Cooley LLP Signs 120,000 SQFT Lease at Planned 1900 Broadway Tower in Downtown Redwood City
The Silicon Valley law firm’s anchor commitment to the seven-story mixed-use project by Lane Partners and Kilroy Realty could unlock construction financing for...
Solace Leases Entire 71,330 SQFT Office Building at 610 Walnut Street in Downtown Redwood City
The Ottawa-based enterprise middleware company takes the full six-story Class A development, adding to a wave of leasing activity transforming Redwood City’s downtown...
NVIDIA Executive’s Estimated $24.6MM Gift Establishes Applied AI Center at Santa Clara University
The Cunningham Shoquist Center for Applied AI and Human Potential becomes the university’s fourth Center of Distinction, funded by a gift from NVIDIA’s...
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East West Bank Schedules May 7 Foreclosure Auction for HP Investors’ 206,000-SQFT Edgewater Park Plaza Office Complex Near Oakland Airport
The San Diego-based investor purchased the two-building office park for $35.7 million in 2022, and now faces more than $21 million in unpaid...
Silicon Valley’s Three Power Cities Are Betting Big on AI, Fee Relief, and a Tripled Power Grid
At a CREW Silicon Valley luncheon, deputy city managers from Santa Clara, San Jose, and Sunnyvale laid out an aggressive playbook: defer fees,...
El Camino Real Plan Revision Advances Lower Density, Mixed-Use Vision Across Key Corridor in Santa Clara
City-led update moves forward with reduced heights and residential intensity ahead of April and May 2026 decisions In Santa Clara, city officials are...
Lender Takes Back Two Uptown Oakland Apartment Buildings Totaling 175 Units After $52.3MM in Loan Defaults
Telegraph Arts and The Moran were acquired by CWCapital affiliates at prices roughly half their assessed values, adding to a growing list of...
Signature Development Advances 422-Unit Walnut Creek Townhomes After Appeals Rejected
The project will replace a 450,000 SQFT office campus with new housing as construction moves closer to a 2030 build-out A long-running effort...
Golden Pacific Floats 24-Unit Infill Behind Castro Shophouses on Market Street in San Francisco
A seven-story rear addition would replace the backyard of five attached two-story shophouses at 2317-2335 Market Street, delivering 24 apartments a block from...
Grubb Properties Advances 198,700 SQFT, 167-Unit Apartment Project in Palo Alto
Planning Commission review highlights parking concerns and corridor planning as eight-story proposal moves forward Housing proposals along Palo Alto’s San Antonio corridor continue...
Occupancy Rises at Hacienda as Diverse Industries Expand in Tri-Valley
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, recorded a modest increase in total occupancy to 6,581,927 square feet in March, up...
NVIDIA Executive’s Estimated $24.6MM Gift Establishes Applied AI Center at Santa Clara University
The Cunningham Shoquist Center for Applied AI and Human Potential becomes the university’s fourth Center of Distinction, funded by a gift from NVIDIA’s...
Silicon Valley’s Three Power Cities Are Betting Big on AI, Fee Relief, and a Tripled Power Grid
At a CREW Silicon Valley luncheon, deputy city managers from Santa Clara, San Jose, and Sunnyvale laid out an aggressive playbook: defer fees,...
San Francisco Advisory Committee Recommends Slashing Inclusionary Housing Rate to 5% as Construction Stalls
The proposed two-thirds reduction from the current 15 percent requirement aims to revive a frozen development pipeline, but the Board of Supervisors must...
29 Tenants Seeking 100,000 SQFT or More as Silicon Valley Office Demand Reaches 8.6MM SQFT Amid AI-Fueled Recovery
Large-block requirements and a six-quarter vacancy decline are reshaping competitive dynamics across the region’s office market, with AI and technology firms accounting for...
North American Life Sciences Sector Grapples With Supply Glut as 55% of Recent Lab Deliveries Sit Vacant
A pandemic-era construction wave has collided with cooling demand, leaving nearly 60 million square feet of new lab space struggling to find tenants...
Sacramento’s Labor Market Is Losing Ground Where It Can Least Afford To — and Healthcare Can Only Do So Much to Make Up the Difference
The state capital posts a 5.2 percent unemployment rate for Sacramento County and a negative year-over payroll trend for the broader MSA, with...
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Prometheus Real Estate Group Secures $145MM Refinance of 360,000 SQFT The Towers at Cupertino City Center
CUPERTINO, Calif. (March 16, 2026) — Northmarq’s San Francisco Debt + Equity team led by Nathan Prouty, Andrew Slaton and John Holt has...
San Francisco Office Market Posts Record 1.8MM SQFT of Net Absorption in Q1 2026 as AI Demand Surges
AI companies account for 60 percent of leasing activity and 38 percent of total tenant demand, pushing vacancy down two percentage points and...
Essex Property Trust Doubles Down on Northern California With $830MM Acquisition Spree as AI-Fueled Demand Drives Rent Growth
The apartment REIT deployed more capital into the Bay Area than any other region in 2025, acquiring seven communities as Northern California posted...
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...
Kilroy Realty Corporation Announces Board Refreshment
LOS ANGELES–Kilroy Realty Corporation (NYSE: KRC) (“Kilroy” or the “Company”) today announced leadership changes on the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) and...
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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...
An Approval is Not a Building Permit
Why the hand-wringing over Google’s empty San Jose acreage misses the point entirely. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bounded by Sea, Strangled by Trusts
Every acre we preserve is an acre we can’t build on—and the housing math is catching up By Billy the Broker (I just...
Strada in Talks to Acquire Samsara’s 133,427 SQFT San Francisco HQ at 1 De Haro for +$100MM
The potential purchase of the cross-laminated timber building at 1 De Haro St. from SKS Partners would help establish pricing for stabilized office...
World Market Renews 112,000 SQFT Headquarters Lease at Alameda’s Research Park at Marina Village
The specialty retailer’s recommitment keeps roughly 500 employees at the East Bay campus, where Alameda’s 7.3 percent office vacancy rate dramatically outperforms the...
PODS Enterprises Leases 104,400 SQFT Industrial Property in San Jose
San Jose – April 13, 2026 – CBRE arranged a 104,400-square-foot lease to PODS Enterprises, LLC at 1959 Monterey Road in San Jose....
Glean Leases 62,000 SQFT From Heartflow in Mountain View Office Deal
The enterprise AI firm signs a five-year sublease near downtown as it scales operations and workforce Artificial intelligence firms continue to translate rapid...
El Camino Health Acquires 32,000 SQFT Sunnyvale Office Property From Eternal Education Development for $19.3MM
The purchase at 595 Lawrence Expressway marks the healthcare system’s latest move to expand its outpatient network across Silicon Valley Healthcare providers across...
Mission Housing, MEDA Secure $77.9MM in Construction Financing for 136-Unit Affordable Complex San Francisco
Returning Partner to Mission Housing Provides $78M in Construction Financing and Tax Credit Equity for 136-Unit Permanent Supportive Housing Development at 16th and...
San Ramon City Council Votes to Deny Appeal and Approve 2,510-Unit Orchards Master Plan on Former Chevron Park Campus
The 92-acre redevelopment by Sunset Development would transform 1.3 million square feet of vacant office space into a 20-year mixed-use community with housing,...
MongoDB Signs 23,000 SQFT Lease at 490 California Avenue in Palo Alto
Prince Street Partners and Premia Capital land tech tenant as part of California Avenue repositioning effort MongoDB, the New York-based company behind a...
