Illumio Signs 120,000 SQFT Lease at Ellis Partners’ Campus at Scott in Santa Clara
Illumio will move its headquarters to the 460K-square-foot Class A office complex, which is preparing a full-scale renovation following its 2025 acquisition SANTA...
Google Opens 800,000 SQFT Meadow Point Campus in North San Jose
The Alphabet unit cuts the ribbon on its largest San Jose campus, housing 3,000 to 4,000 Google Core employees across six office buildings,...
25-Key Hotel Vinea in Healdsburg Lists for $7.5MM in Supply-Constrained Wine Country Market
The unencumbered boutique property at 178 Dry Creek Road is being marketed at roughly $300,000 per key, well below regional replacement cost estimates...
Community Presbyterian Church Proposes 68-Unit Townhouse Project on West El Pintado in Danville
Community Presbyterian Church’s plan to replace 19 single-family homes with townhomes and ADUs has cleared design review and now heads to the Planning...
74-Unit Ora Apartments Near Lake Merritt in Oakland Listed for Sale After Prime Finance’s $25MM Take-Back
The 2019-vintage building was seized by its lender in December 2024 out of a $41 million 2021 basis under Vaughn Management — and...
Pacifica Host Hotels Pays $47MM for 194-Room Element by Marriott Milpitas
The San Diego-based owner-operator picks up Silicon Valley’s largest new hotel debut of 2022 from developer Dynamic City Capital, takes over operations June...
Mavik Capital Flips 97-Unit University Park Apartments in Berkeley to Market After $25MM Foreclosure Takeback
New York lender’s REO affiliate is testing investor appetite for a value-add student housing play near UC Berkeley just months after wresting the...
Schools of the Sacred Heart Unveils Design for 66,000 SQFT Wellness Center on Geary Boulevard
TEF Design’s four-story aquatics, athletics and education facility advances a long-planned bet by one of San Francisco’s oldest independent schools to anchor wellness...
Innovatus Puts Entitled 4040 Civic Center Under Contract After Winning 238-Unit Approval in San Rafael
The five-story Marin County office building, marketed by Newmark, heads toward a sale just weeks after the Planning Commission cleared its conversion to...
Core Capital and Gaw Capital File Plans to Convert 162-Room Oakland Courtyard by Marriott Into 64-Unit Apartment Building
Joint venture invokes SB 330 to streamline approvals for adaptive reuse of five-story Downtown Oakland hotel acquired for $10.6 million in 2024 A...
Evans Property Co. Refines Plans to Revive Berkeley’s Fire-Damaged Chandler Building With 63 Apartments
A decade after flames gutted one of the most prominent corner buildings in Berkeley’s Southside, the project to bring it back to life...
Leasing Activity Accelerates at Hacienda in Q1 2026
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the stabilization that began in late 2025....
Mavik Capital Flips 97-Unit University Park Apartments in Berkeley to Market After $25MM Foreclosure Takeback
New York lender’s REO affiliate is testing investor appetite for a value-add student housing play near UC Berkeley just months after wresting the...
Schools of the Sacred Heart Unveils Design for 66,000 SQFT Wellness Center on Geary Boulevard
TEF Design’s four-story aquatics, athletics and education facility advances a long-planned bet by one of San Francisco’s oldest independent schools to anchor wellness...
Innovatus Puts Entitled 4040 Civic Center Under Contract After Winning 238-Unit Approval in San Rafael
The five-story Marin County office building, marketed by Newmark, heads toward a sale just weeks after the Planning Commission cleared its conversion to...
Menlo Land & Capital Buys 124,700 SQFT Lincoln Court in Campbell for $24.6MM in Campbell
Roger Fields’ Palo Alto firm picks up a Pacific Oak-owned office building at $197 per square foot through a lender-facilitated process that drew...
San Jose Bets on Visitors to Plug $50MM Budget Hole With June Hotel Tax Vote
Measure A would push the transient occupancy tax to 12 percent, generating $10 million annually as the city weighs deep cuts to police...
Sacramento Greenlights Study to Expand Land Park Zoo by 5.8 Acres, a 41% Footprint Jump
The non-binding MOU launches a five-month sprint to determine whether the century-old institution can stay put, or whether Sacramento risks losing one of...
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Silicon Valley Commercial Real Estate Market Expected to Thrive in 2026 and Beyond
By Scott Pritchett, CPM®, President Commercial Operations at Woodmont Real Estate Services The vastly improved commercial real estate market from the post-pandemic...
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Illumio Signs 120,000 SQFT Lease at Ellis Partners’ Campus at Scott in Santa Clara
Illumio will move its headquarters to the 460K-square-foot Class A office complex, which is preparing a full-scale renovation following its 2025 acquisition SANTA...
Colliers Secures Leasing Assignment of Kennedy Wilson’s 607,000 SQFT 601 City Center Office Tower in Oakland
601 City Center stands as the East Bay’s largest and newest Class A office tower. Oakland, California 05/07/2026 – Colliers is pleased to...
Meta Pulls the Plug on 1.6MM SQFT Willow Village in Menlo Park, Halting Silicon Valley’s Most Ambitious Corporate Campus
The 59-acre Menlo Park mega-project, first envisioned a decade ago to house 7,000 employees, joins a growing list of casualties as the tech...
Bland and Paraform Lead AI Office Leasing Totaling 69,000 SQFT at Jamestown’s Properties in San Francisco
—— Deals Anchor New Wave of AI & Tech Leasing Activity, Pushing Jamestown’s Northern Waterfront Portfolio Past 134,000 Square Feet of AI Office...
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...
DRA Advisors, Blue Rise Ventures List 636,000 SQFT Fremont and Milpitas Industrial Portfolio Along 880 Corridor
The eight-building package is 88 percent leased with in-place rents 25 percent below market and sits amid concentrated institutional ownership from Prologis, Blackstone,...
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...
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...
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)...
Academy of Art Sells 43,400 SQFT 2300 Stockton for $18.3MM in San Francisco, Clearing Way for 70-Unit Conversion
The Russian Hill restaurateur’s affiliate paid roughly 12 percent above the $16.4 million asking price for a 43,400-square-foot Fisherman’s Wharf office building, the...
Bohannon-Built Belmont Apartment Complex Trades for $20.5MM as Schilling Family Resets Tax Position
Levin Johnston brokers $525,641-per-unit sale of 39-unit El Dorado Apartments to the Flaherty family in a 1031 exchange, capitalizing on the Mid-Peninsula’s deepening...
Menlo Land & Capital Buys 124,700 SQFT Lincoln Court in Campbell for $24.6MM in Campbell
Roger Fields’ Palo Alto firm picks up a Pacific Oak-owned office building at $197 per square foot through a lender-facilitated process that drew...
San Jose Bets on Visitors to Plug $50MM Budget Hole With June Hotel Tax Vote
Measure A would push the transient occupancy tax to 12 percent, generating $10 million annually as the city weighs deep cuts to police...
Sacramento Greenlights Study to Expand Land Park Zoo by 5.8 Acres, a 41% Footprint Jump
The non-binding MOU launches a five-month sprint to determine whether the century-old institution can stay put, or whether Sacramento risks losing one of...
Copart Billionaire Reopens Calistoga’s Clos Pegase as Centerpiece of $85MM Napa-Sonoma Winery Play
After acquiring five wineries out of Vintage Wine Estates’ bankruptcy, Jay Adair has poured millions more into a yearlong restoration betting on hospitality...
Contra Costa’s Measure A Tees Up a 25-Year Lock on 65% of County Land, Splitting Conservationists From Housing Bloc
Voters on June 2 will decide whether to extend the urban limit line through 2051, in a fight that pits one of California’s...
Mountain View Greenlights 140-Unit Castro Commons After $2MM Parkland Settlement
A decade-long entitlement push at the city’s downtown gateway clears its final hurdle in a 4-2 vote, with GPR Ventures securing a discounted...
