affordable housing can produce healthy risk-adjusted returns.
ALHAMBRA, CA—The 140,000-square-foot retail development signs its first four tenants—a Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza, the Habit Burger Grill, Bank of the West and Maido—and the owners say interest is strong for the remainder of the space.
LOS ANGELES—A private investor secures $160 million to refinance an eight-property apartment portfolio, securing the funds with aggressive pricing and rates through Fannie Mae, GlobeSt.com reports <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b>.
LOS ANGELES—Former Amazon product manager Brendan Kao and OneWest Bank senior banking executive Marc Heenan join PeerStreet, a crowdfunding platform for commercial real estate.
LOS ANGELES—A joint venture secures $30 million in financing to purchase and renovate the Beverly Hills Country Club, but their lender, Bradford Allen and Security Benefit Life Insurance Co., didn't see much competition for the deal.
LOS ANGELES—Hertz Investment Group completes its largest transaction to date with the purchase of a 3-million-square-foot, six-property office portfolio in the Southeast.
TORRANCE, CA—A four-building, 108,000-square-foot industrial flex property attracts 20 offers from private investors, thanks to the strong location and the potential for creative uses.