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—San Francisco-based investment firm Shorenstein enters into an agreement to buy the 1.1-million-square-foot office property on Wilshire Boulevard from Beacon Capital Partners.
LOS ANGELES—Waterbridge Capital secures the first tranche of a $140 million loan to purchase the 1-million-square-foot building, which will be repositioned into creative office space.
LOS ANGELES—Tishman Speyer acquires the 17-story, 237,000-square-foot office building for an estimated $122 million with plans to perform extensive renovations to the building's infrastructure.
LOS ANGELES—In this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> interview, Brookfield Residential's Alison Banks talks about how the Silicon Beach tech boom is fueling rapid growth in the South Bay market.
LOS ANGELES—Kennedy Wilson's Fred Cordova tells reporter Kelsi Maree Borland that multifamily development trends, specifically micro units, are driving activity in the self-storage market, in this <b>UPDATE</b> to a previous story.
PASADENA, CA—The Swig Co. acquires the historic 1922 72,500-square-foot office building, formerly occupied by Royal Laundry Co. and currently occupied by the Disney Store's western regional headquarters, from Karlin Real Estate.
WOODLAND HILLS, CA—An institutional multifamily investor acquires the 298-unit luxury multifamily property from Wood Partners because of the high demand for luxury rental units in the submarket, GlobeSt.com reports <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b>.
LOS ANGELES—Storage Etc. Development LLC acquires the three-property portfolio in Los Angeles and Riverside from the AMS Group for $16.4 million, GlobeSt.com reports <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b>.
LOS ANGELES—Called HQ Creative Space, the new group will oversee management and development of the group's 10-building, 120,000-square-foot creative office portfolio.
LOS ANGELES—VP Loren Thall tells reporter Kelsi Maree Borland that the firm's new multifamily lending division will target small investors looking for loans of up to $30 million for purchases or refinances.