First-Citizens Bank Moves to Foreclose on 1 Grant Avenue and 156 Geary Retail Backed by $40MM Loan in San Francisco’s Union Square
First-Citizens Bank has started foreclosure proceedings against two prime Union Square retail buildings after their owner failed to repay a matured $40 million...
SFF Realty Partners Buys 104,000 SQFT Bosch-Leased Sunnyvale Building for $46MM
A Sunnyvale R&D building fully leased to German engineering giant Bosch has traded hands for $46 million, the latest sign that investors are...
Brex Leases Entire 200,000 SQFT Building at 270 Brannan St in San Francisco
Brex takes all 200,000 SQFT at 270 Brannan St in a nearly 10-year San Francisco lease, reversing its earlier remote-first retreat.
California Sues Half Moon Bay and Turlock in Five-City Housing Element Enforcement Sweep
State housing regulators hauled Half Moon Bay and Turlock into court over years-overdue housing plans, the Northern California front of a five-city enforcement...
Sunday AI Lands 52,000 SQFT Direct Lease at Menlo Equities’ 305 Walnut Street in Downtown Redwood City
Robotics developer Sunday AI has committed to 51,550 square feet at 305 Walnut Street in Downtown Redwood City, a direct lease that injects...
PEF Advisors Acquires 104-Unit Quail Run Affordable Housing Community in San Leandro
Preservation Equity Fund Advisors has purchased Quail Run Apartments, a 104-unit income-restricted community in San Leandro, and plans a capital campaign to modernize...
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Commits $75MM to Anchor Vanderbilt’s Takeover of CCA’s San Francisco Campus
Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, have pledged $75 million to establish a namesake art and design college at...
Yellowstone Seizes Parkmerced Development Sites Entitled for 1,700 Units Through $199MM Foreclosure in San Francisco
A New York distressed-debt specialist has taken control of the buildable heart of San Francisco’s largest apartment complex, using a construction loan it...
Court Clears Port of Oakland’s 830,000 SQFT Airport Terminal Expansion as Opponents Vow Appeal
An Alameda County judge has upheld the environmental review behind the Port of Oakland’s multibillion-dollar plan to rebuild Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport,...
TNDC Keeps 199-Unit Senior Housing Project in San Francisco on Ice, Betting Revival on $11.25B Housing Bond
The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation has resubmitted preliminary permits for its 199-unit affordable senior housing development at 1234 Great Highway in San Francisco’s...
110-Unit 707 Leahy Apartments in Redwood City Trades for $73.9MM as Aimco Advances Liquidation
A 1031 exchange buyer has closed on Aimco’s fully redeveloped 110-unit 707 Leahy apartment community in Redwood City for $73.9 million, converting one...
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...
California Sues Half Moon Bay and Turlock in Five-City Housing Element Enforcement Sweep
State housing regulators hauled Half Moon Bay and Turlock into court over years-overdue housing plans, the Northern California front of a five-city enforcement...
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Commits $75MM to Anchor Vanderbilt’s Takeover of CCA’s San Francisco Campus
Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, have pledged $75 million to establish a namesake art and design college at...
Prologis Points to San Francisco Bay Area as Early Leader in Rotation Back to Coastal Markets
Prologis singled out the San Francisco Bay Area as the clearest early sign of a broader shift back toward coastal industrial markets, ranking...
Bay Area Regional Shopping Center Occupancy Hits 93.86%, a 4-Year High as Large-Format Retailers Return
Occupancy across the Bay Area’s flagship power centers reached its strongest level since early 2022 during the second quarter, propelled by East Bay...
Liquidity Roars Back to Bay Area Debt Markets as Office Lending Returns, Newmark’s Daya Says
The question haunting commercial real estate borrowers two years ago has been answered, and the debt markets that froze after a wave of...
California Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.2% in June, Lowest Since May 2024
California’s jobless rate ground down to its lowest level in more than a year even as employers trimmed payrolls for a second straight...
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 ReadingBrex Leases Entire 200,000 SQFT Building at 270 Brannan St in San Francisco
Brex takes all 200,000 SQFT at 270 Brannan St in a nearly 10-year San Francisco lease, reversing its earlier remote-first retreat.
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits Record Highs as Real Vacancy Nears 15%, Newmark’s Adler Says
San Francisco office leasing has surged to all-time highs in the first half of 2026, and a Newmark building-by-building analysis argues the market’s...
Bauen Capital Moves to Carve Two Downtown Sacramento Office Buildings Totaling 197,000 SQFT Into For-Sale Condominiums
Seven years after Bauen Capital bought a pair of derelict K Street landmarks on the thesis that California state agencies would fill them,...
Virtu Investments Sells 64-Unit Multifamily Property in Livermore for $19.75MM
The final piece of a three-property Livermore multifamily portfolio has changed hands, with Marcus & Millichap closing the $19.75 million sale of Briarwood...
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...
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...
Oakland’s 1 Kaiser Plaza Appraisal Craters 75% to $53.5MM as Kaiser Permanente Retreats
A fresh appraisal has slashed the value of CIM Group’s 1 Kaiser Plaza in downtown Oakland to $53.5 million, roughly a quarter of...
CIM Group Loses Control of Historic 165,000 SQFT Central Tower in San Francisco as Receiver Takes Over
A San Francisco Superior Court judge has placed the historic Central Tower into receivership after owner CIM Group defaulted on a $98 million...
Apple Leases 125,800 SQFT Sunnyvale Office Building from Peery Arrillaga
The lease extends a pattern Apple has repeated across its recent Sunnyvale buying spree — occupy first, then acquire — as the South...
Prologis Points to San Francisco Bay Area as Early Leader in Rotation Back to Coastal Markets
Prologis singled out the San Francisco Bay Area as the clearest early sign of a broader shift back toward coastal industrial markets, ranking...
Port of San Francisco Backs $38MM Incentive Package to Rescue 164-Room Teatro ZinZanni Hotel on the Embarcadero
Facing a $30 million hole that has kept one of the Embarcadero’s marquee waterfront projects frozen for the better part of a decade,...
Bay Area Regional Shopping Center Occupancy Hits 93.86%, a 4-Year High as Large-Format Retailers Return
Occupancy across the Bay Area’s flagship power centers reached its strongest level since early 2022 during the second quarter, propelled by East Bay...
Adeline Alliance Unveils Preliminary Designs for 618-Unit Ashby BART Development in Berkeley
The development team behind Berkeley’s Ashby BART Station project has released its first design images, showing five buildings and roughly 600 apartments rising...
