Santa Clara Investor Group Acquires 112-Room Hyatt Place Newark/Silicon Valley for $19.8MM
Ashok Goyal’s buying group acquired the 2023-built hotel at $176,300 per room — well below the $25.8 million debt the lender took back...
Ballast Lands 80-Unit Grosvenor Atrium in Pacific Heights for $35.3MM, Doubling Down on San Francisco
The San Francisco multifamily operator paid roughly $441,250 per unit for 1690 Broadway, its latest play in a neighborhood where it has spent...
California Exports Climb 4.2% in March as Persian Gulf War Rattles Trade Outlook
The state’s first-quarter export gains mask deeper turbulence as fuel costs surge, Gulf shipments collapse, and California’s share of national export trade slips...
Meta Pulls the Plug on 1.6MM SQFT Willow Village in Menlo Park, Halting Silicon Valley’s Most Ambitious Corporate Campus
The 59-acre Menlo Park mega-project, first envisioned a decade ago to house 7,000 employees, joins a growing list of casualties as the tech...
Weil Gotshal Signs 59,000 SQFT Lease Renewal at Hudson Pacific’s Towers at Shore Center in Redwood Shores
The early renewal anchors one of the Peninsula’s premier law-firm offices and removes a 2026 expiration overhang for Hudson Pacific. Hudson Pacific Properties...
Mirum Pharmaceuticals Expands to 56,000 SQFT at Hudson Pacific’s Metro Center in Foster City
The rare-disease drugmaker doubles down on its Foster City headquarters as commercial revenue from its lead therapy accelerates. Mirum Pharmaceuticals has renewed and...
San Francisco’s Tax Code Emerges as Biggest Drag on Downtown Recovery, New Report Finds
Bay Area Council Economic Institute study shows the city’s business tax burden dwarfs peer cities, with a hypothetical tech firm paying triple what...
AI-Chip Startup Axiado Signs 29,000 SQFT Lease at Hudson Pacific’s Concourse in North San Jose
The platform-security company moves into a Class A campus near San Jose International Airport, months after closing a $100 million Series C+ funding...
Hudson Pacific’s Northern California Office Portfolio Anchors Q1 Leasing Push Despite Sub-73% Occupancy
The Bay Area is HPP’s largest region by square footage and its weakest by occupancy, but the company landed its three highest-profile new...
Colliers Secures Leasing Assignment of Kennedy Wilson’s 607,000 SQFT 601 City Center Office Tower in Oakland
601 City Center stands as the East Bay’s largest and newest Class A office tower. Oakland, California 05/07/2026 – Colliers is pleased to...
Lightspeed Venture Partners Leases 43,284 SQFT Space at 149 New Montgomery for San Francisco HQ
The Menlo Park venture firm, which led Anthropic’s Series E and backed its $380 billion Series G, is relocating its headquarters from Sand...
Leasing Activity Accelerates at Hacienda in Q1 2026
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the stabilization that began in late 2025....
Santa Clara Investor Group Acquires 112-Room Hyatt Place Newark/Silicon Valley for $19.8MM
Ashok Goyal’s buying group acquired the 2023-built hotel at $176,300 per room — well below the $25.8 million debt the lender took back...
Ballast Lands 80-Unit Grosvenor Atrium in Pacific Heights for $35.3MM, Doubling Down on San Francisco
The San Francisco multifamily operator paid roughly $441,250 per unit for 1690 Broadway, its latest play in a neighborhood where it has spent...
California Exports Climb 4.2% in March as Persian Gulf War Rattles Trade Outlook
The state’s first-quarter export gains mask deeper turbulence as fuel costs surge, Gulf shipments collapse, and California’s share of national export trade slips...
Meta Pulls the Plug on 1.6MM SQFT Willow Village in Menlo Park, Halting Silicon Valley’s Most Ambitious Corporate Campus
The 59-acre Menlo Park mega-project, first envisioned a decade ago to house 7,000 employees, joins a growing list of casualties as the tech...
San Francisco’s Tax Code Emerges as Biggest Drag on Downtown Recovery, New Report Finds
Bay Area Council Economic Institute study shows the city’s business tax burden dwarfs peer cities, with a hypothetical tech firm paying triple what...
Hudson Pacific’s Northern California Office Portfolio Anchors Q1 Leasing Push Despite Sub-73% Occupancy
The Bay Area is HPP’s largest region by square footage and its weakest by occupancy, but the company landed its three highest-profile new...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Silicon Valley Commercial Real Estate Market Expected to Thrive in 2026 and Beyond
By Scott Pritchett, CPM®, President Commercial Operations at Woodmont Real Estate Services The vastly improved commercial real estate market from the post-pandemic...
Continue ReadingMeta Pulls the Plug on 1.6MM SQFT Willow Village in Menlo Park, Halting Silicon Valley’s Most Ambitious Corporate Campus
The 59-acre Menlo Park mega-project, first envisioned a decade ago to house 7,000 employees, joins a growing list of casualties as the tech...
Graymark Capital Pays $26.9MM for 128,000 SQFT Property Once Slated for Life Science Development in Emeryville
The discounted acquisition of a once-promising biotech development site signals just how far Emeryville’s life sciences market has cratered. A San Francisco real...
Sobrato Lands Fully Leased 73,390 SQFT Cannery in Palo Alto Adaptive Reuse Bet
The Sobrato Organization opens an all-electric Class A office campus on the century-old Bayside Cannery site, capitalizing on flight-to-quality demand in the Peninsula’s...
Pacific Workplaces Leases 29,500 SQFT at Vornado Realty Trust’s 315 Montgomery Street in San Francisco
Coworking operator signs two-floor lease at Vornado’s Iconic Financial District Office Campus SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2026 — Pacific Workplaces, a San Francisco–based...
North American Life Sciences Sector Grapples With Supply Glut as 55% of Recent Lab Deliveries Sit Vacant
A pandemic-era construction wave has collided with cooling demand, leaving nearly 60 million square feet of new lab space struggling to find tenants...
29 Tenants Seeking 100,000 SQFT or More as Silicon Valley Office Demand Reaches 8.6MM SQFT Amid AI-Fueled Recovery
Large-block requirements and a six-quarter vacancy decline are reshaping competitive dynamics across the region’s office market, with AI and technology firms accounting for...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Swenson, Pacific Housing Pay $15MM for Berryessa BART Site Slated for 260 Affordable Apartments in San Jose
The triangular parcel at 1655 Berryessa Road anchors the second phase of San Jose’s Facchino Neighborhood, a 13-acre transit-oriented redevelopment A partnership between...
UCSF Greenlights 150,000 SQFT Bakar Ear & Hearing Institute, Deepening Mission Bay Bet in San Francisco
The five-story research and clinic building at Fifth and Nelson Rising Lane is slated for late-2026 groundbreaking and 2029 completion, extending UCSF’s run...
IDEAYA Doubles Down on Sierra Point in South San Francisco with 25,000 SQFT Expansion at DivcoWest’s 5000 Shoreline
Precision oncology firm pushes its footprint at the South San Francisco waterfront building to roughly 80,000 SQFT, securing a 20-month rent holiday and...
Macerich Doubles Down on West Coast Trophy Malls While Shedding Underperformers
The Santa Monica REIT’s Q1 2026 results reveal a portfolio strategy splitting Pacific Coast assets into two clear camps: properties worth fighting for...
Ensemble Investments Lands $110MM Refinance on 250-Key Hotel NIA in Menlo Park
The full-service Marriott Autograph property anchors Menlo Gateway, the only hotel of its kind on the 15.9-acre tech-adjacent campus Ensemble Investments has clinched...
Alo Yoga Lands First San Francisco Store with 3,485 SQFT Cow Hollow Lease at 2071 Union Street
The Los Angeles–based athleisure giant is angling to displace outdoor brand Kühl in a fitness-anchored stretch already home to SoulCycle, Equinox, and direct...
San Mateo Greenlights 10-Unit Pioneer Vista Townhomes, Converting Pioneer Court Office Building to For-Sale Housing
Chicago-area owner CW PM secures 4-1 Planning Commission approval to demolish a vacant office building and deliver three- to five-bedroom condominiums within a...
Hotel-to-Housing Pivot Lands on Amphlett: 1700 SA Corp. Pitches 234 Units in San Mateo
Belmont-based ownership tied to Woodmont Real Estate Services moves to demolish a vacant ex-Marriott on a 10-acre Highway 101 parcel and replace it...
