Washington Holdings Could Bring Up to 2.5MM SQFT of Silicon Valley R&D Space to Market as State Pension Fund Eyes California Exit
The Seattle-based real estate firm controls seven R&D parks, two hotels, and a retail center across San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, and Pleasanton...
Shorenstein’s 188 Spear Street Faces Near-Total Vacancy as Amazon, New Relic Prepare to Exit 218,000 SQFT San Francisco Tower
The 1973-vintage Financial District property, acquired for $25 million in 2009, now has more than 206,000 square feet available across 11 full floors...
Yoda Plc Closes $725MM Acquisition of 750,000 SQFT Transamerica Pyramid Center in San Francisco’s Largest Office Trade Since 2021
Total cost includes $691.6 million purchase price plus a $34 million settlement with asset manager Michael Shvo; Cyprus-based conglomerate financed the deal with...
Oakland’s Structural Shift: Healthcare Boom and Office Downturn Reshape Economic Landscape
Healthcare assets and stalled hiring define next phase for Bay Area’s largest port city. Oakland is entering a period of structural economic adjustment,...
UBS Suspends $469MM Euroinvest Fund Withdrawals, Exposing Structural Cracks in European Real Estate Vehicles
Asset manager halts redemptions for up to three years amid liquidity constraints, as open-ended fund model faces systemic stress across European property markets....
UC Berkeley Advances 1,625-Bed Student Housing Complex on 1.98-Acre Southside Site
The Channing-Bowditch project would become the university’s largest dormitory development, providing more than 1,500 undergraduate beds two blocks from campus while partially preserving...
Calson Management Sells 48-Unit Silicon Valley Memory Care Portfolio to Kalesta Healthcare Group for $24.3MM
Off-market transaction includes Sunnyvale and Menlo Park facilities backed by low-rate HUD financing as investor demand for senior care properties intensifies across the...
Industrious Leases 23,000 SQFT at Foster City’s Metro Center as Bay Area Coworking Push Accelerates
The CBRE-owned coworking operator’s fourth Bay Area location in a year targets Peninsula workers who relocated during the pandemic and have resisted commuting...
Prado Group Pivots From 49-Unit Mixed-Use Project to Retail-Only Expansion in San Francisco’s Marina District
Previously entitled mixed-use apartment complex gives way to a $2.75 million commercial retrofit along the Marina District’s main retail corridor Plans for a...
Briggs Development Lists 37,000 SQFT Class A Office Building in Los Altos
The fully leased, two-story property on Silicon Valley’s El Camino Real corridor underwent a comprehensive renovation in 2019 and is being marketed as...
Eight-Story, 57-Unit Residential Project Advances on San Bruno Transit Corridor
A former gas station site near Caltrain moves toward an April hearing as state density bonus laws reshape long-stalled housing proposals across the...
Occupancy Rises at Hacienda as Diverse Industries Expand in Tri-Valley
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, recorded a modest increase in total occupancy to 6,581,927 square feet in March, up...
Oakland’s Structural Shift: Healthcare Boom and Office Downturn Reshape Economic Landscape
Healthcare assets and stalled hiring define next phase for Bay Area’s largest port city. Oakland is entering a period of structural economic adjustment,...
UBS Suspends $469MM Euroinvest Fund Withdrawals, Exposing Structural Cracks in European Real Estate Vehicles
Asset manager halts redemptions for up to three years amid liquidity constraints, as open-ended fund model faces systemic stress across European property markets....
Governor Newsom Escalates California Housing Crackdown as 15 Communities Face Legal Action
State issues final warning to noncompliant jurisdictions; developers gain leverage through Builder’s Remedy pathway. California’s housing shortage now has a new enforcement mechanism...
Essex Property Trust Doubles Down on Northern California With $830MM Acquisition Spree as AI-Fueled Demand Drives Rent Growth
The apartment REIT deployed more capital into the Bay Area than any other region in 2025, acquiring seven communities as Northern California posted...
West Coast Self Storage Developers Navigate Tariff Pressures and Labor Headwinds as Subcontractor Competition Intensifies
A new contractor survey from DXD Capital reveals that while material costs and deportation-related labor disruptions are mounting, aggressive subcontractor pricing is offering...
Bay Area Leaders Say Silence Is Not a Strategy as Immigration Enforcement Threatens Regional Economy
At a convening of civic, business, and philanthropic leaders, a cross-sector coalition outlines a coordinated defense of the region’s immigrant workforce and the...
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Port of Oakland Opens 2026 with Modest Cargo Growth in January
Import gains drive overall volume increase as vessel activity remains steady Oakland, Calif. – March 2, 2026: The Port of Oakland began 2026 with...
OpenAI Completes 280,000 SQFT Sublease at 1800 Owens Street, Pushing San Francisco Footprint Past 1 Million SQFT
The ChatGPT maker’s takeover of former Dropbox space at The Exchange in Mission Bay cements the AI giant’s dominance as the city’s largest...
San Francisco VC Funding Tops $43.8 Billion in Early 2026 After Record $116.94 Billion Year as AI Mega-Rounds Reshape Office Market
OpenAI’s $40 billion raise led the largest deal tally ever recorded while 2026 is already on pace to match prior-year totals, with $43.8...
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...
Orange Buensuceso Promoted to Director of San Francisco at FPBA
Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects (FPBA) has promoted Orange Buensuceso, AIA, LEED AP, to Director of San Francisco, a milestone that takes on added...
Kilroy Realty Corporation Announces Board Refreshment
LOS ANGELES–Kilroy Realty Corporation (NYSE: KRC) (“Kilroy” or the “Company”) today announced leadership changes on the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) and...
Jodi Contreras Appointed to IREM’s Northern California Board
Belmont, CA; February 2, 2026 –Woodmont Real Estate Services’ Jeff Bosshard, CPM,®President, Multifamily Operations, announced that Jodi Contreras, CPM,®ARM,® and Regional Vice President, was appointed to IREM’s...
Kidder Mathews Welcomes Industrial Team of John Kovaleski, David Buchholz, and Alex Kovaleski in Silicon Valley
San Jose, Calif. (January 28, 2026) – Kidder Mathews is pleased to welcome John Kovaleski, David Buchholz, SIOR, and Alex Kovaleski to the firm’s Silicon Valley office....
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...
Feed the Machine: AI Could Unjam San Francisco’s 280-Day Permitting Nightmare
The city knows its building codes better than anyone. The problem is it takes 280 days to prove it. What if a computer...
An Approval is Not a Building Permit
Why the hand-wringing over Google’s empty San Jose acreage misses the point entirely. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bounded by Sea, Strangled by Trusts
Every acre we preserve is an acre we can’t build on—and the housing math is catching up By Billy the Broker (I just...
Amazon’s Empty Chairs
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) To put the size of Amazon’s office downsizing in perspective, one of its...
Housing Handcuffs
As AI startups lease luxury apartments and offer proximity bonuses to keep workers steps from their desks, San Francisco’s hottest perk is starting...
Google Plans to Convert 40,000 SQFT at San Francisco’s Hills Plaza into Employee Amenities
The search giant is converting vacant ground-floor restaurant and fitness space into a private amenity hub and community space for Google.org, deepening its...
Mana Investments Advances 108-Unit Condo Project in South San Jose After Planning Commission Vote
Builder’s Remedy proposal at 5670 Camden Avenue moves forward despite environmental and traffic concerns, with City Council review expected next A long-vacant school-adjacent...
Berkeley Design Review Committee Approves Hudson McDonald’s 359-Unit Mixed-Use Tower at Shattuck Avenue
An 8-story development would replace two former car dealership buildings with nearly 282,000 square feet of housing and retail in South Berkeley A...
Tech Titans Reshape Incline Village: Record $125MM Estate Sale Signals Ultra-Wealthy Migration to Nevada Tax Haven
Venture capitalist’s off-market acquisition more than doubles previous Tahoe record, reflecting broader shift in luxury residential investment patterns. An entity linked to venture...
Governor Newsom Escalates California Housing Crackdown as 15 Communities Face Legal Action
State issues final warning to noncompliant jurisdictions; developers gain leverage through Builder’s Remedy pathway. California’s housing shortage now has a new enforcement mechanism...
Grosvenor Lists Entitled 225-Unit Development Site in Oakland’s KONO District
The international property group purchased the two-parcel, 39,491-square-foot site in 2022 for $12 million but never broke ground on the approved mixed-use project...
H Mart Opens 39,000 SQFT Dublin Retail Center as Bay Area Asian Grocer Wave Intensifies
Korean supermarket chain converts former hardware store into food-anchored shopping destination, capturing momentum in retail segment driven by demographic shifts and investor appetite....
Amoeba Music Owners File Zoning Permits for 68-Unit Mixed-Use Project in Berkeley
The eight-story development in Berkeley’s Southside neighborhood would preserve the iconic record store and two historic murals, including the 1976 People’s Park Mural...
