Real Estate

There are signs of life in the Inland Empire office market. Office space vacancy in Riverside and San Bernardino counties dropped to 19.5 percent during the third quarter, according to data released this week by Colliers International. That represented a 2.2 decline from the second quarter of this year and …

Southern California’s housing market slipped in October, with sales dropping 4.4 percent year-to-year. A total of 20,150 new and resale houses and condominiums were sold last month in Southern California, according to DataQuick in San Diego, which released its monthly housing report yesterday. That was a 5.4 percent increase compared with …

Demand for industrial space in the Inland Empire soared during the third quarter, as that sector continues to shine during an otherwise slow recovery. An estimated 90 industrial leases and 40 industrial sales were completed in Riverside and San Bernardino counties during that quarter, according to Colliers International’s third quarter …

Workers have begun tilting up concrete walls at Empire Gateway in Chino, a project being billed as the largest speculative industrial project under construction in the western United States. The four-building development, which will cover 2.2 million square feet, is being built in one phase and is expected to be …

A business park on the west end of the Inland Empire has been sold. Montclair Business Center, a seven-building complex of light industrial and office buildings, sold for $8 million, according to Avison Young, the commercial real estate brokerage. Holualoa Montclair Business Center LLC sold the property to MNW Essex …

WD Land in Irvine has arranged the sale of 34 acres of commercial space in San Jacinto. Stone River Capital LLC bought Gateway Marketplace from Stone River Capital LLC for an undisclosed sum, according to a WD Land statement. The land is at the southwest corner of Ramona Expressway and …