Clarion Partners Puts Meta-Anchored, 410,000 SQFT Gateway 84 Advanced Manufacturing Campus in Newark on the Market
BioMed Realty has hired JLL to sell Gateway 84, a three-building, 2021-vintage manufacturing campus on Newark's Gateway Boulevard where Meta occupies more than...
Lincoln Property, New York Life Pay $37.5MM for 150,000 SQFT Hayward Warehouse
A 1977 Hayward warehouse that PPF Industrial bought for $14.3 million in 2016 has sold for $37.5 million to a Lincoln Property and...
AB 40 Forces New Environmental Review on Trump-Backed Coal Terminal at Former Oakland Army Base as $1B Suit Is Tossed
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 40, requiring a fresh environmental impact report for large coal terminals, just as a Kentucky federal judge threw...
Anthropic Eyes 100,000 SQFT Industrial Building at 2000 Folsom in San Francisco’s Mission District for R&D Lab
If the deal for the former food factory at 2000 Folsom St. closes, Anthropic would join Amazon Robotics, Medra and DoorDash in taking...
IRA Capital Affiliate Buys Rubicon Point’s 29,000 SQFT UCSF-Leased Outpatient Building at 1263 Mission Street for $19.1MM
An affiliate of Irvine-based healthcare investor IRA Capital paid $19.125 million for the fully leased UCSF @ SoMa outpatient building at 1263 Mission...
Academy of Art Moves to Foreclose on Tony Garnicki Affiliate Over $3.6MM Seller Loan at 2300 Stockton in San Francisco
Four months after Academy of Art University sold its former office building at 2300 Stockton Street to an affiliate of investor Tony Garnicki,...
Newsom Signs SB 328, Clearing Brookfield’s Path to 12,272 Homes at Former Concord Naval Weapons Station
A newly signed state law removes the former Concord Naval Weapons Station from the Surplus Land Act's disposition rules and exempts plan-consistent development...
Bang & Olufsen Opens 3,000 SQFT Palo Alto Store at Stanford Shopping Center Amid California Push
The Danish audio maker's new showroom at the Palo Alto mall marks its 13th California outpost and hands Simon Property Group another luxury...
AI Moves From Pitch Deck to Permit Counter as Bay Area Builders Chase Faster Approvals
As national developers such as AvalonBay, JPI and Wan Bridge wire AI into site selection, design and construction, Bay Area builders and city...
Fremont Union High School District Opens 15,000 SQFT Robotics Center at Cupertino High School
Fremont Union High School District has opened a 14,500-square-foot Robotics Center at Cupertino High School, replacing years of makeshift portable classrooms with a...
Palo Alto Agrees to Buy 7-Acre Portion of Cubberley Community Center from School District for $65.5MM
The conditional deal, priced about $450,000 above the top of the city's 2024 appraisal range, would combine ownership of the 35-acre campus ahead...
Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing activity...
AI Moves From Pitch Deck to Permit Counter as Bay Area Builders Chase Faster Approvals
As national developers such as AvalonBay, JPI and Wan Bridge wire AI into site selection, design and construction, Bay Area builders and city...
San Francisco Office Leasing Rises 37% in First Half of 2026 as Engineers Remain Top Recruiting Target
A joint analysis by recruiting platform Juicebox and Newmark Research finds San Francisco office leasing up 37 percent in the first half of...
Oakland, Central Valley Warehouse Costs Top $175 Per Foot as Tariffs Push Industrial Builds Higher
Oakland and the Central Valley now rank among the costliest places in the Americas to build a warehouse, with small-shell pricing above $175...
Savills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
Savills: San Francisco Office Leasing Jumps 77% as Availability Falls to 27%
San Francisco tenants signed 3.9 million square feet of office leases in the third quarter of 2026, pushing year-to-date volume to 12.1 million...
San José Fights for Opportunity Zones 2.0 Tracts as State Backs 15 of 36 City Picks
San José officials lobbied Sacramento and Washington to secure 36 priority census tracts under the newly permanent federal Opportunity Zones 2.0 program, but...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing...
Continue ReadingLincoln Property, New York Life Pay $37.5MM for 150,000 SQFT Hayward Warehouse
A 1977 Hayward warehouse that PPF Industrial bought for $14.3 million in 2016 has sold for $37.5 million to a Lincoln Property and...
Savills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
Physical Intelligence Locks In 81,000 SQFT Sublease at 850 Brannan St., Outgrowing Its Earlier San Francisco Plan
Robotics AI startup Physical Intelligence completed an 80,964-square-foot sublease at 850 Brannan St. in the third quarter, according to CBRE, about a third...
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
Newsom Weighs Bill Licensing the Cash-Advance and Factoring Firms Bankrolling Bay Area Small Businesses
California lawmakers have handed Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would make the state the first in the country to require merchant cash...
Port of Oakland Taps Oakland Native Carl Cade as Chief Real Estate Officer to Lead Waterfront Revitalization
The Port of Oakland has handed control of its real estate portfolio, from Jack London Square to the Oakland Airport Business Park, to...
Hines Hands Reins to Third Generation as Adam Hines Joins Sister Laura Hines-Pierce as Co-CEO
Hines is moving its third generation into full command of the $91 billion global real estate firm, pairing Adam Hines with his sister,...
Newmark Lures Sarah Miller From Cushman & Wakefield to Co-Lead National Seniors Housing Valuation Practice
Newmark has hired veteran appraiser Sarah Miller, MAI, away from Cushman & Wakefield to co-lead its national seniors housing valuation and advisory discipline...
OCMI Sacramento Office Grows with New Staff
New Hires Signify Expansion of OCMI Cost Management in Northern California SACRAMENTO, CA — OCMI is proud to announce the addition of Cheryl...
Architectural Resources Group Names Ariane Fehrenkamp Associate Principal to Grow Design Practice
Architectural Resources Group has hired veteran architect Ariane Fehrenkamp as an associate principal, tasking the two-decade design leader with expanding the San Francisco-based...
McNellis: Real Estate Beyond the Basics
A mortgage broker heard our talk to Menlo College students and wrote back with a sharper point: in commercial real estate, the real...
The Exit for the Rent-Capped Building
Prop 13 keeps him in. Rent control starves him. Prop 19 took away the ending he was counting on. There's a third door,...
The First Footprints in the Snow
AI's hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who's in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to CRE Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
Watch Rents Rise
By John Cumbelich Our firm recently completed a Q2 survey of the region’s 25 flagship Power Centers, in which we reported that occupancy...
Kilroy Pitches Flexible Flower Mart Plan With Up to 3,532 Homes and 600-Foot Towers in Central SoMa
In an informational hearing on Oct. 1, the Planning Commission got a first look at Gensler's design framework for the 6.5-acre Brannan Street...
SupplyBank.org Launches $200MM Oakport Campus on East Oakland Shoreline, Preleasing 160,000 SQFT Nonprofit Office
SupplyBank.org has formally launched its roughly $200 million Oakport campus on utility-owned shoreline land across Interstate 880 from the Oakland Coliseum, pairing a...
BXP Signs On as Consultant, JLL Lands Leasing Assignment for 1.5MM SQFT Fifty at First Tower in San Francisco
The San Francisco Recovery Fund has formally brought BXP aboard as a development, leasing and marketing consultant and named JLL exclusive office leasing...
LS Power Plants $1.59B HVDC Gateway Near Coleman and Ryland as San José Bets on Data Center Load
LS Power Grid California has started building the Skyline terminal, a high-voltage direct current converter station on a listed hazardous-materials parcel near Coleman...
oWow Unit Pivots Stalled 25-Story San Jose Tower to 372 Affordable Apartments in $159.6MM Plan
Oakland-based oWow, through its American Housing Co. subsidiary, has revived a long-stalled high-rise site one block from San Jose State University with a...
Sterling Organization Buys Safeway-Anchored Center in Pleasanton for $79.1MM in Portfolio Deal
A Florida retail investor has added two Bay Area grocery centers and its first Hawaii property to a core fund built around a...
Davis Pays $17M for 65,000 SQFT San Jose R&D Building in Purchase From Office Properties Income Trust
Boston-based Davis paid $17 million for the roughly 65,000-square-foot R&D building at 51 Rio Robles in North San Jose, buying it from an...
Fully Leased 100,000 SQFT 101 Redwood Shores Office Building on the Market in Redwood City
A four-story Class A office building on Redwood City's bayfront, leased in full to software company Zuora and occupied by drugmaker Corcept Therapeutics...
