August 2026

Industrial warehouse building for sale in the West San Fernando Valley, Chatsworth CA

Owner-User vs. Leasing: Which Is Right for Your SFV Industrial Business?

For most of the last decade, the buy-versus-lease question answered itself in the San Fernando Valley. Sale prices ran away from what the monthly math could justify, vacancy sat under 2%, and any owner-user who wanted a building competed with investors paying cash. Leasing won by default. That has changed, and the headline numbers understate how much. CoStar data via Matthews puts the SFV's average...