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Alena Botros retweeted
After reporting a $218 million loss in the third quarter — worse than the $136.5 million in Q3 2025 — Hudson Pacific Properties CEO Victor Coleman said Netflix buying Radford Studio Center is “not a concern of ours.”
@alenabotros dives into the REIT’s numbers and its next steps at the link.
bit.ly/4iGm5AY
Alena Botros retweeted
The Alexander brothers were sentenced in their federal sex trafficking case to 30 years in prison.
Read the breaking report: therealdeal.com/national/202…
Alena Botros retweeted
Los Angeles' infamous graffiti towers have been scrubbed. Mostly.
The buyers behind a $470M deal for Oceanwide Plaza faced a court-ordered cleanup deadline. But with graffiti still visible and vandals reportedly returning, @AlenaBotros finds the results are a "split decision."
therealdeal.com/la/2026/10/2…
Alena Botros retweeted
Scoop: Real estate lawyer Leo Jacobs and investor Alex Adjmi got banned from the Aman Club after getting into a fight in the cigar lounge earlier this year
The rap sheets on these guys get a bit longer
therealdeal.com/new-york/202…
Alena Botros retweeted
Another crack in LA's studio market: @AlenaBotros reports a lender is shopping Blackstone and Hudson Pacific's $200M Sunset Glenoaks campus, completed just two years ago. The property is empty, and buyers are being asked to name their price.
therealdeal.com/la/2026/10/2…
Alena Botros retweeted
Prosecutors want the Alexander brothers imprisoned for life. Their attorneys call that recommendation “cruel” and “unprecedented.” A federal judge will soon decide their fate.
Read the latest from @KKallergis and @SheridanLWall:
therealdeal.com/national/202…
Alena Botros retweeted
What would California’s proposed billionaire tax cost its real estate elite? For some of Southern California’s biggest property moguls, the answer could exceed $1 billion. @alenabotros breaks it down:
therealdeal.com/la/2026/10/1…
Alena Botros retweeted
The Alexander brothers are the subjects of a new Peacock documentary. The Real Deal reporters @KKallergis and @SheridanLWall, who broke the news of the first sexual assault lawsuits against the brothers, appear in the three-part series examining the scandal that rocked luxury real estate.
Watch the trailer:
Alena Botros retweeted
Paramount says it isn't leaving Hollywood. But how much Hollywood will it actually need?
A Paramount-Warner merger could put even more pressure on L.A.'s already struggling soundstage market, with billions in debt and plenty of real estate to "rationalize."
Watch as @MattHoffmanNews explains what's at stake.
Alena Botros retweeted
Tech-founder-turned-real-estate-investor Daniel Negari took his hotel shopping spree to downtown Los Angeles, buying Hotel Per La from Waterfall Asset Management for $34 million.
Full story at the link:
bit.ly/4h49vuJ
Alena Botros retweeted
Michael Hackman has lost the former Sony campus in Culver City after defaulting on roughly $100 million in debt, with Fortress taking control of the vacant property. Now the city itself may buy it.
Read more from @alenabotros: therealdeal.com/la/2026/09/0…
Alena Botros retweeted
Gary Barnett has spent decades reshaping New York's skyline. Now, at 70, real estate is confronting a harder development question:
What happens to Extell after Gary?
@byRichBockmann examines the succession question hanging over one of New York's most consequential developers: therealdeal.com/magazine/sep…
Alena Botros retweeted
Aby Rosen bought a $1M Manhattan condo — not for the apartment, but for the leverage. Watch @byRichBockmann explain how one modest unit became a chess piece in a much bigger Midtown feud.
Alena Botros retweeted
Victor Coleman built one of Hollywood's biggest studio empires on a simple bet: production companies would pay a premium to keep offices and soundstages together.
Then the script flipped.
Now Netflix is buying the studio lot Coleman once wanted, while Hudson Pacific works through roughly $1 billion in Hollywood debt.
Can one of L.A.'s biggest studio landlords adapt? Read more from @AlenaBotros:
therealdeal.com/magazine/aug…
Alena Botros retweeted
America's richest real estate developer just placed his political bet. @AlenaBotros reports Donald Bren's Irvine Company gave the maximum direct contribution to Xavier Becerra's California governor campaign, joining a growing list of real estate heavyweights backing the Democrat.
therealdeal.com/la/2026/08/0…
Alena Botros retweeted
Often in real estate, the bigger you build, the higher the stakes become. @KKallergis' August cover follows developer Michael Stern, whose skyline-defining ambitions are colliding with lawsuits, fractured partnerships and a tightening capital market.
Read more in @eisenpress' editor's letter: therealdeal.com/magazine/aug…
Alena Botros retweeted
A Jacquemus storefront just sold for $7,250 per square foot. Outside Rodeo Drive, that's almost unheard of in Los Angeles retail.
Who paid the premium, and why? Join @AlenaBotros inside the deal. therealdeal.com/la/2026/07/2…
Alena Botros retweeted
For years, Oceanwide Plaza symbolized downtown L.A.'s broken promises. It may finally have a path forward. @alenabotros reports:
therealdeal.com/la/2026/07/2…
