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—Seven months after closing its sixth fund with $2.7 billion, Oaktree Capital Management launches a seventh fund that aims to raise $3 billion and offers an 8% preferred return.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA—The Rockefeller Group Investment Management Corp. acquires the two four-story office properties, which have a total of 191,000-square-feet and leases with Playboy Enterprises and United Talent Agency.
LOS ANGELES—Local investor WJM LLC secures $15.7 million in first mortgage debt with many of the same benefits of CMBS to refinance a 110,000-square-foot retail and office building in Downtown Los Angeles' jewelry district.
LOS ANGELES—Alexandria Real Estate Equities reports a 2Q14 FFO of $1.19, surpassing analysts estimates by $0.01 per share, which was driven by low interest expenses.
LOS ANGELES—Joseph Brajevich joins the law firm's government and regulatory group as a partner, marking the third senior attorney to join the group this year.
LOS ANGELES—In this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> video, Rising Realty Partner's Christopher Rising talks about the firm's recent historic and complex projects downtown and in Pasadena, green building concepts and the company's unique culture.
WOODLAND HILLS, CA—Laurus Corp. acquires the 16-story, 474-room hotel and plans to invest an additional $10 million in upgrades and renovations to the hotel's common areas and guestrooms.
LOS ANGELES—Kilroy Realty signs a 15-year lease with NeueHouse for 93,000 square feet of radio and business buildings at Columbia Square, the mixed-use office complex currently under construction in Hollywood.