Cognition Subleases 180,000 SQFT at 333 Brannan From Cruise, Expanding San Francisco Footprint Sevenfold
AI coding startup Cognition has agreed to sublease the 180,000-square-foot building at 333 Brannan Street from collapsed robotaxi operator Cruise, backfilling one of...
SummerHill Apartment Communities Secures $124MM From Fifth Third, CB&T and TruAmerica to Build 251-Unit San Carlos Apartment Project
SHAC has assembled a $123.5 million capital stack to break ground on its largest housing project on the Peninsula, marking TruAmerica Multifamily's debut...
UCSF Advances 525,000 SQFT Mission Bay Education Center and Dental Clinics Project
The University of California, San Francisco has selected a progressive design-build team to deliver a new education center and dental clinics inside the...
AI Boom Pulls Dollars From Home Improvement as Building Products Face a Drawn-Out Recovery
Speaking to building products executives, John Burns Research and Consulting principal Nishu Sood made the case for a slow, uneven recovery stretching into...
California’s $17.40 Minimum Wage Arrives in 2027 as Bay Area Floors Already Sit Higher
California’s statewide wage floor will climb to a nation-leading $17.40 an hour in 2027, but for Bay Area property owners and their tenants,...
NorthPoint Development Pays $87.5MM for 534,550 SQFT Benicia Industrial Portfolio
CBRE brokered the sale of the fully leased, 19-tenant portfolio at roughly $164 a square foot, betting on a small-bay, dock-high niche the...
Box Extends Redwood City HQ Lease Through 2040 at Kilroy’s Crossing/900, Trimming to 243,000 SQFT in $283MM Deal
Box has recommitted to downtown Redwood City through 2040, extending its headquarters lease at Kilroy Realty's Crossing/900 campus even as the software company...
Gilbane Development and CBRE Investment Management Open 480-Bed Pique Student Housing Community Near UC Berkeley
Gilbane Development has opened Pique, a purpose-built student housing community a few blocks from the University of California, Berkeley campus, adding more than...
Marq Logistics Lists 55,000 SQFT Warehouse at Pinole Point Business Park in Richmond
Marq Logistics has tapped Colliers to market a 54,896-square-foot warehouse at 2100 Atlas Road in Richmond, a large-block industrial offering that lands in...
Port of Oakland Holds Laden Cargo Flat Through July as Empty Boxes Drag Total Volume Lower
The Port of Oakland kept its loaded cargo volumes nearly level through the first seven months of 2026 and pushed exports slightly ahead...
Nebius Leases 43,000 SQFT at 274 Brannan St., Signing Its First Direct San Francisco Office Lease
Amsterdam-based AI cloud company Nebius has signed its first direct San Francisco office lease, taking the top two floors of Harvest Properties' 274...
Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the month...
AI Boom Pulls Dollars From Home Improvement as Building Products Face a Drawn-Out Recovery
Speaking to building products executives, John Burns Research and Consulting principal Nishu Sood made the case for a slow, uneven recovery stretching into...
California’s $17.40 Minimum Wage Arrives in 2027 as Bay Area Floors Already Sit Higher
California’s statewide wage floor will climb to a nation-leading $17.40 an hour in 2027, but for Bay Area property owners and their tenants,...
Port of Oakland Holds Laden Cargo Flat Through July as Empty Boxes Drag Total Volume Lower
The Port of Oakland kept its loaded cargo volumes nearly level through the first seven months of 2026 and pushed exports slightly ahead...
Construction Materials Prices Flat in July, But Lumber and Steel Signal More Increases Ahead
Construction input prices barely moved in July as a temporary drop in fuel costs offset continued gains in lumber and steel, leaving materials...
Bay Area Holds California’s Lowest Jobless Rates as Statewide Unemployment Dips to 5.1% in July
San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties posted among California's lowest unemployment rates in July even as office-using sectors across the state...
San Jose Advances General Plan Housing Overhaul, Defers Density Quadrupling to 2027
San Jose's City Council endorsed the broad framework of a sweeping General Plan housing overhaul on Aug. 18 but declined to lock in...
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Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the...
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Cognition Subleases 180,000 SQFT at 333 Brannan From Cruise, Expanding San Francisco Footprint Sevenfold
AI coding startup Cognition has agreed to sublease the 180,000-square-foot building at 333 Brannan Street from collapsed robotaxi operator Cruise, backfilling one of...
Revolution Medicines Bets 700,000 SQFT on Farallon’s Former Google Campus in Redwood City
Revolution Medicines, the fast-growing developer racing toward its first commercial cancer drug, is in advanced talks for roughly 700,000 square feet at Pacific...
Bay Area AI and Robotics Funding Tops $280B in 2026 as Sector Drives Record Silicon Valley Leasing
Bay Area artificial intelligence and robotics companies raised more than $280 billion through the first half of 2026, and that capital is spilling...
Nevada PERS Nears $62.2MM Acquisition of 62,500 SQFT 1400 Veterans Medical Office Building in Redwood City
A Nevada public pension fund is closing on a Peninsula medical office building as part of an all-cash push to double its real...
Bay Area Office Recovery Broadens as Vacancy Falls to 20% and Sublease Space Hits Six-Year Low
Colliers’ Q2 2026 report found Bay Area office vacancy fell to 20 percent and sublease space hit its lowest level since early 2020,...
Google Seeks 250MW for San Jose Chip R&D Hub, a Power Load Rivaling an Entire Bay Area County
Google's push to power a sprawling chip-testing complex in North San Jose has collided with California's fight over who foots the bill for...
Coblentz Expands Construction and Litigation Capabilities with the Arrival of New Partner Raymond Buddie
San Francisco-based law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP is pleased to welcome Raymond Buddie to the firm’s partnership. Ray brings more...
Mohr Partners Taps East Bay Veteran Kam Schroeder as First President of Brokerage
Mohr Partners has recruited longtime East Bay broker Kam Schroeder to fill a newly created President of Brokerage post, betting on a 20-year...
Kilroy Realty CFO Jeffrey Kuehling Exits as Eliott Trencher Takes Interim Finance Helm
Kilroy Realty Corporation said Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Kuehling is departing the Los Angeles-based office and life science REIT effective immediately, handing interim...
Redwood City Elevates Two Veteran Insiders to Lead Public Works and Sustainability Push
Redwood City has handed the keys to its sprawling public works operation to two longtime insiders, promoting Adrian Lee to services director and...
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,...
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...
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)...
Carmel Partners Buys 263-Unit Silver Apartments in San Jose for $122MM
The $465,000-per-unit price lands near the middle of a run of recent Santa Clara County apartment trades, arriving as Essex’s own leadership points...
SummerHill Advances Formal Plans for 278-Unit Apartment and Townhome Redevelopment of San Mateo’s Shuttered Hillsdale Inn
SummerHill Apartment Communities has taken its long-delayed redevelopment of San Mateo's shuttered Hillsdale Inn a step further, filing formal entitlement plans for 278...
Construction Materials Prices Flat in July, But Lumber and Steel Signal More Increases Ahead
Construction input prices barely moved in July as a temporary drop in fuel costs offset continued gains in lumber and steel, leaving materials...
Autonomous Trucking Firm PlusAI Extends 36,000 SQFT Fremont Lease at 41300 Boyce Road
PlusAI has extended its roughly 36,000-square-foot lease at 41300 Boyce Road in Fremont, keeping the self-driving trucking developer rooted in the East Bay...
Bay Area Holds California’s Lowest Jobless Rates as Statewide Unemployment Dips to 5.1% in July
San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties posted among California's lowest unemployment rates in July even as office-using sectors across the state...
$147.5MM Refinancing Secured for 221,800 SQFT Google-Leased 750 Moffett in Mountain View
CBRE arranged $147.5 million in non-recourse debt for the Mountain View office tower, pairing modest senior financing from UMB Bank with a much...
Google Puts 129,945 SQFT of San Jose’s Brokaw Campus on the Sublease Market
CBRE is marketing the fully built-out, four-story building as a plug-and-play sublease opportunity inside Peery Arrillaga’s Brokaw Campus, a North San Jose office...
San Jose Advances General Plan Housing Overhaul, Defers Density Quadrupling to 2027
San Jose's City Council endorsed the broad framework of a sweeping General Plan housing overhaul on Aug. 18 but declined to lock in...