Costco Lands Exclusive Negotiating Rights for 23-Acre Warehouse on Former Oakland Army Base
After two decades of stalled redevelopment schemes, Oakland has secured an exclusive negotiation agreement with Costco to plant a warehouse store and gas...
Eight Midwestern Universities Plant a Flag in San Francisco’s South Park With Third Coast Foundry
A consortium of eight major Midwestern research universities has opened Third Coast Foundry at 625 Second Street, betting that a shared base in...
Academy of Art University Lists Vacant 99,600 SQFT 60 Federal Street Building in San Francisco’s South Park
Academy of Art University has placed its five-story, 99,600-square-foot building at 60 Federal Street in San Francisco’s South Park district on the market...
Truebeck Construction to Build Replacement Cal Fire Station No. 59 in Pescadero Using Mass Timber Design
San Mateo County has tapped Truebeck Construction to deliver a ground-up replacement for Cal Fire’s Pescadero Fire Station No. 59, relocating one of...
Entitled 787-Unit American River One Project in Sacramento’s River District Listed for Sale or Equity Partnership
Colliers is marketing the land and entitlements for American River One at 450 and 500 Bercut Drive, where owner Steve Ayers is seeking...
Safehold Closes $45MM Ground Lease for Pacific Companies’ 256-Unit Affordable Project in Soquel
Safehold deployed its land-ownership model into one of the nation’s costliest rental markets, closing a $45 million ground lease that helps capitalize a...
AI Data Center Market on Track to Hit $810.6B by 2033 as Enterprises Pour Capital Into Computing Infrastructure
A new Grand View Research study forecasts the global AI data center market will more than quintuple to $810.6 billion by 2033, with...
California Sends $11.25B Housing Bond to November Ballot, with $5.1B Aimed at Multifamily Development
California’s governor and legislative leaders have struck a deal to ask voters for $11.25 billion in housing borrowing this November, channeling the single...
Port of Oakland Posts Second Straight Month of Cargo Growth, Handling 190,958 TEUs in May
The Port of Oakland strung together back-to-back months of year-over-year volume gains in May 2026, lifted by stronger imports, resilient farm exports and...
Clarion Partners Pays $132.3MM for 267,100 SQFT Tesla-Leased Milmont Industrial Property in Fremont
Clarion Partners bought Milmont Industrial, a fully leased 267,100-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Fremont’s Warm Springs District, acquiring the Tesla-tenanted property from a...
Trump Stalls Landmark Housing Bill Over Voter-ID Fight, Leaving West Coast Investors in Limbo
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the biggest federal housing package in a generation, cleared Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, but President...
Hacienda Sees Three Months of Occupancy Growth and Leasing Gains
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, opened 2026 with strengthening fundamentals, extending the leasing momentum established in late 2025 and...
Eight Midwestern Universities Plant a Flag in San Francisco’s South Park With Third Coast Foundry
A consortium of eight major Midwestern research universities has opened Third Coast Foundry at 625 Second Street, betting that a shared base in...
AI Data Center Market on Track to Hit $810.6B by 2033 as Enterprises Pour Capital Into Computing Infrastructure
A new Grand View Research study forecasts the global AI data center market will more than quintuple to $810.6 billion by 2033, with...
California Sends $11.25B Housing Bond to November Ballot, with $5.1B Aimed at Multifamily Development
California’s governor and legislative leaders have struck a deal to ask voters for $11.25 billion in housing borrowing this November, channeling the single...
Port of Oakland Posts Second Straight Month of Cargo Growth, Handling 190,958 TEUs in May
The Port of Oakland strung together back-to-back months of year-over-year volume gains in May 2026, lifted by stronger imports, resilient farm exports and...
Trump Stalls Landmark Housing Bill Over Voter-ID Fight, Leaving West Coast Investors in Limbo
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the biggest federal housing package in a generation, cleared Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, but President...
Dueling Transfer Tax Measures Put Billions in California Real Estate Revenue on the Line
A Howard Jarvis ballot initiative and a last-minute legislative compromise, AB 736, are racing toward a June 25 deadline that will determine how...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Balanced Demand Across Industries Supports Ongoing Momentum at Hacienda
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the leasing momentum established in late...
Continue ReadingEight Midwestern Universities Plant a Flag in San Francisco’s South Park With Third Coast Foundry
A consortium of eight major Midwestern research universities has opened Third Coast Foundry at 625 Second Street, betting that a shared base in...
AI Wealth and Suburban Spillover Redraw the Northern California Retail Map in 2026
Northern California’s retail recovery is being driven from two directions at once: a Bay Area flush with AI-fueled wealth that is pulling tenants...
Healthcare Hiring Becomes Sacramento’s Most Reliable Office Demand Signal as Vacancy Holds at 21.3%
A new Colliers report finds that aggressive hiring and construction by Sacramento’s largest health systems is stabilizing an office market still absorbing waves...
DPI Retail Buys 36,000 SQFT Museum Parc for $19.25MM in San Francisco’s SoMa District
JLL Capital Markets arranges sale of fully leased retail and office asset below luxury residences SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2026 – JLL Capital Markets...
Lone Star Funds Wins Bid for Washington Holdings’ Assets in Portfolio Deal, Outbidding Brookfield and Hines
Dallas-based opportunistic investor clinches the Seattle platform’s entire real estate book in one of the largest captive-pension dispositions in recent memory. Lone Star...
City of San Francisco Expands 1455 Market St. Lease by 502,000 SQFT in $1B-Plus Deal, the Region’s Largest Since 2018
San Francisco has committed to its largest office lease since 2018, expanding the city government’s footprint at Hudson Pacific Properties’ 1455 Market St....
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...
Newmark Hires Drew Petersen as San Francisco Market Leader
San Francisco, CA (May 18, 2026) — Newmark today announces that the Company has hired industry veteran Drew Petersen as Executive Vice President...
Basin Street Properties Announces Three Leadership Promotions
RENO, NV (April 14, 2026) – Basin Street Properties announced the promotions of Elaine Nelson to Vice President of Operations, Stephen Biehle to...
Bay Area Council Announces Libby Schaaf as New President and CEO
The Sobrato Organization CEO Tony Mestres Elected Board Chair to succeed Kristina Lawson as her term ends The Bay Area Council today (April...
CBRE Elevates Mike Taquino and Kyle Kovac to Lead San Francisco Bay Area Office Capital Markets
The team has advised on more than $30 billion in commercial real estate transactions San Francisco – March 18, 2026 – CBRE announced...
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...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
The Buyer Who Wasn’t There
The record gap between home sellers and buyers reveals a tale of two Americas—Sun Belt markets drowning in oversupply while Northern cities with...
Charles Shaw’s Former Benessere Vineyards Draws $9MM Bid as 42-Acre Napa Estate Heads to Auction Block in St. Helena
A 42-acre valley-floor vineyard and winery estate once owned by the founder of “Two Buck Chuck” has drawn a $9 million high bid...
Dueling Transfer Tax Measures Put Billions in California Real Estate Revenue on the Line
A Howard Jarvis ballot initiative and a last-minute legislative compromise, AB 736, are racing toward a June 25 deadline that will determine how...
Office Properties Income Trust Exits Bankruptcy With $714MM Debt Cut as Creditors Seize Control of Silicon Valley-Heavy REIT
A national office REIT with six Silicon Valley properties has emerged from Chapter 11 after a court-supervised restructuring that wiped out existing shareholders,...
PulteGroup Clears Review for 147-Unit Parvia Townhome Project Near Apple Park in Santa Clara
National homebuilder PulteGroup has advanced its plan to replace a longstanding Santa Clara shopping center with 147 for-sale townhomes a short walk from...
Golf Course Standoff Pushes San Leandro Marina Redevelopment Into Bankruptcy Court, Stalling 200-Plus Homes
A decade-long effort to remake San Leandro’s 75-acre waterfront has collapsed into a bankruptcy-court fight pitting developer Cal Coast against the city that...
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...
Demmon Partners’ 316-Unit Greens at Pruneridge Clears Key Review Hurdle in Santa Clara as Apartment Market Tightens
Santa Clara has released a draft environmental impact report for The Greens at Pruneridge, advancing Demmon Partners’ bid to carve 316 apartments out...
San Jose and San Francisco Claim Top Two Spots in National AI Ranking as Bay Area Office Demand Roars Back
A new Hubble ranking of the 20 most AI-ready U.S. metros places San Jose first and San Francisco second, cementing the Bay Area...