Press Releases

SAN DIEGO, August 20, 2012 — Capstone Advisors, a San Diego-based commercial real estate investment and asset management firm, announces that Marc Stanworth has joined the company as vice president where he will play a key role in the firm’s real estate investment activities including sourcing, underwriting and executing new acquisition and development opportunities…(Read Press Release)

SAN DIEGO, August 15, 2012 — Capstone Advisors, a San Diego-based commercial real estate investment firm with a strong track record of investing in value-added real estate transactions, has purchased a four-building, 57,893-square-foot showroom retail and industrial flex project in Palm Desert, Calif., for $4.35 million. The property was purchased from the lender who had taken ownership of the property after a loan default…(Read Press Release)

As successful turnaround specialists who have revived 6 million square feet of real estate, we’d like to showcase our most recent commercial property repositioning of a shopping center that had fallen on hard times.

SAN DIEGO, January 8, 2012 — Capstone Advisors, a San Diego-based commercial real estate investment firm, has purchased Heritage Court, a 41,438-square-foot neighborhood-serving retail center in Indio, Calif., for $4.75 million. To meet the seller’s year-end closing requirement …(Read Press Release)

San Diego, Calif. — Capstone Advisors, a San Diego-based real estate investment, asset management and advisory firm, has purchased a 10,749-square-foot retail project located in La Quinta, CA. The property was acquired from a lender at a 50% discount from the original loan that had been foreclosed…
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San Diego Business Journal
Capstone Advisors of Carlsbad recently purchased a 40,000-square-foot shopping center in Escondido for $3.9 million, and is scoping the market for similar properties as financing fundamentals continue to improve.
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San Diego Business Journal
As new shopping center construction remains rare in San Diego County, some older established centers with solid customer traffic have recently changed hands. Sales of two prominent centers in Escondido were announced earlier this month…
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San Diego, Calif. — Capstone Advisors, a San Diego-based real estate investment, asset management and advisory firm, has purchased the Mission Escondido Shopping Center, a 40,317-square-foot retail complex in Escondido, for $3.9 million from a subsidiary of Kennedy Wilson Properties. The company plans to use its asset management and repositioning expertise to give the project a much needed facelift to complement the community and to serve current and future tenants and their customers…
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CARLSBAD, Calif. – Capstone Advisors, a Southern California-based real estate investment, development and asset management company celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, continues its pattern of buying well-located, highly desirable lots with its recent purchase of the largest lots in the Griffin Ranch master-planned community located in the Riverside County community of La Quinta, Calif…
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San Diego Business Journal – Commentary
[Excerpt] Alex Zikakis, president and CEO of Carlsbad-based Capstone Advisors Inc., whose offerings include receivership services, said lenders will be selling distressed properties in 2011, in a “cleansing” process that began slowly last year and could continue through 2014…
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