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—Unhappy with its former CMBS loan, the office owner secures a $26 million loan through a life insurance company to refinance the Continental Park, a two-building office park.
LOS ANGELES—The investor buys two properties—one on Abbott Kinney in Venice and another on Carlton Way in Hollywood—with plans to reposition both properties as class-A assets.
THOUSAND OAKS, CA—The New Home Co. opens Twenty Oaks, a gated community of 20 single-family homes, to 500 interested families that toured the two model properties.
ONTARIO, CA—Buchanan Street Partners buys a two-building office property in the Inland Empire after seeing occupancies tighten and rents firm, GlobeSt.com reports <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b>.
LOS ANGELES—Inland American Real Estate Trust develops an independent brand as InvenTrust Properties Corp., Thomas P. McGuinness, the firm's president and CEO tells us in this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> interview about the company's recent name change.
LOS ANGELES—Designed by Gensler, the innovation campus at the Port of L.A. will be a hub for businesses, scientists and education leaders to solve issues relating to clean water, food resources and energy security.
LOS ANGELES—According to the 1Q15 office report from Cushman & Wakefield, the office sector is performing strongly with “only blue skies ahead,” according to Cushman's Petra Durnin.
LOS ANGELES—Following the acquisition of DoubleTree by Hilton San Diego Hotel Circle, Oak Coast Properties' Phillip Nahas sits down for an <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> interview to talk about the hotel market and the firm's investment strategy.
LOS ANGELES—Today, the Los Angeles Business council honors Servicon chairman Michael Mahdesian with the Chairman's Sustainability Award for the firm's recently completed Mahdesian Learning Center & Client Innovation Hub, which is the first and only building to earn a LEED-New Construction Platinum certification.