Diocese of Monterey Launches Six-Month Study to Chart Future of Shuttered Notre Dame Campus in Salinas
The Diocese of Monterey has retained an outside consultant to run a six-month study into the long-term future of the former Notre Dame...
Transnational Management Buys $22.75MM Stake in Gilroy Crossing From Farallon
Transnational Management pays $22.75 million for more of Gilroy Crossing as Farallon Capital continues exiting the shopping center piece by piece.
Swift Veteran Jack Waldsmith Launches Ramsay Land Company to Develop For-Sale Housing on the Peninsula
Jack Waldsmith, who spent nearly seven years rising to director of investments at San Francisco's Swift Real Estate Partners, has launched his own...
Lawsuit Challenges Marin County’s Approval of North Coast’s 337-Unit Seminary Redevelopment in Strawberry
A neighborhood group has sued Marin County and developer North Coast Land Holdings over the June approval of a 337-unit redevelopment of the...
Housing Groups Sue San Francisco and State to Void 1,900-Parcel Industrial Carve-Out From SB 79
Three pro-housing legal organizations have asked a San Francisco judge to void the city's Senate Bill 79 implementation ordinance, arguing that the roughly...
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...
BillionToOne Expands at Union City Labs with 63,000 SQFT Lease in Quarter’s Third-Largest Life Science Deal
BillionToOne, the billion-dollar molecular diagnostics company behind the UNITY prenatal screen and Northstar liquid biopsy tests, has deepened its Union City presence with...
Alamar Biosciences Leases 65,000 SQFT Fremont Building in Quarter’s Second-Largest Life Science Deal
Alamar Biosciences, the Fremont-based precision proteomics company behind the NULISA platform, has committed to a 65,069-square-foot freestanding building at 3500 West Warren Avenue,...
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...
T2 Hospitality Secures $105MM Loan to Refinance 350-Key Sunnyvale Marriott Campus
EOS Hospitality Credit Partners’ second-ever loan replaces the construction-era bridge debt behind T2 Hospitality’s award-winning Sunnyvale hotel campus, betting on Moffett Park’s tech-driven...
Emerald Fund, SDG File Permits to Convert 150 Hayes Street Into 104 Apartments in San Francisco
Emerald Fund and SDG have filed building permits to convert a long-vacant 1968 office block a block from City Hall into 104 apartments,...
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...
Diocese of Monterey Launches Six-Month Study to Chart Future of Shuttered Notre Dame Campus in Salinas
The Diocese of Monterey has retained an outside consultant to run a six-month study into the long-term future of the former Notre Dame...
Housing Groups Sue San Francisco and State to Void 1,900-Parcel Industrial Carve-Out From SB 79
Three pro-housing legal organizations have asked a San Francisco judge to void the city's Senate Bill 79 implementation ordinance, arguing that the roughly...
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...
TruAmerica’s Bob Hart Sees ‘Tremendous Comeback’ in San Francisco Bay Area Apartments
Speaking on CBRE's The Weekly Take podcast, TruAmerica Multifamily founder Bob Hart singled out the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the...
AI Now Fills 10% of San Francisco Office Supply as Bay Area Job Postings Jump 45%
JLL research lead Alexander Quinn says Bay Area office-job demand and San Francisco AI leasing are both climbing sharply, cutting against fears that...
San Jose Drafts Uniform Data Center Standards With Nine Large-Energy Projects Under Review
San Jose has launched a formal process to write uniform development standards for data centers and other large energy-use projects, an emerging asset...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
When Culture and Strategy Integrate to Become Your Brand and Corporate Identity
By Jeff Bosshard, CPM®, President of Multifamily Operations, Woodmont Real Estate Services It would be convenient for me to start this article...
Continue ReadingBillionToOne Expands at Union City Labs with 63,000 SQFT Lease in Quarter’s Third-Largest Life Science Deal
BillionToOne, the billion-dollar molecular diagnostics company behind the UNITY prenatal screen and Northstar liquid biopsy tests, has deepened its Union City presence with...
Bezos’ Project Prometheus Signs 100,000 SQFT Manufacturing Lease in West Oakland
Jeff Bezos’ stealth AI startup has landed in West Oakland just as East Bay industrial landlords report renewed demand from the exact category...
MiTAC Locks Up All Six Buildings at Fremont’s 473,000 SQFT Campus at Bayside
A server-manufacturing unit of Taiwan's MiTAC Holdings Corp. has committed to the final three buildings at Fremont's Campus at Bayside, taking control of...
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...
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...
Clint Reilly, Political Operative Turned $400MM San Francisco Property Owner, Dies at 79
Clint Reilly, who parlayed a career as one of California’s most influential campaign strategists into a nine-figure San Francisco real estate and media...
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,...
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...
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)...
University of the Pacific Opens 386-Bed Southwest Hall in Stockton, Financed Through $120MM Bond Package
University of the Pacific has replaced a century-old Stockton dormitory with a 386-bed residence hall financed on its own balance sheet through tax-exempt...
St. Vincent de Paul School Completes Elevated Sport Court and Seismic Overhaul at Its Cow Hollow Campus in San Francisco
A decades-old K–8 campus in San Francisco's Cow Hollow has emerged from a multi-building construction program that stacked a new outdoor sport court...
SB 79 Filing Proposes 98-Unit, Seven-Story Apartment Complex at 2181 Park Boulevard in Palo Alto
A newly filed preliminary application would clear three aging office buildings on Palo Alto's Park Boulevard for a 75-foot residential building, leaning on...
TruAmerica’s Bob Hart Sees ‘Tremendous Comeback’ in San Francisco Bay Area Apartments
Speaking on CBRE's The Weekly Take podcast, TruAmerica Multifamily founder Bob Hart singled out the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the...
Greymark Capital Buys Historic 56,000 SQFT Redstone Building in San Francisco’s Mission for $7MM
The Redstone Building, a century-old San Francisco landmark and longtime home to the city’s arts and labor organizations, has traded for $7.15 million,...
Historic Weatherford Building in Emeryville Trades for $7.2MM at 5903-5909 Christie Ave
A single-story flex and office building in the heart of Emeryville has changed hands for $7.2 million, a transaction that highlights continued investor...
Swift Lists 838,000 SQFT Rosewood Commons Office Campus in Pleasanton with Residential Redevelopment Upside
Swift Real Estate Partners has tapped JLL to sell Rosewood Commons, the Tri-Valley's most heavily amenitized office campus, wagering that a reset cost...
R&M Properties Advances 21-Story, 222-Unit Senior Housing Tower Poised to Top Redwood City’s Skyline
R&M Properties has filed updated plans for a 258-foot senior living tower at 910 Marshall Street that would rise higher than any building...
