Peninsula Land & Capital Acquires 152,300-SQFT Office Complex in San Jose for $25MM
With Silicon Valley office vacancy at a 22.5 percent ceiling and a construction pipeline at a 14-year low, Peninsula Land & Capital’s $25...
Intel Foundry Breaks Ground on 102,000 SQFT EUV Photomask Facility at Santa Clara’s Bowers Campus
Intel has started construction on a three-story mask-making complex at its Bowers Campus in Santa Clara, a compact but strategically loaded project that...
Rivian Automotive Signs 60,000 SQFT Lease at 4100 Northgate Blvd. in Sacramento
With a distribution center already anchoring Metro Air Park and service outposts in West Sacramento and Rocklin, Rivian’s Northgate lease doesn’t just fill...
El Camino Health Completes $149MM, 210,000 SQFT Women’s Hospital Expansion in Mountain View
El Camino Health has wrapped up a four-year, $149 million reconstruction of its Mountain View Women’s Hospital, expanding maternal and neonatal capacity at...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits 6.1MM SQFT in H1 2026, Best First Half Since 2000 as Vacancy Slides to 30.1%
San Francisco’s office market has strung together its strongest first-half leasing performance in a quarter century, with AI-driven demand pulling vacancy and sublease...
Mill Creek Files Plans to Raze Downtown San Rafael Safeway for 331-Unit Apartment Building
Mill Creek Residential has filed a pre-application to demolish the Safeway anchoring Downtown San Rafael and replace it with an eight-story, 331-unit apartment...
NAIOP Becomes the Commercial Real Estate Development Association
Association adopts a new name that more clearly represents its members, their work, and its role as the leading voice for commercial real...
Prologis Pays $14MM for 14-Acre Vacant Industrial Site at 455 Piercy in South San Jose
The world’s largest industrial landlord quietly tripled a South San Jose land bet — buying an entitled but unbuilt 14-acre site for $14...
Gensler Research Finds the District, Not the Stadium, Now Drives Fan Decisions Across North America
New research from the Gensler Research Institute, drawn from nearly 6,000 residents across major U.S. and Canadian metros, finds that the neighborhoods built...
Marin County Community Development Agency Issues Final Building Permit for 125-Unit Marinwood Apartments in San Rafael
Construction to begin on 125-unit affordable housing community Marin County, CA — An affordable housing development in unincorporated Marin has reached a significant...
GM Lands Nearly 340,000 SQFT Palo Alto Campus at Stanford Research Park, Picking Broadcom Site Over Sunnyvale
General Motors has signed a lease for nearly 340,000 square feet at the former Broadcom campus in Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park, ending...
NAIOP Becomes the Commercial Real Estate Development Association
Association adopts a new name that more clearly represents its members, their work, and its role as the leading voice for commercial real...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits 6.1MM SQFT in H1 2026, Best First Half Since 2000 as Vacancy Slides to 30.1%
San Francisco’s office market has strung together its strongest first-half leasing performance in a quarter century, with AI-driven demand pulling vacancy and sublease...
Gensler Research Finds the District, Not the Stadium, Now Drives Fan Decisions Across North America
New research from the Gensler Research Institute, drawn from nearly 6,000 residents across major U.S. and Canadian metros, finds that the neighborhoods built...
GM Lands Nearly 340,000 SQFT Palo Alto Campus at Stanford Research Park, Picking Broadcom Site Over Sunnyvale
General Motors has signed a lease for nearly 340,000 square feet at the former Broadcom campus in Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park, ending...
San Francisco’s Record Rent Surge Spills Into Oakland, Driving the East Bay’s Biggest Gain Since 2023
San Francisco apartment rents posted the fastest annual growth of any U.S. city this year, and that pressure is now flowing across the...
California Clinches Nation’s No. 2 GDP Growth at 3.7% in First Quarter
California’s economy grew at a 3.7 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest pace in the country, as a...
Gensler’s City Pulse 2026 Splits the Bay Area: San Francisco Lands Top-Tier Stickiness as San Jose Trails
The Bay Area’s two largest downtowns diverged sharply in Gensler’s largest-ever global study of urban experience, with San Francisco ranking among the nation’s...
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 ReadingRivian Automotive Signs 60,000 SQFT Lease at 4100 Northgate Blvd. in Sacramento
With a distribution center already anchoring Metro Air Park and service outposts in West Sacramento and Rocklin, Rivian’s Northgate lease doesn’t just fill...
Disney Streaming Services Nears 76,000 SQFT Lease at One Market Plaza, Nearly Doubling Its San Francisco Footprint as Owners Race to Refinance $850MM Loan
As Rithm Capital and Blackstone race to refinance $850 million in debt on One Market Plaza while pouring money into a sweeping amenity...
San Francisco Brewing Co. Opens 17,000 SQFT Brewery and Restaurant at Kilroy’s 100 Hooper in Mission Bay
San Francisco Brewing Co. is betting its largest project yet on Mission Bay, opening an 18,680-square-foot production brewery, restaurant and first-ever distillery inside...
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...
City of San Francisco Expands 1455 Market St. Lease by 502,000 SQFT in $1B-Plus Deal, the Region’s Largest Since 2018
San Francisco has committed to its largest office lease since 2018, expanding the city government’s footprint at Hudson Pacific Properties’ 1455 Market St....
Stanford Files Plans for 1.75MM SQFT Cancer Center in Redwood City, the Largest Project in University History
Stanford Medicine this week submitted an updated project description to Redwood City for an integrated cancer hospital, clinic and research complex that would...
Suffolk Taps Armond Balaian to Scale Work and Expand New Office in Silicon Valley
Strategic hire strengthens Suffolk’s local leadership as infrastructure needs accelerate across Silicon Valley SAN FRANCISCO – Suffolk, one of the most innovative and...
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...
California Never: A New City That Keeps Changing Its Mind
Five identities in three years, zero houses, and one very nervous neighbor. Opinion by Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
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...
Assort Health Secures 62,400 SQFT Lease at One Market Plaza’s Spear Tower in San Francisco
A healthcare AI unicorn with 20x revenue growth and $222 million in fresh capital commits to three upper floors of One Market Plaza’s...
Pepper Lane Properties Lists 20,000 SQFT Los Gatos Office and Retail Building for $13MM
Pepper Lane Properties has placed a half-vacant, two-story office and retail building on one of Los Gatos’s busiest commercial corridors up for sale...
Terreno Lands New Tenant for 94,000 SQFT Union City Building After Tenaya’s $2MM Early Lease Exit
Terreno Realty Corporation backfilled a 94,000-square-foot Union City industrial building almost immediately after its biopharmaceutical tenant agreed to pay roughly $2 million to...
Boyd Watterson Acquires UC Davis Health-Leased, 82,053 SQFT Sacramento Warehouse for $41MM
Boyd Watterson Asset Management has paid $41 million for a newly built, LEED Gold industrial facility in Sacramento that houses UC Davis Health’s...
La Scuola Opens 20,370 SQFT, $34.85MM Vertical Campus at 3270 18th Street in San Francisco’s Mission
La Scuola International School has completed a purpose-built, four-story campus in San Francisco’s Mission District, capping a roughly $35 million project financed largely...
San Francisco’s Record Rent Surge Spills Into Oakland, Driving the East Bay’s Biggest Gain Since 2023
San Francisco apartment rents posted the fastest annual growth of any U.S. city this year, and that pressure is now flowing across the...
Bridgepoint’s $1.39B Kayne Anderson Real Estate Buyout Hands a London Owner One of the Bay Area’s Busiest Light-Industrial Buyers
A London-listed private markets firm has agreed to buy Kayne Anderson Real Estate for roughly $1.39 billion, putting a UK owner atop a...
California Clinches Nation’s No. 2 GDP Growth at 3.7% in First Quarter
California’s economy grew at a 3.7 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest pace in the country, as a...