Pimco Prime Real Estate Lists 383,000 SQFT Office Tower for $250MM in San Francisco
Pimco Prime Real Estate is seeking roughly $653 a square foot for the Docusign-anchored tower, a price that would rank among San Francisco’s...
California Attorney General Rejects Menlo Park’s Case Against 665-Home Willow Park Project
California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office has stepped into the long-running fight over N17's 80 Willow Road development, warning Menlo Park that it...
Alexander’s Mobility Services Extends 102,000 SQFT Warehouse Lease at Terreno’s 3528 Arden Road in Hayward
Alexander's Mobility Services has extended its lease on a roughly 101,805-square-foot freestanding distribution building at 3528 Arden Road in Hayward, keeping the Atlas...
Northern California Hotel Sales Slide 16% to $642MM as San Francisco and Alameda Volumes Tumble
Northern California recorded 68 hotel sales in the first half of 2026, but dollar volume fell 15.7 percent to $641.8 million as steep...
Bay Area Venture Funding Surges to $100B in Q2 2026, Powered by Anthropic’s $65B AI Round
The nine-county Bay Area drew $100.2 billion in venture capital across 861 deals in the second quarter of 2026, with San Francisco alone...
Alexandria Doubles Its Share of Bay Area Leasing as Advanced Technology Tenants Backfill Lab Space
Alexandria Real Estate Equities captured twice its market share of San Francisco Bay Area leasing in the second quarter, its strongest regional showing,...
Lincoln Council Approves Ron Smith’s 165-Lot Windsor Cove, Clears Lewis Group’s 1,205-Unit Village 7B Plan
The Lincoln City Council last week signed off on Ron Smith's 165-lot Windsor Cove subdivision and cleared Lewis Group of Companies to nearly...
AI and Power Demand Drive Silicon Valley Industrial as Tenants Chase Scarce High-Tech Space
Silicon Valley’s industrial market has split into two economies — one defined by artificial intelligence, data centers and an insatiable appetite for power,...
Ripple Renews 124,000 SQFT Full-Building Headquarters at 600 Battery in San Francisco
Cryptocurrency payments firm Ripple has renewed its lease on the entire 600 Battery Street building in San Francisco’s Jackson Square, keeping one of...
$213MM PGIM Refinancing Spans Eight Industrial Buildings, Including 323,000 SQFT Lathrop Warehouse
A 322,560-square-foot warehouse on Shideler Parkway in Lathrop is the lone California asset in an eight-building national portfolio just recapitalized with $213 million...
Fountainhead Buys 44,000 SQFT Union Square Office and Retail Building at 100 Post for $12.35MM in San Francisco
An Alaska-based investor has landed a trophy corner at the seam of Union Square and the North Financial District, paying roughly $281 per...
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...
Northern California Hotel Sales Slide 16% to $642MM as San Francisco and Alameda Volumes Tumble
Northern California recorded 68 hotel sales in the first half of 2026, but dollar volume fell 15.7 percent to $641.8 million as steep...
Bay Area Venture Funding Surges to $100B in Q2 2026, Powered by Anthropic’s $65B AI Round
The nine-county Bay Area drew $100.2 billion in venture capital across 861 deals in the second quarter of 2026, with San Francisco alone...
Alexandria Doubles Its Share of Bay Area Leasing as Advanced Technology Tenants Backfill Lab Space
Alexandria Real Estate Equities captured twice its market share of San Francisco Bay Area leasing in the second quarter, its strongest regional showing,...
Brokers Turn to Autonomous AI Agents to Automate Rent Comp Tracking
Commercial real estate brokers are increasingly handing rote market research to autonomous AI agents that assemble proprietary comp databases and monitor rival properties...
AI and Power Demand Drive Silicon Valley Industrial as Tenants Chase Scarce High-Tech Space
Silicon Valley’s industrial market has split into two economies — one defined by artificial intelligence, data centers and an insatiable appetite for power,...
Kilroy Says San Francisco Demand Tops 10MM SQFT, Highest Since 2019, as Bay Area Recovery Broadens
The real estate investment trust said active tenant demand in San Francisco has topped 10 million square feet for the first time since...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
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,...
Continue ReadingAlexander’s Mobility Services Extends 102,000 SQFT Warehouse Lease at Terreno’s 3528 Arden Road in Hayward
Alexander's Mobility Services has extended its lease on a roughly 101,805-square-foot freestanding distribution building at 3528 Arden Road in Hayward, keeping the Atlas...
Palo Alto Networks Extends 941,000 SQFT Santa Clara Headquarters Campus Through 2040
Palo Alto Networks has locked in its Santa Clara headquarters for another generation, extending leases across its 940,564-square-foot campus through mid-2040 in the...
Nvidia Leases 303,000 SQFT Industrial Building at 5853 Rue Ferrari in South San Jose
The world’s most valuable chipmaker has planted a major new industrial flag in South San Jose, signing the second-largest Silicon Valley industrial lease...
Sunset Development Selects Lennar to Build 255-Home Canopy at Bishop Ranch as Campus Advances 8,000-Home Transformation
27-Acre Office Building Site to Become a Walkable Neighborhood, Construction to Begin in 2027 San Ramon, Calif. (July 6, 2026) – Sunset Development...
DivcoWest Closes on 47.5% of San Francisco’s 101 California Tower in ~$450MM Trophy Office Deal
DivcoWest has completed its purchase of a 47.5 percent stake in 101 California Street, finalizing San Francisco’s largest office transaction in more than...
Bay Area Life Sciences Vacancy Jumps to 26.2% as Pfizer Vacates 164,000 SQFT at Oyster Point and Emeryville Land Sells for Half Its 2019 Price
The San Francisco Bay Area’s life sciences vacancy rate climbed 310 basis points year over year to 26.2 percent as more than 500,000...
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,...
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...
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...
Sand Hill Property Company Sells 40,000 SQFT Whole Foods Site for $45.9MM in Los Gatos
Sand Hill Property Company sells its newly built Los Gatos Whole Foods site for $45.9 million, or about $1,148 per square foot.
Multibeam Doubles Sunnyvale Headquarters to 31,000 SQFT as It Lands $140MM CHIPS Commitment
Chip-equipment maker Multibeam more than doubled its Sunnyvale footprint and staffed up past 75 workers just as it secured a federal letter of...
Kilroy Says San Francisco Demand Tops 10MM SQFT, Highest Since 2019, as Bay Area Recovery Broadens
The real estate investment trust said active tenant demand in San Francisco has topped 10 million square feet for the first time since...
Silicon Valley Office Leasing Roars Back to Post-Pandemic High as Class A Space Tightens
Silicon Valley office leasing has surged to its strongest level since 2019 as AI-driven tenants chase scarce Class A space, brokers say.
Infinera Signs 102,000 SQFT R&D Lease at 6375 San Ignacio Avenue in South San Jose
A San Jose-based optical networking company has anchored the quarter’s Silicon Valley R&D leasing with a major South San Jose commitment, the largest...
Silicon Valley Industrial Hits Cycle-High Leasing as R&D Market Turns the Corner in 2Q26
Silicon Valley’s industrial and research-and-development markets both firmed in the second quarter of 2026 as artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing tenants absorbed large...
Jay Paul Company Lands First Permits for 680-Unit CityView Conversion in Downtown San Jose
Downtown San Jose’s largest office landlord is now building homes where it once planned towers of desks, as Jay Paul Company clears the...
1.2MM SQFT San Francisco Centre & Emporium Hits the Market Again With Ground Lease Extended to 2082 and September Call for Offers
One of downtown San Francisco’s largest and most troubled assets is back on the block, this time with a longer ground lease, lower...
