SoldBroker Activity · Entry № 133

They Held It 20 Years. It Sold Empty for $9 Million.

The buyer, a fund with $2.8 billion of acquisitions behind it, took a 41,949-square-foot warehouse

PublishedAugust 27, 2026
StatusSold, Just Closed
DatelineThe Tape · Rancho Dominguez / Compton, Los Angeles
2840 E Harcourt Ave hero photo
FIG. 01, 2840 E Harcourt Ave, Compton, CA 90221. Listing photo via CoStar.
Four takeawaysFour things an operator sees at 2840 E Harcourt Ave.
  1. $214.55/SF on a vacant building.Faropoint closed at $9.0M on August 24, 2026. No income in place. The entire return thesis rests on lease-up speed in a submarket with 9.3% vacancy and a $15.16/SF subject-market rent against a $15.86/SF submarket average.
  2. The rent spread is thin.Market rent at $17.39/SF for the broader market but only $15.16/SF for this asset specifically. 
  3. Funds are acquiring Industrial. I continue to see big funds buying these industrial betting on the future shortage and the growth of e-commerce, US Manufacturing and Logistics. 
  4. Faropoint is deploying at scale.$2.8B in acquisitions vs. $792M in dispositions signals an active accumulator.  This gives more indication of a bottom in Industrial. 
Deal Stats · 2840 E Harcourt Ave
Sale Price
$9,000,000
confirmed
Price / SF
$214.55
building SF
Price / Land SF
$130.46
68,987 SF lot
Price / Acre
$5,682,808
1.58 acres
Building SF
41,949
single story
Year Built
1997
reinforced concrete
Vacancy at Sale
100%
lease-up play
Submarket Vacancy
9.3%
Rancho Dominguez
Market Rent (Subject)
$15.16/SF
CoStar estimate
ULA Tax Estimate
$360,000
above ULA threshold
Sale Date
Aug 24, 2026
investment sale type

The Location

2840 E Harcourt Ave sits in Compton's Rancho Dominguez industrial corridor, one of the South Bay's established warehouse submarkets. 

The Setup

The building is a 41,949 SF, single-story reinforced concrete warehouse on a 68,987 SF lot.

8 exterior dock doors, 1 drive-in, 24-foot clear height.

800A/277-480V three-phase heavy power.

What an Operator Sees

$214.55 a foot is the number I keep coming back to, and it bought zero income.

The building was 100% vacant at close, so there is no cap rate here, only a lease-up clock.

At the $15.16/SF subject-market rent.

 A 20-plus-year family-trust hold went to a national fund with $2.8B of acquisitions behind it.

This is giving me more conviction that Industrial is bottoming.

I research these transactions to sharpen my own investment strategy and share what I find so Los Angeles owners, brokers and investors can debate the market with better information.

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Property and transaction data: CoStar Research.

Written from the field

David Safai, operator, developer, GC.

Atlas Home Builders, Inc. is a Los Angeles owner-operator and general contractor. If you are a broker with a listing you want an honest read on, send the OM and the T-12 to David@AtlasBrief.La.