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Momentum Continues After a Very Strong Quarter.


LET the good times roll. Capping off its healthiest year since L.A. emerged from recession in the early '90s, the commercial real estate market turned in a rousing rous·ing  
adj.
1. Inducing enthusiasm or excitement; stirring: a rousing sermon.

2. Lively; vigorous: a rousing march tune.

3.
 fourth-quarter performance, with vacancy VACANCY. A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.
     2. By the constitution of the United States, the president has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate.
 rates dropping and rents rising in most parts of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  County.

"Space is being leased out and there's an overall feeling that it's it's  

1. Contraction of it is.

2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its.


it's it is or it has
it's be ~have
 fun to be in real estate again," said David Thurman Thurman is the name of several towns:
  • Thurman, Iowa
  • Thurman, New York
  • Thurman, Ohio
and a surname:
  • Allen G. Thurman, former vice-presidential candidate
  • Howard Thurman, African American theologian and civil rights leader
, a partner with Concorde Concorde

First supersonic, passenger-carrying, commercial airplane. Built jointly by British and French manufacturers, it entered regular service in 1976. Its maximum cruising speed is 1,354 mph (2,179 kph), more than twice the speed of sound; the London-New York flight
 Real Estate Partners. "There continues to be a lack of big blocks of space and the dot-coms continue to dominate."

Those who follow the market chalk up chalk  
n.
1. A soft compact calcite, CaCO3, with varying amounts of silica, quartz, feldspar, or other mineral impurities, generally gray-white or yellow-white and derived chiefly from fossil seashells.

2.
a.
 the impressive performance to several factors -- a strong national and regional economy, growth in the technology sector, continued demand for warehouse and distribution space, and relatively little new office construction.

While corporate downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs.

(2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system.

(jargon) downsizing
 and mergers have hit certain areas hard, most especially downtown, large corporations are giving way to entrepreneurial en·tre·pre·neur  
n.
A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.



[French, from Old French, from entreprendre, to undertake; see enterprise.
 operations. Some of these are growing explosively -- witness eToys EToy or EToys may refer to:
  • Etoy, Switzerland, a small town
  • EToys (Programming Language), an educational programming language
  • eToys.com, a Dot-com era company/website
  • etoy, a conceptual art group
 and CarsDirect -- and have absorbed what little new space has come onto the market, especially on the Westside Adj. 1. westside - of the western part of a city; "he lives in upper westside Manhattan"
west - situated in or facing or moving toward the west
.

Over 1999, average monthly asking rents increased about 6 percent, or 10 cents per square foot, to $1.81 for the county as a whole.

"In 1998, we thought the market was on fire. Everyone was writing about how hot the market and economy were, and how '99 would slow down and mellow out mel·low  
adj. mel·low·er, mel·low·est
1.
a. Soft, sweet, juicy, and full-flavored because of ripeness: a mellow fruit.

b.
. We haven't have·n't  

Contraction of have not.


haven't have not
haven't have
 seen that," said Mike Rago, head of regional information services See Information Systems.  for Cushman Cushman is a manufacturer of industrial vehicles, personal vehicles, and other custom vehicles, including parking patrol auto rickshaws. Models
Haulster (Small industrial multi-purpose truck) Bellhop Series (Golf Carts) Tug(Large Truck)
 & Wakefield Wakefield, estate, United States
Wakefield, family estate of George Washington, on the Potomac River, E Va.; part of the

George Washington Birthplace National Monument (see National Parks and Monuments, table).
 Inc.

Tenant base expanding

In all, Los Angeles County office tenants moved into 2.58 million more square feet than they vacated during the quarter, with 6.85 million square feet of net absorption for the year, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 Cushman & Wakefield.

The year's total was almost double that of the year before, when 3.6 million square feet of office space was absorbed -- and that was double the level of the two previous years combined.

If these trends continue, the amount of office space under construction should be handily hand·i·ly  
adv.
1. In an easy manner.

2. In a convenient manner.

Adv. 1. handily - in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located"
conveniently

2.
 absorbed. Currently, 3.26 million square feet of new office space is being built in Los Angeles, and none of it is in the still-soft downtown submarket sub·mar·ket  
n.
A geographic, economic, or specialized subdivision of a market.

adj.
Being below what is usual in a particular market: submarket wages; submarket interest rates. 
. A full third of it already has been preleased.

"If we're we're  

Contraction of we are.


we're we are
 going to be on this rate of absorption next year, we'll we'll  

Contraction of we will.


we'll we will or we shall
we'll will ~shall
 eat that up quickly," Rago said.

To keep supply and demand in balance, developers generally should have three years' worth of supply under construction at any given time. Of that three years' worth of inventory under construction, about one-third is typically completed per year, matching new supply with current absorption.

Despite the healthy absorption, most of those interviewed do not expect development activity to heat up significantly this year. Very little is being built on spec On Spec is a digest-sized, perfect-bound, Canadian quarterly magazine publishing stories and poetry in science fiction, fantasy, and allied genres. It started publishing in 1989, and is based in Edmonton, Alberta.  today, except in the industrial sector. And lenders are requiring developers to come up with more equity than in the past (40 percent or more). To get deals financed today, projected monthly rents need to be at least $3 per square foot -- and there are just a few submarkets where tenants are willing to pay that much.

Painful memories

The caution by lenders is partially the result of their painful memories from the overbuilding of the late '80s and early '90s, when projects all over town were going belly up belly up

Of, relating to, or being in bankruptcy. Used of a firm.
.

"We're still pretty conservative. There hasn't has·n't  

Contraction of has not.


hasn't has not
hasn't have
 been really anybody to move out of the box," said Mark Wortmann, a vice president in the real estate lending department at Mellon Bank.

Developers also are being careful to craft their projects to match market demand, which today is for more-casual, low-rise low-rise
adj.
Of or relating to a building having few stories and often no elevators: a low-rise apartment house.



[low1 + (high)-rise.]

Adj.
, campus-style space. That led to Kilroy Kilroy

fictitious American soldier; left inscription, “Kilroy was here,” everywhere U.S. soldiers were stationed (1940s). [Am. Mil. Folklore: Misc.]

See : Ubiquity
 Realty realty n. a short form of "real estate." (See: real estate)


REALTY. An abstract of real, as distinguished from personalty. Realty relates to lands and tenements, rents or other hereditaments. Vide Real Property.
 Corp.'s success in preleasing an entire 151,000-square-foot building under construction at Westside Media Center to eToys, in one of the biggest lease deals of the year.

Retail development also has cooled a bit, with theater operators backing off.

"My sense is, we sort of hit the top two or three months ago (as far as retail developers') attitudes," said Cal Hollis HOLLIS Harvard Online Library Information System (Harvard University Libraries' online catalog) , managing principal with consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
consulting company

business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a
 Keyser Keyser may refer to:
  • Keyser, West Virginia
  • Brenda Keyser, a Manitoba judge
  • Charles Keyser (1871–1965), Australian politician
  • William Keyser B&O Railroad
 Marston Mar·ston   , John 1575?-1634.

English playwright whose works include The Malcontent and The Dutch Courtezan (both 1604).
 Associates. "I see them being more conservative about blasting ahead."

Even if lenders were to significantly loosen preleasing and equity requirements, there remains a lack of developable space in L.A. County, as well as an increase in neighborhood anti-growth activism. "Nobody wants construction in their neighborhood," said Craig Craig   , Edward Gordon 1872-1966.

British theatrical producer, director, and designer whose innovative productions and simplified stage designs influenced modern theater.
 Silvers, a real estate analyst at investment bank Sutro & Co.

Active sectors

As for new construction, the industrial and multifamily residential sectors were arguably ar·gu·a·ble  
adj.
1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved.

2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law.
 the most active in the fourth quarter. The countywide coun·ty·wide  
adv. & adj.
Throughout a whole county: found at locations countywide; a countywide search.

Adj. 1.
 industrial vacancy rate is only 4.3 percent, according to Trammell Crow F. Trammell Crow (born June 11, 1914, in Dallas, Texas) is an American property developer who created several famous projects, including Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center (Atlanta, Georgia), and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center.  Co., and multifamily building is being spurred by apartment rents jumping 7.9 percent in 1999. "A lot of developers want to do multifamily. We're at a point where rents support new construction," Hollis said.

Rago of Cushman & Wakefield projected that office vacancies would continue to fall in L.A. County and rents would continue to rise, but at a slower clip -- probably about 5 percent.

"I don't think we can keep the momentum up," Rago said. "My gut feeling gut feeling Intuition, visceral sensation  is that eventually we need to start peaking. If we haven't already reached the peak, we should be looking at a plateauing plateauing Sports medicine A weight training term for the point above which an anabolic drug becomes ineffective in increasing muscle mass. See Anabolic steroids, Weight training.  now."

Yet, there is room to grow. He noted that L.A. still lags the overall national trends. For example, the office vacancy rate for downtown stands at 18.9 percent, about twice the 9.5 percent for central business districts nationally. For all other submarkets, the vacancy rate -- 13.6 percent -- is closer to the national average of 11.7 percent.

L.A.'s non-downtown markets are also tighter than they were during the last boom 10 years ago, while downtown isn't there yet.

"The good news is even though we're running behind the national average, we're showing a continuing drop in vacancies and catching up to the national averages," Rago said.

The Westside continues to lead the charge, with a vacancy rate of only 6.3 percent, and a measly measly

said of beef, pork and mutton because infected meat has a speckled appearance thought to resemble measles (1) in humans. See also cysticercus.
 3.2 percent in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. . "The leasing side has had a fervor we've never seen before, due to venture capital money and dotcoms," said Bob Safai, principal at brokerage Madison Partners.

Westside humming

While the first phase of the Water Garden office complex in Santa Monica took three to four years to absorb, Safai expects phase two, which is under construction, to be fully leased in a year.

Even the Olympic Corridor, once a cheaper Westside pocket, has tightened and rents have increased to an all-time high, up to $2.45 per square foot per month.

"We've seen rents spike A burst of extra voltage in a power line that lasts only a few nanoseconds. See power surge, power swell, sag and surge suppression.

(jargon) spike - To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result.
 tremendously on the Westside, being driven by entertainment-convergence companies. Others are taking it on the chin a little bit," said Steven Gelber, president of Gelber Realty Corp.

Some expect traditional tenants, such as law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
 and other service tenants who moved to the Westside when rates were down, to re-evaluate their options as renewals come up. Pockets to the east and south, including the Miracle Mile Miracle Mile can refer to the following places:
  • Miracle Mile is a main street in Stockton, California, outside the University of the Pacific
  • Miracle Mile
, Howard Hughes Center near Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers.  and the Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation).

“KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation).

Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX
 area, will continue to benefit from tenants being priced out Priced out

The market has already incorporated information, such as a low dividend, into the price of a stock.
 of the Westside.

But will tenants flock flock

1. a group of one species of animal or bird which eats or travels or is kept together, e.g. flock of sheep, of wild geese.

2. wool or cotton particles or debris used as stuffing or packing.
 even farther east, to Wilshire Center and downtown? The vacancy rates there remain high and rents are a relative bargain, yet new-media and tech-related firms continue to show a preference for the Westside and have so far been willing to pay the price. Monthly lease rates in Santa Monica are pushing north of $3.25 per square foot.

On the investment side, activity picked up after New Year's, following a brief pause late in the fourth quarter due to uncertainty on the part of buyers and lenders about potential Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant.

Y2K - Year 2000
 glitches. "In the last week or so, everyone's regrouping and activity has started," Safai said.

Limited selection

Some brokers say that sales activity could be constrained con·strain  
tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains
1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force.

2.
 by the lack of B- and C-quality buildings being offered for sale at this point in the cycle. Buyers already have scooped up a lot of those assets.

Another factor holding down investment activity is that the big publicly trade real estate investment trusts continue to be sidelined by low share prices, and a dearth of affordably priced buildings available for acquisition.

"I would see a more conservative approach taken by bigger funds and RElTs. The acquisition frenzy Frenzy
Beatlemania

term referring to the Beatles’ (rock musicians) immense popularity; manifested by screaming fans in the 1960s. [Pop. Culture: Miller, 172–181]

Big Bull Market
 of a year-plus ago has been more tempered. REITs are going to spin off some assets," Gelber predicted.

Indeed, Arden Realty Corp. has indicated it may sell a few buildings and even exit certain submarkets. "REITs showed good (operational) performance (in 1999), but the stock price said something different," Silvers said.

Despite indifference Indifference
Antoinette, Marie

(1755–1793) queen of France to whom is attributed this statement on the solution to bread famine: “Let them eat cake.” [Fr. Hist.
 to the real estate sector on Wall Street, those in the trenches see more prosperity ahead.

"I think 2000 is going to be another good year. The strength is going to surprise people," Silvers said. "The national economy is still strong and Far East economies have recovered. More companies are locating in the L.A. area and not a lot of supply is coming on line."
                     Los Angeles County Office Market,
                            Fourth Quarter 1999
                                                               Class A
                             Total        Vacant     Class A    Asking
                         Inventory [1]     Space     Vacancy  Lease Rate [2]
Market/Submarket         (square feet) (square feet) 12/31/99  12/31/99
CBD/Financial District    28,986,814     4,518,340    14.2%     $1.92
South Park                 1,917,559      234,882     12.0%     $1.48
Central City East          2,090,867      890,694      N/A       N/A
Little Toyko/Chinatown      445,818       49,571      16.4%     $1.52
Central City West          3,985,643     1,013,881    36.7%     $1.59
Downtown                  37,426,701     6,707,368    15.7%     $1.85
Mid-Wilshire               8,075,518     1,687,302    25.1%     $1.20
Park Mile                  1,079.452      88,017      11.6%     $1.54
Miracle Mile               4,676,240      573,583     11.4%     $1.99
Hollywood                  2,498,959      448,302     30.0%     $1.60
Wilshire Center           16,330,169     2,797,204    18.0%     $1.48
Arcadia/Covina             2,571,317      933,138     47.1%     $1.80
El Monte                    791,983       125,344      N/A       N/A
Alhambra/Monterey Park     1,809,296      216,404     10.0%     $1.80
Industry/Diamond Bar       1,950,332      306,818     20.1%     $1.96
City of Commerce           1,177,574      152,808      7.9%     $1.66
San Gabriel Valley         8,300,502     1,734,512    26.5%     $1.87
Simi Valley                 191,607        4,831       N/A       N/A
Thousand Oaks/Newbury       802,207       82,221      18.8%     $2.10
Westlake Village           2,202,257      265,416     60.0%     $2.14
Agoura Hills                435,844       28,896      24.9%     $1.90
Calabasas                  1,705,633      82,105       0.0%      N/A
Simi/Conejo Valley         5,337,548      463,469      6.0%     $2.05
Northridge/Reseda           337,646       67,395      29.5%     $1.65
Tarzana                     513,429       48,283      12.2%     $1.64
Chatsworth/Canoga Park     1,815,521      461,369      7.4%     $1.55
Warner Center              5,622,207      411,034      7.2%     $2.39
Woodland Hills             1,170,242      151,400      9.4%     $1.92
West Valley                9,459,045     1,139,481     7.9%     $2.22
Encino                     3,977,504      284,469      7.3%     $1.91
Sherman Oaks               2,225,836      206,870      8.7%     $1.92
Van Nuys                   1,563,057      149,278      8.8%     $1.83
Pan. City/Mission Hills     428,296       109,970      3.4%     $2.00
Valencia/Newhall           1,277,806      450,321     38.6%     $1.89
Central Valley             9,472,499     1,200,908    12.8%     $1.90
Universal/Studio City      1,863,500      113,522      5.8%     $2.44
Burbank - Media District   2,133,211      16,661       0.6%     $2.86
Burbank - City Center      2,275,529      138,778     12.6%     $2.86
Glendale                   5,930,705      880,264     16.3%     $2.18
Pasadena                   5,341,240      310,762      5.2%     $2.28
Pasadena East              1,072,273      98,446       0.0%      N/A
North Hollywood            1,120,862      199,819      9.9%     $2.03
Tri-Cities                19,737,320     1,758,252     8.9%     $2.40
Los Angeles Airport        3,875,483      867,695     12.5%     $1.44
El Segundo/Manhattan       9,067,039      979,848     13.5%     $2.20
190th Street Corridor      3,297,161      399,895     12.5%     $1.74
Central Torrance           3,681,255      577,947     20.0%     $1.84
San Pedro                   277,500       19,912       6.3%     $1.90
Long Beach Freeway         2,406,398      117,845      2.5%     $2.14
North Long Beach            993,150       174,367     11.6%     $1.45
Downtown Long Beach        3,892,654      570,091     19.5%     $2.05
East Long Beach             479,257       88,225       N/A       N/A
Cerritos                   1,303,573      164,546     14.0%     $1.97
South Bay                 29,273,470     3,960,371    13.4%     $1.97
West Hollywood             1,323,459      127,829     10.1%     $2.39
Beverly Hills              5,568,248      373,560      5.5%     $2.56
Century City               8,852,055      591,914      7.2%     $2.73
Westwood                   3,426,528      280,883      8.1%     $3.09
Brentwood                  3,243,337      164,236      5.9%     $2.69
Santa Monica               6,139,315      195,461      2.9%     $2.95
Pacific Palisades           160,407       11,398      10.6%     $3.25
West Los Angeles           3,528,924      297,299      3.6%     $2.07
Marina Del Rey/Venice      1,029,431      93,611      12.1%     $2.77
Culver City                3,238,233      171,561      6.0%     $2.05
Los Angeles West          36,509,937     2,307,752     6.2%     $2.70
Los Angeles County Total  171,847,191   22,069,317    12.4%     $2.00
                         All Classes All Classes All Classes  4th Qtr
                           Vacancy     Vacancy   4th Qtr Net    Net
Market/Submarket           9/30/99    12/31/99     Change    Absorption [3]
CBD/Financial District      16.8%       15.6%       (1.2)     315,063
South Park                  12.4%       12.2%       (0.2)      3,100
Central City East           42.6%       42.6%        0.0      (8,574)
Little Toyko/Chinatown      14.0%       11.1%       (2.9)      12,948
Central City West           27.8%       25.4%       (2.4)      97,045
Downtown                    19.2%       17.9%       (1.3)     419,582
Mid-Wilshire                22.8%       20.9%       (1.9)     132,276
Park Mile                   7.8%        8.2%         0.4       5,495
Miracle Mile                14.0%       12.3%       (1.7)      39,983
Hollywood                   23.1%       17.9%       (5.2)     128,304
Wilshire Center             19.3%       17.1%       (2.2)     306,058
Arcadia/Covina              35.8%       36.3%        0.5      (18,831)
El Monte                    29.8%       15.8%      (14.0)      34,413
Alhambra/Monterey Park      15.1%       12.0%       (3.1)      56,372
Industry/Diamond Bar        16.2%       15.7%       (0.5)     269,175
City of Commerce            12.6%       13.0%        0.4       (879)
San Gabriel Valley          23.1%       20.9%       (2.2)     340,250
Simi Valley                 3.6%        2.5%        (1.1)      2,077
Thousand Oaks/Newbury       14.6%       10.2%       (4.4)      31,441
Westlake Village            12.9%       12.1%       (0.8)      17,800
Agoura Hills                7.9%        6.6%        (1.3)      5,578
Calabasas                   5.6%        4.8%        (0.8)      14,058
Simi/Conejo Valley          10.1%       8.7%        (1.4)      70,954
Northridge/Reseda           19.8%       20.0%        0.2       (445)
Tarzana                     13.6%       9.4%        (4.2)      21,656
Chatsworth/Canoga Park      27.7%       25.4%       (2.3)      42,313
Warner Center               6.6%        7.3%         0.7      184,661
Woodland Hills              13.3%       12.9%       (0.4)      (598)
West Valley                 12.5%       12.0%       (0.5)     247,587
Encino                      8.4%        7.2%        (1.2)      44,223
Sherman Oaks                10.3%       9.3%        (1.0)      21,832
Van Nuys                    8.8%        9.6%         0.8      (15,721)
Pan. City/Mission Hills     26.1%       25.7%       (0.4)      1,875
Valencia/Newhall            36.2%       35.2%       (1.0)      6,317
Central Valley              14.0%       12.7%       (1.3)      58,526
Universal/Studio City       3.3%        6.1%         2.8      (51,346)
Burbank - Media District    0.5%        0.8%         0.3      (5,607)
Burbank - City Center       8.7%        6.1%        (2.6)      72,319
Glendale                    14.6%       14.8%        0.2      (5,165)
Pasadena                    7.6%        5.8%        (1.8)      96,615
Pasadena East               20.9%       9.2%       (l1.7)     125,340
North Hollywood             20.4%       17.8%       (2.6)      28,590
Tri-Cities                  10.1%       8.9%        (1.2)     260,746
Los Angeles Airport         25.6%       22.4%       (3.2)     115,386
El Segundo/Manhattan        13.3%       10.8%       (2.5)     221,048
190th Street Corridor       12.8%       12.1%       (0.7)     (6,600)
Central Torrance            12.3%       15.7%        3.4       78,312
San Pedro                   8.3%        7.2%        (1.1)      3,205
Long Beach Freeway          6.8%        4.9%        (1.9)      27,165
North Long Beach            18.6%       17.6%       (1.0)      10,761
Downtown Long Beach         15.6%       14.6%       (1.0)      39,014
East Long Beach             19.2%       18.4%       (0.8)       841
Cerritos                    18.8%       12.6%       (6.2)      38,016
South Bay                   15.0%       13.5%       (1.5)     527,148
West Hollywood              13.2%       9.7%        (3.5)      46,840
Beverly Hills               8.0%        6.7%        (1.3)      8,870
Century City                7.6%        6.7%        (0.9)      33,201
Westwood                    9.3%        8.2%        (1.1)      37,550
Brentwood                   7.5%        5.1%        (2.4)      55,666
Santa Monica                6.9%        3.2%        (3.7)     155,148
Pacific Palisades           4.7%        7.1%         2.4      (3,858)
West Los Angeles            9.0%        8.4%        (0.6)      13,374
Marina Del Rey/Venice       6.7%        9.1%         2.4      (25,140)
Culver City                 7.0%        5.3%        (1.7)      34,661
Los Angeles West            7.9%        6.3%        (1.6)     356,312
Los Angeles County Total    14.2%       12.8%       (1.4)    2,587,163
                                          Asking     Asking
                         Year-to-Date     Lease      Lease
                             Net           Rate [2]   Rate [2]
Market/Submarket          Absorption [3] 09/31/99   12/31/99
CBD/Financial District     589,066        $1.82      $1.82
South Park                  93,403        $1.36      $1.36
Central City East           24,288        $1.21      $1.22
Little Toyko/Chinatown      15,287        $1.23      $1.30
Central City West         (260,406)       $1.45      $1.47
Downtown                   461,638        $1.67      $1.67
Mid-Wilshire               528,104        $1.17      $1.19
Park Mile                  109,194        $1.39      $1.46
Miracle Mile               380,213        $1.90      $1.96
Hollywood                  183,732        $1.57      $1.63
Wilshire Center           1,201,243       $1.41      $1.44
Arcadia/Covina             168,915        $1.62      $1.66
El Monte                   141,680        $1.36      $1.38
Alhambra/Monterey Park     191,264        $1.54      $1.56
Industry/Diamond Bar       185,182        $1.88      $1.92
City of Commerce            89,997        $1.59      $1.58
San Gabriel Valley         777,038        $1.60      $1.67
Simi Valley                 15,613        $1.56      $1.54
Thousand Oaks/Newbury       38,210        $1.97      $1.96
Westlake Village           156,519        $1.88      $1.99
Agoura Hills                13,574        $1.84      $1.87
Calabasas                  101,444        $2.02      $2.00
Simi/Conejo Valley         325,360        $1.92      $1.98
Northridge/Reseda          (8,321)        $1.44      $1.45
Tarzana                     39,948        $1.60      $1.64
Chatsworth/Canoga Park      83,818        $1.74      $1.62
Warner Center              228,268        $2.20      $2.28
Woodland Hills              23,955        $1.78      $1.79
West Valley                367,668        $1.87      $1.87
Encino                     131,522        $1.86      $1.89
Sherman Oaks               112,000        $1.87      $1.89
Van Nuys                   146,412        $1.60      $1.69
Pan. City/Mission Hills     8,927         $1.36      $1.60
Valencia/Newhall           120,202        $1.88      $1.88
Central Valley             519,063        $1.87      $1.86
Universal/Studio City       81,784        $1.99      $2.34
Burbank - Media District    58,068        $2.71      $2.80
Burbank - City Center      207,156        $2.25      $2.14
Glendale                   349,677        $2.35      $2.43
Pasadena                   190,088        $2.11      $2.12
Pasadena East              175,524        $1.99      $1.78
North Hollywood             49,316        $1.75      $1.75
Tri-Cities                1,111,613       $2.17      $2.24
Los Angeles Airport        230,082        $1.24      $1.25
El Segundo/Manhattan       279,077        $1.99      $2.10
190th Street Corridor       54,194        $1.55      $1.55
Central Torrance           144,276        $1.56      $1.73
San Pedro                    (3)          $1.89      $1.87
Long Beach Freeway         188,858        $1.71      $1.71
North Long Beach            26,472        $1.25      $1.25
Downtown Long Beach        138,365        $1.71      $1.80
East Long Beach            (3,442)        $1.69      $1.67
Cerritos                   (43,809)       $1.88      $1.85
South Bay                 1,014,070       $1.64      $1.69
West Hollywood             102,975        $2.47      $2.43
Beverly Hills              165,649        $2.38      $2.40
Century City                15,471        $2.57      $2.67
Westwood                     325          $2.90      $2.89
Brentwood                  145,272        $2.62      $2.66
Santa Monica               396,995        $2.68      $2.64
Pacific Palisades           11,173        $2.67      $2.74
West Los Angeles             849          $1.98      $1.99
Marina Del Rey/Venice       65,991        $2.33      $2.47
Culver City                177,190        $1.96      $1.95
Los Angeles West          1,081,890       $2.47      $2.49
Los Angeles County Total  6,859,583       $1.79      $1.81


(*.)Rental rates reflect $psf/mo

(1.)Inventory includes all multi-tenant leased facilities over 25,000 square feet. It does not include medical facilities, owner occupied "Owner occupied" may also refer to a housing cooperative
Owner occupied is a classification of UK housing tenure as described by the Department for Communities and Local Government, a UK government department that has amongst its remit the monitoring of the UK housing stock.
 buildings nor government buildings.

(2.)Rental rates represent full-service gross weighted average asking rental rates on direct space as of Sept. 30, 1999.

(3.)Net Absorption is the change in occupied space for a given period of time excluding sublet sub·let  
tr.v. sub·let, sub·let·ting, sub·lets
1. To rent (property one holds by lease) to another.

2. To subcontract (work).

n.
 space and renewals.

Due to the transfer of owner/occupied space to competively leasable space and/or the delivery of new construction in the market, descrepencies may occur in the relation between vacancy rates and net absorption.

Year-end vacancy rates may include market adjustments made by Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.

Source: Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
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