Redwood City Debuts Peninsula’s First Entertainment Zone With Summer Pilot on Broadway
Three pilot activations will test outdoor alcohol consumption, live music, and games on the Broadway Pedestrian Mall as the city bets on downtown...
Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Survey Finds CRE Distress Has Peaked as Deals Close Despite War-Driven Rate Spike
The Summer 2026 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast survey of California commercial real estate sentiment found that industry distress has peaked and transactions are...
Morningstar Flags $505MM Loan on Meta’s 701,000-SQFT Moffett Towers II Campus in Sunnyvale as Layoffs Mount
Credit analysts have placed the $505 million loan backing Moffett Towers II Buildings 3 and 4 in Sunnyvale under watch after Meta Platforms,...
Strada Investment Group Closes $103MM Purchase of Samsara’s 133,427 SQFT Headquarters in San Francisco
The $771-per-square-foot deal for the fully leased Showplace Square building gives San Francisco’s recovering office market something it has lacked since the pandemic:...
Neighbourgood Sells 12-Room Sutter Mansion Boutique Hotel in San Francisco for $7.3MM
San Francisco – June 3, 2026 – CBRE has arranged the $7.3 million sale of Sutter Mansion, a 12‑room boutique hotel at 1409...
Bridge Debt Moves From Stopgap to Primary Structure as $875B in CRE Loans Mature
With permanent lenders selective and $875 billion in commercial mortgages coming due, sponsors are routing transitional deals to debt funds offering speed, flexibility...
Hall Equities Group Lists 97,790 SQFT Research Drive R&D Campus in Richmond
Walnut Creek investor brings two-building, 10-acre Hilltop flex property to a softening East Bay industrial market a decade after its $8.25MM acquisition. A...
Mass Timber Emerges as Embodied-Carbon Fix for Data Centers, Cutting Footprint Up to 60%
Engineers from Thornton Tomasetti and Gensler make the case that hybrid mass timber can slash data center embodied carbon and compress schedules without...
Amazon Lands as First Tenant at Scannell’s $100MM, 833,000 SQFT Westgate Industrial Center in West Fresno
The e-commerce giant takes down a 248,786-square-foot building at the long-delayed Marks Avenue project, deepening its Central Valley logistics footprint as national big-box...
San Jose Business Leaders Mobilize as Council Confronts $50MM Budget Deficit
The San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce is rallying business leaders ahead of Monday’s City Council budget hearing, where a $5.5 billion...
Palo Alto Converts Former Downtown Gym Building Into Bryant Street Community Center
The city repurposes its 2004-built downtown property at 429 Bryant St. into a teen center and permanent home for La Comida’s senior nutrition...
Balanced Demand Across Industries Supports Ongoing Momentum at Hacienda
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the leasing momentum established in late 2025...
Redwood City Debuts Peninsula’s First Entertainment Zone With Summer Pilot on Broadway
Three pilot activations will test outdoor alcohol consumption, live music, and games on the Broadway Pedestrian Mall as the city bets on downtown...
Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Survey Finds CRE Distress Has Peaked as Deals Close Despite War-Driven Rate Spike
The Summer 2026 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast survey of California commercial real estate sentiment found that industry distress has peaked and transactions are...
Bridge Debt Moves From Stopgap to Primary Structure as $875B in CRE Loans Mature
With permanent lenders selective and $875 billion in commercial mortgages coming due, sponsors are routing transitional deals to debt funds offering speed, flexibility...
Mass Timber Emerges as Embodied-Carbon Fix for Data Centers, Cutting Footprint Up to 60%
Engineers from Thornton Tomasetti and Gensler make the case that hybrid mass timber can slash data center embodied carbon and compress schedules without...
San Jose Business Leaders Mobilize as Council Confronts $50MM Budget Deficit
The San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce is rallying business leaders ahead of Monday’s City Council budget hearing, where a $5.5 billion...
San José Bets on Public Art to Activate Downtown Core Ahead of World Cup 2026 Crowds
A three-month kaleidoscope installation at Circle of Palms anchors the city’s bid to draw foot traffic to a downtown grappling with 30.8 percent...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Balanced Demand Across Industries Supports Ongoing Momentum at Hacienda
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the leasing momentum established in late...
Continue ReadingMorningstar Flags $505MM Loan on Meta’s 701,000-SQFT Moffett Towers II Campus in Sunnyvale as Layoffs Mount
Credit analysts have placed the $505 million loan backing Moffett Towers II Buildings 3 and 4 in Sunnyvale under watch after Meta Platforms,...
Autodesk Exit Tests $850MM One Market Plaza Loan as San Francisco Office Recovery Builds
Rithm and Blackstone face a 109,000-SQFT vacancy at the waterfront trophy as the SASB loan inches toward a February 2027 modified maturity. The...
Bay Area Locks In 21MM SQFT of AI Office Leasing as VC Capital Concentrates
CBRE’s 2026 Tech Gateway report shows San Francisco and Silicon Valley dominating AI demand, with 21 million square feet leased since 2019 and...
Hunter Partners’ Alder Creek Marketplace in Folsom Hits 90 Percent Leased with New Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services Leases
Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services commit to new retail center opening in fall 2027 FOLSOM, Calif. (May 14, 2026)— Hunter Partners,...
Rubicon Point Partners Lands Shockwave Medical’s 200,000 SQFT Santa Clara R&D Campus for $87.2MM in Opening Salvo of Billion-Dollar West Coast Push
The San Francisco-based investment firm secures a four-building, 12.86-acre campus fully NNN leased to a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, signaling an aggressive new...
Meta Pulls the Plug on 1.6MM SQFT Willow Village in Menlo Park, Halting Silicon Valley’s Most Ambitious Corporate Campus
The 59-acre Menlo Park mega-project, first envisioned a decade ago to house 7,000 employees, joins a growing list of casualties as the tech...
Newmark Hires Drew Petersen as San Francisco Market Leader
San Francisco, CA (May 18, 2026) — Newmark today announces that the Company has hired industry veteran Drew Petersen as Executive Vice President...
Basin Street Properties Announces Three Leadership Promotions
RENO, NV (April 14, 2026) – Basin Street Properties announced the promotions of Elaine Nelson to Vice President of Operations, Stephen Biehle to...
Bay Area Council Announces Libby Schaaf as New President and CEO
The Sobrato Organization CEO Tony Mestres Elected Board Chair to succeed Kristina Lawson as her term ends The Bay Area Council today (April...
CBRE Elevates Mike Taquino and Kyle Kovac to Lead San Francisco Bay Area Office Capital Markets
The team has advised on more than $30 billion in commercial real estate transactions San Francisco – March 18, 2026 – CBRE announced...
Orange Buensuceso Promoted to Director of San Francisco at FPBA
Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects (FPBA) has promoted Orange Buensuceso, AIA, LEED AP, to Director of San Francisco, a milestone that takes on added...
The Data Center Bargain: What Every Town Should Demand
Free power. Free heat. Clean water. The bargain every town should be demanding. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bed Bath & Boomerang
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) In August 2025, Marcus Lemonis, the executive chairman of Beyond, Inc.—which is to...
McNellis: F*** Real Estate?
Publisher’s Note What began over a decade ago as a series of candid, sharp-witted articles written for The Registry has grown into one of the...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
The Buyer Who Wasn’t There
The record gap between home sellers and buyers reveals a tale of two Americas—Sun Belt markets drowning in oversupply while Northern cities with...
Feed the Machine: AI Could Unjam San Francisco’s 280-Day Permitting Nightmare
The city knows its building codes better than anyone. The problem is it takes 280 days to prove it. What if a computer...
San José Bets on Public Art to Activate Downtown Core Ahead of World Cup 2026 Crowds
A three-month kaleidoscope installation at Circle of Palms anchors the city’s bid to draw foot traffic to a downtown grappling with 30.8 percent...
Ensign Group Acquires 46-Unit Memory Care of Contra Costa in Pleasant Hill for $8.9MM
San Juan Capistrano-based healthcare operator pays roughly $193,500 per unit for a Northern California memory care facility as senior housing investment volume reaches...
Chawla Ventures Buys 58,000 SQFT North San Jose R&D Building Anchored by Lyten for $13.5MM
A North San Jose research and office building anchored by lithium-sulfur battery developer Lyten trades to a Palo Alto investor at a discount...
Rad AI Lands 11,500 SQFT Headquarters at 55 2nd St. in San Francisco’s Financial District
The remote-first radiology AI company nearly quadrupled its footprint at the KPMG Building, betting on in-person space to win the AI talent race....
Downtown Development Corporation Lands $14.5MM Powell Street Stake as First-Year Haul Tops $60MM
One year after launch, SF’s Downtown Development Corporation closes the funding gap on the $40.2MM Powell Street remake, capping a $60MM-plus push to...
Asia Live Lands 15,000 SQFT Anchor Slot at Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara
George and Cindy Wong-Chen’s pan-Asian successor to China Live takes over the shuttered iChina space as Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield doubles down on dining to defend...
U.S. Steel Affiliate Lists 445-Acre Pittsburg Data Center and Industrial Site for Sale
U.S. Steel Property Holdings markets the former USS-POSCO steel mill complex as a power-secured, port-served data center and heavy industrial campus six months...
Cal Poly Cuts Ribbon on $45MM John Madden Football Center in San Luis Obispo
Populous-designed, PCL-built training facility opens behind Spanos Stadium as Big Sky schools double down on athletics infrastructure. Cal Poly will cut the ribbon...
