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—At ALIS 2015, the founders of HotelTonight and of HomeAway talk about how they disrupted the hotel industry by removing the friction points.
LOS ANGELES—According to economist John Silvia at ALIS 2015, hotel revPAR growth peaks in the middle of the cycle, not at the end, which indicates that we may be heading for another recession in the next 2 years.
SANTA MONICA, CA—An investor buys the Ocean Park Plaza, a 100,983-square-foot low-rise office building from Broadreach Capital Partners, which recently completed $3 million in upgrades on the property.
LOS ANGELES—Mark Gilbreath, the founder of a new on-demand office-leasing app called LiquidSpace, predicts that all office leasing will move online in the next five years at the ALIS 2015 Summit.
LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles CCIM chapter gets a new board of directors for 2015, led by NAI Capital's Kevin Kawaoka—who talks to GlobeSt.com about the new recruits.
LOS ANGELES—The Chinese investor names Warnick + Co. as the asset manager for its two recently acquired Marriott Hotel properties in Torrance and Los Angeles, GlobeSt.com reports in this <b>UPDATE</b>.
LOS ANGELES—A joint venture between Embarcadero Capital Partners and Westbrook is the latest investor to flock to El Segundo to capitalize on the growing creative office market.