{"id":331454,"date":"2026-05-25T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331454\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:23:10","slug":"oc50-2026-laura-khouri-orange-county-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331454\/","title":{"rendered":"OC50 2026: LAURA KHOURI &#8211; Orange County Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT\/COO <\/p>\n<p>WESTERN NATIONAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT<\/p>\n<p>WHY: Runs 23K units, 160+ rental properties, SoCal, Nevada, for Irvine-based Western National Property Group. Joined in 1985. Tapped as president in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>IN THE NEWS: Honored as one of GlobeSt.\u2019s 2024 Women of Influence; one of CRE\u2019s Best Bosses for 2024, as well as her division of WNG, Western National Property Management, was named one of CRE\u2019s Best Places to Work in 2024. NOTABLE: Community work includes Chapman University, Prentice School, JSerra, Laura\u2019s House shelter, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute<\/p>\n<p>IN HER WORDS: \u201cThe post-pandemic landscape continues to reshape migration patterns and renter demand, creating clear winners in markets with strong job growth and manageable new supply\u2026 California, particularly Orange County, has demonstrated notable stability. At the same time, the Sun Belt continues to lead the way, with nearly two-thirds of its metros offering below-median rents and above-average job growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149624 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SR_OC50_badge-1-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT\/COO WESTERN NATIONAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WHY: Runs 23K units, 160+ rental properties, SoCal, Nevada, for Irvine-based Western National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-331454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}