110-Unit 707 Leahy Apartments in Redwood City Trade for $73.9MM as Aimco Advances Liquidation
A 1031 exchange buyer has closed on Aimco’s fully redeveloped 110-unit 707 Leahy apartment community in Redwood City for $73.9 million, converting one...
Google Renews 2.1 Million SQFT Across Moffett Place and Moffett Gateway in Sunnyvale
A reversal from Google’s 2023 sublease push, the renewal lands as Silicon Valley vacancy hits a Bay Area low and Amazon, OpenAI and...
Oakland’s 1 Kaiser Plaza Appraisal Craters 75% to $53.5MM as Kaiser Permanente Retreats
A fresh appraisal has slashed the value of CIM Group’s 1 Kaiser Plaza in downtown Oakland to $53.5 million, roughly a quarter of...
CIM Group Loses Control of Historic 165,000 SQFT Central Tower in San Francisco as Receiver Takes Over
A San Francisco Superior Court judge has placed the historic Central Tower into receivership after owner CIM Group defaulted on a $98 million...
Apple Leases 125,800 SQFT Sunnyvale Office Building from Peery Arrillaga
The lease extends a pattern Apple has repeated across its recent Sunnyvale buying spree — occupy first, then acquire — as the South...
Prologis Points to San Francisco Bay Area as Early Leader in Rotation Back to Coastal Markets
Prologis singled out the San Francisco Bay Area as the clearest early sign of a broader shift back toward coastal industrial markets, ranking...
Port of San Francisco Backs $38MM Incentive Package to Rescue 164-Room Teatro ZinZanni Hotel on the Embarcadero
Facing a $30 million hole that has kept one of the Embarcadero’s marquee waterfront projects frozen for the better part of a decade,...
Bay Area Regional Shopping Center Occupancy Hits 93.86%, a 4-Year High as Large-Format Retailers Return
Occupancy across the Bay Area’s flagship power centers reached its strongest level since early 2022 during the second quarter, propelled by East Bay...
Adeline Alliance Unveils Preliminary Designs for 618-Unit Ashby BART Development in Berkeley
The development team behind Berkeley’s Ashby BART Station project has released its first design images, showing five buildings and roughly 600 apartments rising...
Campbell Opens 28,000 SQFT Police Headquarters Backed by $30MM From Measure O Bond
Campbell has delivered a two-story, 27,500-square-foot police headquarters at 100 North First Street, ending 55 years of housing its department below ground and...
Liquidity Roars Back to Bay Area Debt Markets as Office Lending Returns, Newmark’s Daya Says
The question haunting commercial real estate borrowers two years ago has been answered, and the debt markets that froze after a wave of...
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 Points to San Francisco Bay Area as Early Leader in Rotation Back to Coastal Markets
Prologis singled out the San Francisco Bay Area as the clearest early sign of a broader shift back toward coastal industrial markets, ranking...
Bay Area Regional Shopping Center Occupancy Hits 93.86%, a 4-Year High as Large-Format Retailers Return
Occupancy across the Bay Area’s flagship power centers reached its strongest level since early 2022 during the second quarter, propelled by East Bay...
Liquidity Roars Back to Bay Area Debt Markets as Office Lending Returns, Newmark’s Daya Says
The question haunting commercial real estate borrowers two years ago has been answered, and the debt markets that froze after a wave of...
California Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.2% in June, Lowest Since May 2024
California’s jobless rate ground down to its lowest level in more than a year even as employers trimmed payrolls for a second straight...
Walnut Creek Office Market Turns a Corner as Absorption Goes Positive for First Time Since 2023
The Walnut Creek office market posted its first quarter of positive net absorption in more than two years during the second quarter of...
Napa And Solano Office Vacancy Eases As Landlords Slash Rents
The Napa and Solano Counties office market clawed back occupancy in the second quarter of 2026, but landlords paid for the gains by...
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 ReadingGoogle Renews 2.1 Million SQFT Across Moffett Place and Moffett Gateway in Sunnyvale
A reversal from Google’s 2023 sublease push, the renewal lands as Silicon Valley vacancy hits a Bay Area low and Amazon, OpenAI and...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits Record Highs as Real Vacancy Nears 15%, Newmark’s Adler Says
San Francisco office leasing has surged to all-time highs in the first half of 2026, and a Newmark building-by-building analysis argues the market’s...
Bauen Capital Moves to Carve Two Downtown Sacramento Office Buildings Totaling 197,000 SQFT Into For-Sale Condominiums
Seven years after Bauen Capital bought a pair of derelict K Street landmarks on the thesis that California state agencies would fill them,...
Omakase World Market Opens in BioMed Realty’s Biotech and Innovation Hub in South San Francisco
The Omakase Restaurant Group completely reimagined dining in the heart of the Bay Area’s innovation corridor SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–The Omakase Restaurant Group,...
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 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...
San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. Taps Housing-Finance Veteran to Lead Office-to-Housing Conversion Push
The San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. has recruited longtime Enterprise Community Partners director Geeta Rao as its first vice president of real estate,...
Port of Oakland Commissioners Hand Board Presidency to Stephanie Dominguez Walton as Cargo Volumes Claw Back
The seven-member panel that governs Northern California’s third-busiest container gateway, a 20-mile stretch of Oakland waterfront and a rebounding regional airport has installed...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
Berkadia Taps Veteran Multifamily Executive as Chief Revenue Officer to Unify Mortgage Banking and Investment Sales Platforms
Berkadia has appointed a veteran multifamily capital markets executive as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with unifying and scaling the firm’s...
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...
McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal
By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...
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...
California Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.2% in June, Lowest Since May 2024
California’s jobless rate ground down to its lowest level in more than a year even as employers trimmed payrolls for a second straight...
Swig Company Lands $96MM Invesco Refinancing on 491,000 SQFT Mills Building in San Francisco
The Swig Company has refinanced its historic Mills Building in San Francisco’s Financial District with a $96 million loan from Invesco Real Estate,...
Port of San Francisco Bets $250,000 on Discounted Waterfront Leases to Court Maritime Startups
The Port of San Francisco is deploying a $250,000 leasing-incentive fund and a three-phase build-out plan to convert 7.5 miles of city waterfront...
Wells Fargo Consolidates Into 16,000 SQFT at Downtown Walnut Creek’s 2033 N Main St
Wells Fargo has committed to 15,608 square feet at 2033 N Main St in Downtown Walnut Creek, folding operations into a single office...
Walnut Creek Office Market Turns a Corner as Absorption Goes Positive for First Time Since 2023
The Walnut Creek office market posted its first quarter of positive net absorption in more than two years during the second quarter of...
Mountain View Lands $50MM State Award to Anchor 268-Unit Affirmed Housing Project and Caltrain Upgrades
Mountain View captured the largest affordable housing grant in its history, a $50 million state award that will bankroll a 268-unit complex on...
Electro Coatings Leases 18,000 SQFT at 661 Garcia Ave in Pittsburg
A metal-finishing operator has planted a direct-lease flag in one of the few East Bay industrial submarkets still posting positive momentum this year....
Travelers Insurance Leases 46,000 SQFT in Concord, Anchoring North I-680’s Office Rebound
Travelers Insurance has committed to 46,219 square feet at 1390 Willow Pass Road in Concord, the single largest office lease signed anywhere in...
