Google Nears Deal to Keep Entire 157,000 SQFT Sobrato Building in Mountain View
Google is closing in on a lease for an entire office building near its Mountain View headquarters, reversing earlier expectations that it would...
PwC Locks In 200,000 SQFT at 405 Howard in San Francisco Through 2040
PwC extended its 405 Howard St. lease eight years early, betting that today’s tight trophy-office vacancy and thin construction pipeline will only push...
Hudson Pacific Extends $1.1B Hollywood Loan as Bay Area Landlord Leans on Asset Sales to Tame Debt
Hudson Pacific Properties pushed the maturity on its $1.1 billion Hollywood studio loan to late 2027 without paying down a dollar of principal,...
Framework Ventures and BDT Capital Partners Take New Space at San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid
Newly recorded city filings reveal that crypto-focused Framework Ventures and merchant-banking affiliate BDT Capital Partners are outfitting offices across three floors of the...
After the Student-Housing Towers, the Bay Area’s Next Campus Play Is Everything at Their Base
The next round of value creation in university districts is not more student beds but the grocery, retail and hotels that keep them...
Crescent Heights Wins Revised Approval for 921-Unit, 820-Foot Tower at 10 South Van Ness
San Francisco’s Planning Commission trimmed Crescent Heights’ approved unit count from 1,019 to 921 at the 820-foot 10 South Van Ness tower, even...
San Jose Approves 168-Unit Affordable Housing at 143 South Third Street
City records show the seven-story project cleared its Planning Director’s Hearing with changes to conditions, arriving with a reworked parking structure — five...
Kubera Strikes $14.5MM Deal to Sell Bankrupt University Inn in Berkeley, Aiming to Halt Foreclosure
The owner of Berkeley's University Inn & Suites has reached a $14.5 million agreement to sell the bankrupt 113-room hotel to a Sonoma...
As Cap-Rate Compression Ends, Schnitzer Says Operators Will Win Industrial’s Next Cycle
In a wide-ranging podcast interview, longtime Oregon industrial owner Jordan Schnitzer argued that the era of cheap debt and falling cap rates that...
Lift Partners Buys Vacant 81,000 SQFT Former Amy’s Kitchen Plant in San Jose for $18.35MM
San Francisco-based Lift Partners has added a vacant East San Jose warehouse once occupied by organic food maker Amy's Kitchen to its growing...
Stanford Files Long-Awaited 1.8MM SQFT Growth Plan With Santa Clara County
Eighteen months of listening sessions and a 22-member advisory council produced a plan that trades some of 2016’s academic square footage for a...
Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the month...
After the Student-Housing Towers, the Bay Area’s Next Campus Play Is Everything at Their Base
The next round of value creation in university districts is not more student beds but the grocery, retail and hotels that keep them...
As Cap-Rate Compression Ends, Schnitzer Says Operators Will Win Industrial’s Next Cycle
In a wide-ranging podcast interview, longtime Oregon industrial owner Jordan Schnitzer argued that the era of cheap debt and falling cap rates that...
California, Texas and Washington Together Drive More Than 26% of U.S. GDP
New figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that the three states anchoring The Registry's coverage — California, Texas and Washington...
OpenAI Scouts Multiple Silicon Valley Campuses as AI Firms Push South of Their San Francisco Base
As it hunts for room to grow, OpenAI has toured a cluster of the region's biggest available office campuses—among them Mountain View's The...
Newsom Weighs Bill Licensing the Cash-Advance and Factoring Firms Bankrolling Bay Area Small Businesses
California lawmakers have handed Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would make the state the first in the country to require merchant cash...
California Falls to Third in Battery Storage as Siting Fights Reroute Bay Area Projects
California installed 3.6 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter and finished behind Arizona and Texas in the largest quarter the national...
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Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the...
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Google Nears Deal to Keep Entire 157,000 SQFT Sobrato Building in Mountain View
Google is closing in on a lease for an entire office building near its Mountain View headquarters, reversing earlier expectations that it would...
OpenAI Scouts Multiple Silicon Valley Campuses as AI Firms Push South of Their San Francisco Base
As it hunts for room to grow, OpenAI has toured a cluster of the region's biggest available office campuses—among them Mountain View's The...
Goodwill of Silicon Valley Leases Former Rite Aid, Nearly Doubling South San Jose Store to 15,000 SQFT
The nonprofit is backfilling a vacant East Capitol Expressway drugstore emptied by Rite Aid's nationwide collapse, gaining room to pair retail sales with...
TMG, Grove and Lone Star Acquire 2.2MM SQFT Silicon Valley R&D Portfolio for Under $650MM
TMG and Grove step in as operating partners on a 140-acre, six-campus R&D platform even as vacancy climbs and per-square-foot pricing lags well...
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...
Northern California Sidelined in Data Center Boom as Power Limits Push Capacity to Texas
Northern California, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, now holds barely 1 gigawatt of data center capacity and does not rank among North America's...
Sares Regis Elevates Drew Hudacek and Dave Hopkins to Co-CEOs as Founders Set Succession in Motion
Sares Regis Group of Northern California has handed day-to-day command of one of the Bay Area's most active development firms to two longtime...
Coblentz Expands Construction and Litigation Capabilities with the Arrival of New Partner Raymond Buddie
San Francisco-based law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP is pleased to welcome Raymond Buddie to the firm’s partnership. Ray brings more...
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...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
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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...
Prologis Lists for Sale Fully Leased 1MM SQFT Hollister Cross-Dock Distribution Center
Prologis has tapped CBRE to sell 600 Ernie Drive, one of the few million-square-foot logistics buildings in Northern California, wagering that a long-dated...
Goodwill of Silicon Valley Leases Former Rite Aid, Nearly Doubling South San Jose Store to 15,000 SQFT
The nonprofit is backfilling a vacant East Capitol Expressway drugstore emptied by Rite Aid's nationwide collapse, gaining room to pair retail sales with...
Country Inn & Suites San Jose Airport Hotel Returns to Market at $16.9MM After $2.3MM Price Cut
The 126-room Country Inn & Suites by Radisson beside San José Mineta International Airport has returned to the sales market at $16.9 million,...
Hudson Pacific Offloads Emptiest San Francisco Offices as Common Dividend Stays Suspended
The West Coast office landlord has left common shareholders without a payout since September 2024, its second dividend suspension in two years, and...
Sutter Health Closes $1.41B Bond Sale to Fund Care Complexes in Folsom, Elk Grove and Roseville
The bond financing, issued through the California Health Facilities Financing Authority, will underwrite hospital expansions, outpatient campuses and property acquisitions across the Greater...
42-Unit Sonoma Boutique Apartment Portfolio Trades for $11.9MM Across Three Properties
A trio of boutique apartment communities in Sonoma totaling 42 units has traded for a combined $11.9 million, delivering a rare block of...
SF Planning Commission OKs Tower on Former Golden Gate University Campus, Caps Office Allocation Below Developer’s Ask
Golden Gate University’s exit from its century-old downtown campus clears the way for a tower whose design leans on setbacks responding to both...
Placer County Converts Auburn School Into California’s First New Police Academy in 20 Years
The Placer County Sheriff's Office has repurposed a shuttered Auburn elementary school into the first POST-certified law enforcement academy to open in California...
