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North Natomas Sublet Availability Hits 13.44%, Pushing Submarket’s Total Availability Past 30%

Sublease listings now account for close to half of all available office space in Sacramento's North Natomas submarket, a concentration that sets the...

Santa Clara County Opens $470MM, 207,000 SQFT Psychiatric Hospital With First Public Youth Beds in San Jose

Santa Clara County is opening a 77-bed, 207,000-square-foot psychiatric hospital at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, giving the county its...

Essex Property Trust Buys 474-Unit Lincoln Landing in Hayward for More Than $200MM, Doubling Down on the East Bay

Essex Property Trust closed on a 2022-built, 474-unit East Bay community for more than $200 million, a property research by The Registry identifies...

Old Waterfront Lists 15,000 SQFT 560 Commercial Street as Small San Francisco Office Buildings Trade Above $1,000 Per SQFT

Old Waterfront LLC has listed 560 Commercial Street, a 14,605-square-foot office building from 1907 on the edge of Jackson Square, joining a set...

Raintree Partners Pays $100.8MM for Pacific Urban’s 254-Unit View at Marin in San Rafael

Dana Point-based Raintree Partners paid $100.8 million for View at Marin, Pacific Urban Investors' 254-unit hillside apartment community in north San Rafael, backing...

PIMCO’s $250MM 221 Main Leads San Francisco Office Sales Pipeline as Pricing Stretches From $71 to $1,333 Per SQFT

Six San Francisco office buildings totaling about 707,000 square feet are now pending sale and another 2.1 million square feet is on the...

Tishman Speyer, Bouwinvest Put San Francisco on Short List for New U.S. Office Account With $1.5B in Buying Power

A new separately managed account pairing Tishman Speyer with Dutch pension manager Bouwinvest names San Francisco as one of only three gateway targets...

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Port of Oakland Breaks Ground on Matson Terminal Electrification, Backed by $119MM State Freight Grant

The Port of Oakland has started construction on charging and electrical upgrades that will make the SSA Terminals-operated Matson Terminal its first marine...

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FH One Investments Acquires 106,000 SQFT Walnut Creek Office Building for $22.5MM via Deed-in-Lieu

A Sausalito investor bought a downtown Walnut Creek office building by first buying its loan, paying about 37 percent less than the building...

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Alexandria Lines Up Palo Alto and San Carlos Sales After $256MM in Bay Area Write-Downs as Losses Top $2B

Alexandria Real Estate Equities has moved a cluster of vacant Palo Alto offices, a stalled Palo Alto development site and six San Carlos...

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Rancho Cordova Council Approves Downtown DOVA Entitlements, Advancing KozPure’s $800MM Arena and Hotel District

Rancho Cordova's City Council voted 4-1 to approve four of the five entitlements for KozPure Development's Downtown DOVA, including land transfer and development...

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Hacienda Edges Vacancy Below 18% as Pleasanton Campus Builds Momentum Into Year-End

Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to demonstrate steady leasing performance during the third quarter of 2026, supported by declining vacancy, positive...

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North Natomas Sublet Availability Hits 13.44%, Pushing Submarket’s Total Availability Past 30%

Sublease listings now account for close to half of all available office space in Sacramento's North Natomas submarket, a concentration that sets the...

PIMCO’s $250MM 221 Main Leads San Francisco Office Sales Pipeline as Pricing Stretches From $71 to $1,333 Per SQFT

Six San Francisco office buildings totaling about 707,000 square feet are now pending sale and another 2.1 million square feet is on the...

Silicon Valley Sublease Space Falls to 1.4MM SQFT, Lowest Since 2016, as Class A Premium Widens to $2.10

The cheap seats in Silicon Valley's office market are nearly gone, and landlords of top-tier buildings are pressing the advantage, with sublease availability...

Prologis Flags Bay Area’s Tight Occupancy, 5% to 6% Rent Growth Pace on Q3 Call

San Francisco-based Prologis used its third-quarter 2026 earnings call to single out the Bay Area as one of the country's standout logistics markets,...

Three Markets, Three Funding Stories: Bay Area Life Science VC Holds at $8.3B as San Diego and Seattle Slide

Bay Area life science companies raised $8.3 billion through the third quarter while San Diego and Seattle funding fell by a third and...

San Francisco Down to 35 Office Blocks of 100,000 SQFT as Tech Chases Record Year of Large Deals

San Francisco's supply of contiguous 100,000-square-foot office blocks has dropped to 35, down from a peak of 58 three years ago, while 26...

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Hacienda Edges Vacancy Below 18% as Pleasanton Campus Builds Momentum Into Year-End

Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to demonstrate steady leasing performance during the third quarter of 2026, supported by declining vacancy,...

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T&T Supermarket Sets Nov. 5 Opening for 50,000 SQFT Store at Acadia’s San Francisco City Center, Filling Former Best Buy Box

T&T Supermarket will open its first San Francisco store on Nov. 5 in a roughly 50,000-square-foot third-floor space at Acadia Realty Trust's City...

San Francisco Class B Office Effective Rents Jump 15%, Outpacing Class A as Mid-Tier Space Leads Q3 Absorption

Mid-tier office buildings outran San Francisco's top towers in the third quarter, with Class B effective rents climbing 15 percent year over year...

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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...

Thornberg Warns Bay Area Housing Faces ‘Bust Side’ as Mortgage Rates Climb Past 7%

Speaking at Star One Credit Union's third annual Bay Area Real Estate Forecast in Campbell, Beacon Economics founder Christopher Thornberg argued that an...

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Meridian Commercial’s James Schultz Earns Basin Street Properties’ Q3 Broker of the Quarter Honor

Basin Street Properties names Meridian Commercial’s James Schultz its Q3 2026 Broker of the Quarter for his North Bay leasing work.

Skyline Construction Taps Google and Qualcomm Campus Builder Steve Dunne to Lead Northern California Growth

Employee-owned general contractor Skyline Construction has brought veteran Silicon Valley builder Steve Dunne aboard as senior project executive, adding nearly four decades of...

RCG Ventures Taps Brixton Capital’s Michael McFadden as Western Region Director of Acquisitions

Atlanta-based shopping center investor RCG Ventures has hired Michael McFadden away from Brixton Capital as director of acquisitions for its Western Region, adding...

JLL Names Capital Markets Chief Mark Gibson Its First U.S. Country CEO, Taps Kevin MacKenzie as Successor

JLL has elevated Mark Gibson, the former HFF chief who has run its Americas capital markets business for seven years, into a newly...

HR&A Advisors Adds Former Biden White House Aide David Eichenthal to Sharpen Public Budget Practice

HR&A Advisors has brought on David Eichenthal, a veteran of the Biden White House, the U.S. Treasury and city finance offices from New...

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Salad Days Are Over: Why Protein and Caffeine Are Winning the Restaurant Real Estate Race

By John Cumbelich October 5, 2026 – True Food Kitchen files for bankruptcy. Is anyone shocked by the news that yet another salad...

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Dinked: Have We Hit Peak Pickleball?

The Picklr’s Chapter 11 filing, driven by lease guarantees on roughly 40 franchise locations, may be the first sign that indoor pickleball’s real...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins

Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.

Alexandria Posts $1.54 FFO and $638.5MM Loss as Bay Area Occupancy Runs 12 Points Above Market

Alexandria Real Estate Equities held its 2026 earnings outlook steady and signed its busiest quarter of leasing in nearly two years, but $637.9...

Bedrock Robotics Lands $600MM at $4.1B Valuation, Takes 35,000 SQFT in San Francisco

Bedrock Robotics, the Waymo-alumni startup that retrofits excavators to dig without anyone in the cab, closed a $600 million Series C at a...

SFF Realty Partners Buys PCCP’s 234,000 SQFT 2350 Mission College Blvd. in Santa Clara for $40.5MM

SFF Realty Partners picked up PCCP's 13-story office tower at 2350 Mission College Blvd. in Santa Clara for $40.5 million, pairing it with...

Pimco’s 389,000 SQFT 221 Main Street Goes Pending at Rumored $250MM in San Francisco

Less than three months after Pimco Prime Real Estate put the Docusign-anchored tower at 221 Main St. on the market, Newmark's October tracking...

Silicon Valley Sublease Space Falls to 1.4MM SQFT, Lowest Since 2016, as Class A Premium Widens to $2.10

The cheap seats in Silicon Valley's office market are nearly gone, and landlords of top-tier buildings are pressing the advantage, with sublease availability...

Wistron Closes $119.9MM Purchase of 352,000 SQFT Warm Springs Business Park in Fremont From LINK Logistics

Wistron has completed its roughly $119.9 million acquisition of the 351,633-square-foot Warm Springs Business Park in Fremont from Blackstone's LINK Logistics, and Colliers...

Essex Property Trust Takes Control of 378-Unit Portico in Oakland’s Brooklyn Basin After $156.5MM Debt Workout

Essex Property Trust disclosed that it now owns a 2024-built, 378-unit apartment community in Oakland after liquidating a $64.2 million subordinated loan and...

Kilroy, Norges Bring 785,000 SQFT 303 Second Street to Market in San Francisco

Kilroy Realty and Norges Bank Investment Management have put 303 Second Street, a 784,658-square-foot SoMa office complex that was about 64 percent occupied...