UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate

08/18/2026

🎬 Celebrating 25 Years of Impact!

UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate affiliated scholar Dr. Dana Cuff, Distinguished Professor of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design and UCLA Urban Planning, and Director of cityLAB-ucla, shares how 15 years of partnership with the Ziman Center has helped cityLAB shape California housing policy and urban design.

Thank you, Dana, for your vision, leadership, and continued collaboration. Here’s to the next 25 years of building better communities together! ✨

08/07/2026

“There hasn’t been a new generation of starter homes since post WWII. How do we get back to that?” said Dana Cuff, director of UCLA's cityLAB, which is spearheading this phase of the “Small Lots, Big Impacts” initiative, focused on turning vacant, privately owned parcels into affordable homeownership opportunities."

"Affordable homeownership is “a big hole in the market,” said Emmanuel Proussaloglou, co-director of cityLAB UCLA. “If we do this right, hopefully this is going to be the first step in making that available.”

https://www.smalllots.citylab.ucla.edu/privateland-rfi

A new initiative seeks to model a solution for affordable homeownership: building multifamily complexes on L.A.'s 20,000 small, vacant, privately owned lots.

08/05/2026

The Summer 2026 Allen Matkins & UCLA Anderson School of Management Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey is now available!

The state's commercial real estate market continues to stabilize, although performance remains uneven across property types.

Industrial continues to exhibit the strongest fundamentals, multifamily remains resilient, retail confidence has improved, and office markets are showing clearer signs of recovery despite limited new construction. Overall, respondents report a market characterized by cautious optimism, supported by improving fundamentals but tempered by persistent financing and cost challenges.

Learn more about what holds ahead for the sectors of office, retail, industrial and multifamily across California.

Available for download on the Allen Matkins website:
➡️ https://www.allenmatkins.com/anderson-forecast/allen-matkins-ucla-anderson-forecast-california-cre-survey.html

On UCLA Anderson Forecast's website:
➡️ https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/centers/ucla-anderson-forecast/projects-and-partnerships/allen-matkins/summer-2026-survey

08/05/2026

08/05/2026

🎬 Celebrating 25 Years of Impact!

Recent UCLA graduate Ashley Smith (B.A. 2026) credits the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate with transforming her undergraduate college experience and setting her career path in commercial real estate. While navigating a massive university can be daunting, Ashley found a tight-knit community at the center, where dedicated staff provided continuous guidance alongside key mentorship opportunities and invaluable industry connections.

08/04/2026

In the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate's July 2026 UCLA Affordable Housing Policy Brief, THE MISSING-MIDDLE REVOLUTION, Ziman associate Jack Skelley and UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's cityLAB UCLA co-director Emmanuel Proussaloglou discuss his team’s latest initiative to spur development of attainable housing, especially for the “missing middle,” a greatly underserved market in California. Proussaloglou describes cityLAB’s innovative Small Lots, Big Impacts competition and programs, designed to gently increase density, resulting in more affordable homes.

Download the PDF: https://bit.ly/July2026-UCLA-AHPB
Past briefs: https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/centers/ucla-ziman-center-for-real-estate/faculty-and-research/ucla-affordable-housing-policy-brief

The UCLA Affordable Housing Policy Brief is sponsored by the UCLA Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Program in Real Estate, Finance and Urban Economics and the California Department of Real Estate UCLA/Ziman Center Endowment Fund.

08/04/2026

"Near Center of Palisades Fire, a Sign of a Comeback - Rick Caruso, the billionaire real estate developer and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate, is reviving a property still surrounded by burned-out lots."

Rick Caruso, the billionaire real estate developer and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate, is reviving a property still surrounded by burned-out lots.

07/31/2026

"As more people face the prospect of renting forever, there's concern about the long-term consequences.

""Most middle class families have most of their wealth in their homes," said Mechele Dickerson, who researches housing and the middle class at the University of Texas at Austin. "For young adults who are middle class, they are facing a future of no wealth."

"To be clear, Dickerson sees nothing wrong with renting if people can still save for retirement; it's more flexible and less hassle. But for generations, especially for the middle class, housing wealth has been key in helping many do better than their parents."

Housing has long been the largest source of wealth for middle income families. But many renters cannot afford to buy as housing prices soar, which could fuel a generational divide.

07/24/2026

LA4LA is a first of its kind partnership bringing together government, civic leaders, banks, foundations and developers to design and deploy innovative financing tools that cut through the barriers stalling affordable housing development. LA4LA recently launched the Incremental Loan Guarantee Tool, developed with input and guidance from developers, lenders and property managers. This tool guarantees the incremental debt that is supported by the "rent overhang" - the difference between a covenanted rent and the rent paid by vouchers or other rental subsidy programs.

Check out the LA4LA website to learn more: https://www.la4la.org/guaranteetool