Greg Cornfield

Gregory Cornfield is Commercial Observer’s Los Angeles editor. He grew up in Chicagoland and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Greg covered L.A. real estate news for The Real Deal, and was a breaking news reporter for City News Service Southern California.

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Brian Malliet (top), Luke Petherbridge (center), Al Rabil (bottom), and Golden West Business Park, Inland Empire, Calif.
Industrial · Investments & Sales
National

Blackstone’s Link Logistics Sells Light Industrial Portfolio for $1.8B

By Greg Cornfield
Construction continues on a mixed-use apartment complex in Los Angeles in 2024.
Residential · Investments & Sales
California

L.A.’s ULA Transfer Tax Further Hamstrings Investment: Report

By Greg Cornfield
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (left) and Lew Horne, president of CBRE's offices in Southern California.
Industry · Development
California

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass On Fast-Tracking Housing and Reviving Downtown

By Greg Cornfield
Sandy Sigal.
Retail · Leases
California

Prominent Landlord Sandy Sigal On the Lasting Premium in Retail

By Greg Cornfield
1001 Columbia Avenue in Riverside, Calif. and Walmart CEO, John Furner.
Industrial · Investments & Sales
California

Walmart Pays $223M for SoCal Cold-Storage Facility

By Greg Cornfield
Sandy Sigal of NewMark Merrill and an office robot.
Retail · Leases
California

A Big Retail Tenant Kept Saying No. Then AI Closed the Deal.

By Greg Cornfield
Justin Stein.
Retail · Leases
National

Tanger’s Justin Stein On Leveraging Data and Gnoshes to Grow a Retail Portfolio

By Greg Cornfield
ICSC Las Vegas in 2025.
Retail · Leases
National

ICSC 2026: Inflation, Trampoline Parks and the Fate of Luxury

By Max Gross and Greg Cornfield
Anokute Ebere, CBRE’s head of retail research for the Americas and people shopping.
Retail · Leases
National

Top CBRE Researcher Ebere Anokute: E-Commerce’s Impact Is ‘Overblown’

By Greg Cornfield
People walk with shopping bags.
Retail · Leases
National

CBRE’s Scott Schnuckel On Why Retail Is Back in Favor

By Greg Cornfield
Lea Clay Park.
Retail · Leases
California

Axiom Retail’s Lea Clay Park On Flattening Rents, Filling Shuttered Drugstores

By Greg Cornfield
Yorba Linda Commerce Center at 3910 Prospect Avenue.
Industrial · Finance
California

Harbor Associates-Led Venture Buys SoCal Industrial Park for $81M

By Greg Cornfield
The Hyatt Regency hotel in Ontario, Calif.
Hospitality · Finance
California

Hyatt in SoCal’s Inland Empire Secures $104M to Finance Upgrades

By Greg Cornfield
Kris Lowe (from left), Adam Simon, Michael Hyun, and R. Davis Powell participate in a panel at the Commercial Observer Development and Investor Forum in Dallas.
Industry · Leases
Texas

In Dallas-Fort Worth, the CRE Recovery Will Be Uneven

By Greg Cornfield
An illustration of a colonial era scientist in a modern lab.
Life Sciences · Players
National

Strange Brew: Capital Returns as Life Sciences Real Estate Market Bottoms Out

By Greg Cornfield
Laura Clark.
Industrial · Investments & Sales
California

New Rexford Industrial Realty CEO Laura Clark On the Southern California Market

By Greg Cornfield
Starwood Property Trust CEO Barry Sternlicht (top), President Jeff DiModica, and an empty warehouse.
Industry · Capital Markets
National

Starwood Property Trust Q1 Rental Income Shoots Up While It Settles Troubled Assets

By Greg Cornfield