Mindspace Leases 54,000 SQFT at Transamerica Complex for West Coast Flagship in San Francisco
Global flexible-workspace operator Mindspace has committed to 54,000 square feet at the Transamerica complex, nearly tripling its San Francisco footprint and betting on...
Seavest Healthcare Properties Acquires 64,000 SQFT Folsom Office Building for $25.3MM
Seavest Healthcare Properties, a national medical-office investor, paid $25.3 million for the 64,080-square-foot office building at 80 Iron Point Circle in Folsom, a...
City of Berkeley Approves 359-Unit Shattuck Avenue Project After Affordable Housing Fee Debate
A vacant former car dealership site on Shattuck Avenue clears its final hurdle toward 359 apartments and 38 income-restricted units. Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustments...
Hippocratic AI Signs 31,000 SQFT Lease at Kilroy Realty’s 4300 Bohannon Drive in Menlo Park
Healthcare artificial intelligence company Hippocratic AI has committed to 30,857 square feet at Kilroy Realty’s 4300 Bohannon Drive in Menlo Park, one of...
248-Unit Maroa Park Apartments in Fresno Trades for $44MM
A 40-year-old Fresno apartment community just changed hands for the first time — and it’s part of a much bigger Central Valley portfolio...
Marin County Clears $41MM in Bonds for Eden Housing’s 115-Unit Half of Oak Hill Apartments in San Quentin
The Marin County Board of Supervisors has authorized up to $41 million in bonds for Eden Housing’s 115-unit affordable component of Oak Hill...
Discovery Homes Subleases 20,000 SQFT of Industrial Space at 5060 Forni Dr in Concord
Homebuilder Discovery Homes takes 19,528 square feet of sublease space at 5060 Forni Dr as Concord industrial vacancy hits a cycle high.
Luma AI Subleases 25,000 SQFT from Moloco at 601 Marshall Street in Downtown Redwood City
Generative artificial intelligence company Luma AI has picked up 25,450 square feet of sublease space from ad-tech firm Moloco at 601 Marshall Street...
San Francisco’s Record $16.9B Budget Rests on Commercial Real Estate’s Fragile Rebound
San Francisco’s largest-ever budget quietly wagers its balance on a commercial property recovery that is gathering speed but remains far from complete, tying...
World Cup Lifts Downtown San Jose Hotel RevPAR 42% as 1MM Visitors Test City’s District Bet
San Jose says six weeks of World Cup soccer drew one million visitors to its downtown and pushed hotel revenue per available room...
Wells Fargo Sees Rates Higher for Longer as AI Data Centers Anchor Commercial Construction
Wells Fargo's latest U.S. outlook warns that stubborn inflation and a more hawkish Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs elevated into 2027, sustaining...
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy, positive...
San Francisco’s Record $16.9B Budget Rests on Commercial Real Estate’s Fragile Rebound
San Francisco’s largest-ever budget quietly wagers its balance on a commercial property recovery that is gathering speed but remains far from complete, tying...
World Cup Lifts Downtown San Jose Hotel RevPAR 42% as 1MM Visitors Test City’s District Bet
San Jose says six weeks of World Cup soccer drew one million visitors to its downtown and pushed hotel revenue per available room...
Wells Fargo Sees Rates Higher for Longer as AI Data Centers Anchor Commercial Construction
Wells Fargo's latest U.S. outlook warns that stubborn inflation and a more hawkish Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs elevated into 2027, sustaining...
Contra Costa Pension Sets $375MM Two-Year Real Estate Pacing Plan, Weighs Co-Investment Push
The Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association has committed to deploying $375 million into real estate across 2026 and 2027, front-loading the spend...
CEQA Overhaul Measure Lands 73% Support in New PPIC Poll, Handing California Developers an Early Tailwind
A new statewide survey shows commanding, cross-partisan support for a November ballot measure that would impose hard deadlines on California’s landmark environmental review...
Prologis Data Center Starts Reach $2.1 Billion as Power Pipeline Climbs to 5.8 Gigawatts
Prologis is rapidly scaling two businesses born from its logistics platform — data centers and energy — with data center development already exceeding...
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Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy,...
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Mindspace Leases 54,000 SQFT at Transamerica Complex for West Coast Flagship in San Francisco
Global flexible-workspace operator Mindspace has committed to 54,000 square feet at the Transamerica complex, nearly tripling its San Francisco footprint and betting on...
Google Renews 2.1 Million SQFT Across Moffett Place and Moffett Gateway in Sunnyvale
A reversal from Google’s 2023 sublease push, the renewal lands as Silicon Valley vacancy hits a Bay Area low and Amazon, OpenAI and...
Amazon Leases Entire 317,000 SQFT Moffett Towers Building in Sunnyvale, Backfilling a Google Exit
Amazon has committed to the full 317,000-square-foot tower at 1000 Enterprise Way in Jay Paul Co.’s Moffett Towers campus, absorbing space Google spent...
Marin County Community Development Agency Issues Final Building Permit for 125-Unit Marinwood Apartments in San Rafael
Construction to begin on 125-unit affordable housing community Marin County, CA — An affordable housing development in unincorporated Marin has reached a significant...
GM Lands Nearly 340,000 SQFT Palo Alto Campus at Stanford Research Park, Picking Broadcom Site Over Sunnyvale
General Motors has signed a lease for nearly 340,000 square feet at the former Broadcom campus in Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park, ending...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits 6.1MM SQFT in H1 2026, Best First Half Since 2000 as Vacancy Slides to 30.1%
San Francisco’s office market has strung together its strongest first-half leasing performance in a quarter century, with AI-driven demand pulling vacancy and sublease...
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,...
Port of Oakland Commissioners Hand Board Presidency to Stephanie Dominguez Walton as Cargo Volumes Claw Back
The seven-member panel that governs Northern California’s third-busiest container gateway, a 20-mile stretch of Oakland waterfront and a rebounding regional airport has installed...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
Berkadia Taps Veteran Multifamily Executive as Chief Revenue Officer to Unify Mortgage Banking and Investment Sales Platforms
Berkadia has appointed a veteran multifamily capital markets executive as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with unifying and scaling the firm’s...
Suffolk Taps Armond Balaian to Scale Work and Expand New Office in Silicon Valley
Strategic hire strengthens Suffolk’s local leadership as infrastructure needs accelerate across Silicon Valley SAN FRANCISCO – Suffolk, one of the most innovative and...
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)...
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...
Napa Council Approves 94-Room Hotel at Historic Franklin Station Post Office
Eight years after an earthquake and a first failed entitlement, Napa’s historic post office finally has a green light to become a hotel....
Amazon’s 317,000 SQFT Moffett Towers Lease Steadies Jay Paul’s $770MM Sunnyvale Loan After Google Exit
Amazon’s commitment to fully occupy one of the three towers securing Jay Paul Company’s $770 million Moffett Towers mortgage removes the single largest...
Contra Costa Pension Sets $375MM Two-Year Real Estate Pacing Plan, Weighs Co-Investment Push
The Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association has committed to deploying $375 million into real estate across 2026 and 2027, front-loading the spend...
Amazon Reported as Tenant of CapRock’s 1,271,000 SQFT Central Point III Building in Visalia
CapRock Partners has fully leased the first building at its Central Point III development in Visalia to an unnamed global corporate occupier, a...
CEQA Overhaul Measure Lands 73% Support in New PPIC Poll, Handing California Developers an Early Tailwind
A new statewide survey shows commanding, cross-partisan support for a November ballot measure that would impose hard deadlines on California’s landmark environmental review...
ArtHaus Partners and Integrity Housing Acquire 368-Unit Creek at 2645 in Sacramento for $76MM, Convert Majority to Workforce Housing
ArtHaus Partners and Integrity Housing have closed on the $76.1 million purchase of a 368-unit South Natomas apartment community and will convert roughly...
Mecah Ventures Advances 39,000 SQFT Parallel on Claremont Office Project in Downtown San Mateo
Developer Mecah Ventures is pushing ahead with Parallel on Claremont, a 38,812-square-foot speculative office project in Downtown San Mateo that accounts for more...
Matic Robotics Secures 34,000 SQFT at Bohannon’s 1020 Marsh Road in Menlo Park’s 101 Corridor
Home-robotics startup Matic Robotics has leased 34,350 square feet at 1020 Marsh Road in Menlo Park, a deal Colliers cited as evidence that...
