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San Francisco Office Market Roars Back: Brokers Report Best Activity in Six Years
Exclusive panel discussion reveals 10 million square feet leased in 2025, AI driving 25 percent of demand, and institutional investors returning to the...
Exclusive: Ned Segal Says San Francisco’s Downtown Revival Is Just Getting Started
The city’s housing chief discusses Mayor Lurie’s reorganization, the AI boom, and why 2026 will mark a turning point San Francisco is betting...
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp. Places 199-Unit Senior Housing Project at 1234 Great Highway on Extended Hiatus
Financing challenges delay eight-story affordable development in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset District until at least 2028 A planned affordable housing project in San...
Strada Wins Key Approval for 145-Home Palo Alto Project on Alexandria’s Property After Invoking State Housing Law
A controversial townhome development moves closer to reality as city officials acknowledge limited power to block it Strada Investment Group, a San Francisco-based...
Ballast Investments Completes Sale of Seven-Property San Francisco Portfolio for $38.9MM
San Francisco-based Ballast Investments has completed the sale of its seven-property, 94-unit apartment portfolio to an entity affiliated with New York-based Raith Capital...
Nvidia Plans Massive 692,000 SQFT Campus Expansion in Santa Clara
The chip giant seeks approval for three-story complex with underground parking and solar-covered surface lots as Silicon Valley real estate heats up Nvidia...
McNellis on CMBS: “Commercial Mortgage BS”
By John McNellis This essay is taken from John’s forthcoming 3rd edition of Making it in Real Estate. I was leaning against the bar...
Blackstone’s $130MM Four Seasons Bet Signals San Francisco Hotel Revival
Investment giant’s first hotel purchase in the city in a decade marks turning point for once-struggling luxury market Blackstone is poised to acquire...
DRA Advisors & CenterCal Spend $116MM for 300,000 SQFT Fig Garden Village in Fresno
(Editor’s note: According to public records reviewed by The Registry, the sale closed on May 12, 2025 for $115,800,000, or $386 per square foot....
Hudson Pacific’s Losses Deepen Despite Bay Area Leasing Gains
Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE: HPP) reported another quarterly loss in its third-quarter 2025 earnings, underscoring the persistent financial pressure facing one of the...
Wharton Doubles Down on San Francisco’s Office Comeback with 80,000 SQFT Lease in Vanbarton’s 345 Montgomery
The University of Pennsylvania’s executive education program is expanding into the historic “Cube” building just as the city’s commercial real estate market shows...
Electric Warfare in Palo Alto: Rivian-VW Joint Venture Eyes Space in Silicon Valley’s Auto Corridor
As federal incentives evaporate and automakers slash prices to survive, the battle for EV talent intensifies in the region’s established automotive research hub...
