How Los Angeles is zoned, priced, and owned.

South Beverly Properties invests in Los Angeles real estate. Its research on planning, markets, and the public companies that own the city will be published here.

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Plate 01 · Illustrative
Lenses
  • R1Single-family
  • RDRestricted density
  • R3Multifamily
  • CCommercial
  • CMCommercial manufacturing
  • PParking
  • OSOpen space
  • PFPublic facilities
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Plate 01 is illustrative. All of its data is synthetic.

One district, three lenses.

Every study reads the city through one of three lenses. Here are the same three parcels beside the stop on Plate 01, read each way.

Urban planningWhat the code allows on a parcel, and what plans change.
Market analysisRents, values, and new supply, by submarket.
EquitiesPublic companies that own, build, and finance the city.
Parcel AC4-1VLCommercial83Value indexListed developer
Parcel BR3-1Multifamily48Value indexListed REIT
Parcel CRD1.5-1Restricted density37Value indexPrivate owner
Parcels A, B, and C are synthetic, from Plate 01. Value index: 100 is the highest-valued parcel on the plate.

Research index

Sample topics, shown until the first research is published. Numbers 1 to 3 are pinned on Plate 01.

No.ResearchLensArea
1Station areas on the Westside: what the zoning allowsUrban planningWestside
2Multifamily rents against new supply, by submarketMarket analysisLA County
3The listed landlords of Los Angeles rental housingEquitiesLA County
4The city’s transfer tax and deal volume at the high endMarket analysisCity of LA
5Office-to-residential conversions under adaptive reuseUrban planningDowntown
6Homebuilder land holdings in the Inland EmpireEquitiesInland Empire

Research from the owner’s side of the table.

South Beverly Properties owns and invests in real estate in Los Angeles, and takes on research and advisory work. The research published here will be how we read the city: what the rules allow on a parcel, what it trades for, and which public companies hold it.

New research publishes here first. Subscriptions open with the first piece.