Vivmark Residential Affiliates Pay $741.8MM for 1,843 Bay Area Apartments in Post-Merger Buying Spree
Vivmark Residential’s affiliates paid $741.8 million for seven Silicon Valley and East Bay apartment complexes bearing AvalonBay’s legacy Avalon and Eaves brands, a...
Lennar Advances 1,251-Home Shafter Neighborhood Squarely in California High-Speed Rail’s Path
Homebuilder Lennar has secured tentative Shafter approval for the final phase of its Gossamer Grove community, planting more than 1,200 single-family lots directly...
$67.6MM Refinancing Secured on Jamestown’s 199,000 SQFT Exchange at Larkspur Office Campus in Marin County
Debt-fund lender ACORE Capital has refinanced the three-building, LEED-certified office park that Jamestown assembled near the Larkspur ferry terminal, a vote of confidence...
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Renews 42,000 SQFT at Parkway Corporate Plaza in Roseville
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. has renewed 42,405 square feet at Parkway Corporate Plaza in Roseville, extending a healthcare tenancy that has become...
Bering Capital Partners Buys DuraVent’s 280,000 SQFT Vacaville HQ for $27.4MM
A San Francisco investor bets on heavy power and a decades-long tenant, picking up a fully leased Solano County manufacturing campus well below...
American Healthcare REIT Buys 345-Unit Sonrisa Senior Living in Roseville for $94.1MM
American Healthcare REIT has acquired Sonrisa Senior Living, a 345-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care campus in Roseville, for $94.1 million,...
New Federal Housing Law Hands Northern California Fresh Levers on Supply, But Leaves Zoning Untouched
The nation’s first comprehensive federal housing package in decades arms Northern California developers and lenders with new incentives for adaptive reuse, small-dollar lending...
Cabrillo, UC Santa Cruz and Greystar Advance $181MM, 624-Bed Costa Vista Student Housing in Aptos
A first-in-California partnership between a community college and a University of California campus, the Costa Vista development in Aptos cleared a late-summer financing...
Bay Area Defends No. 1 Tech Talent Rank as AI Absorbs 57% of Its Job Postings
The San Francisco Bay Area again topped CBRE's annual tech talent scorecard even as its overall workforce shrank, with artificial intelligence now driving...
California Forever Nears Sacramento Fast-Track for Solano Shipyard as Housing Vision Is Left Behind
California Forever is poised to exit the current legislative session with state permission to fast-track thousands of maritime and manufacturing jobs in eastern...
Mana Investments Plans 376-Home Mariani Ranch Development on Andy’s Orchard Farmland in Morgan Hill
A California investment firm is moving to convert one of Silicon Valley's last working fruit orchards into a 376-home subdivision, using a state...
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...
New Federal Housing Law Hands Northern California Fresh Levers on Supply, But Leaves Zoning Untouched
The nation’s first comprehensive federal housing package in decades arms Northern California developers and lenders with new incentives for adaptive reuse, small-dollar lending...
Bay Area Defends No. 1 Tech Talent Rank as AI Absorbs 57% of Its Job Postings
The San Francisco Bay Area again topped CBRE's annual tech talent scorecard even as its overall workforce shrank, with artificial intelligence now driving...
Bay Area AI and Robotics Funding Tops $280B in 2026 as Sector Drives Record Silicon Valley Leasing
Bay Area artificial intelligence and robotics companies raised more than $280 billion through the first half of 2026, and that capital is spilling...
US Retailers Swing to 26.1MM SQFT of Net Growth in 2026 as Bay Area Chains Expand
American retailers have announced enough new store space this year to reverse a multi-year run of contraction, and several of the chains powering...
Madison Park Doubles Down on Oakland Multifamily as AI Boom Widens the Rent Gap With San Francisco
Madison Park is preparing a concentrated wave of new investment across the East Bay, betting that San Francisco's AI hiring surge has already...
Vanguard Properties Acquires Oakland’s Abio Properties, Pushing Into East Bay Against Compass
San Francisco's largest independent brokerage is absorbing 10-year-old Abio Properties and retiring its name, a defensive East Bay expansion as Compass consolidates the...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
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...
Continue ReadingKaiser Foundation Health Plan Renews 42,000 SQFT at Parkway Corporate Plaza in Roseville
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. has renewed 42,405 square feet at Parkway Corporate Plaza in Roseville, extending a healthcare tenancy that has become...
Revolution Medicines Bets 700,000 SQFT on Farallon’s Former Google Campus in Redwood City
Revolution Medicines, the fast-growing developer racing toward its first commercial cancer drug, is in advanced talks for roughly 700,000 square feet at Pacific...
Neuralink Extends 48,000 SQFT Fremont Lease at Ardenwood Research Center in Quarter’s Fourth-Largest Life Science Deal
Elon Musk's Neuralink has extended its lease on 48,240 square feet at the Ardenwood Research Center on Paseo Padre Parkway in Fremont, a...
Nevada PERS Nears $62.2MM Acquisition of 62,500 SQFT 1400 Veterans Medical Office Building in Redwood City
A Nevada public pension fund is closing on a Peninsula medical office building as part of an all-cash push to double its real...
DivcoWest Closes on 47.5% of San Francisco’s 101 California Tower in ~$450MM Trophy Office Deal
DivcoWest has completed its purchase of a 47.5 percent stake in 101 California Street, finalizing San Francisco’s largest office transaction in more than...
Bay Area Office Recovery Broadens as Vacancy Falls to 20% and Sublease Space Hits Six-Year Low
Colliers’ Q2 2026 report found Bay Area office vacancy fell to 20 percent and sublease space hit its lowest level since early 2020,...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
AvalonBay Affiliate Sells 348-Unit Avalon Campbell for $147.3MM Days After Vivmark Merger Closes
An affiliate of AvalonBay Communities sold its 348-unit Avalon Campbell apartment community for $147.3 million just days after the company completed its merger...
San Benito High School District Plans 500-Unit Affordable Housing and Retail District on Former Campus Site in Hollister
The San Benito High School District is charting a new future for a long-held parcel at Best Road and Highway 25 in Hollister,...
Terreno Realty Acquires 65,000 SQFT Mendell Street Industrial Property in San Francisco for $25.9MM
Terreno Realty Corporation has purchased a fully leased ±64,782-square-foot industrial complex on 3.8 acres in San Francisco's India Basin from the Lowenberg Corporation...
AI Chipmaker SambaNova Systems Subleases 37,000 SQFT at 2460 N. First Street in North San Jose
SambaNova Systems, the AI hardware developer, has picked up nearly 37,000 square feet of sublet space in North San Jose, one of dozens...
Align and Albertsons Downsize Rockridge Senior Housing Towers to 372 Units, Add Grocery in Oakland
Align Real Estate and Albertsons have formally filed a scaled-back version of their twin-tower senior housing project at Oakland's Rockridge Trader Joe's site,...
Chengde Capital Files Plans for 58-Unit For-Sale Townhome Project on Redwood City’s Charter Street
Chengde Capital seeks to replace Redwood City's Mi Rancho Supermarket with 58 for-sale townhome condominiums, nine below market rate.
State of California Signs 42,000 SQFT New Lease on El Camino Avenue in Sacramento’s Watt Corridor
The State of California has taken 42,372 square feet of new office space on El Camino Avenue, planting one of the largest suburban...
FallenLeaf Enterprises Buys 33-Unit Alamo Park Apartments in Mountain View for $12.1MM
FallenLeaf Enterprises LLC has paid $12.1 million for a 33-unit apartment complex tucked into a Mountain View residential neighborhood, a modest-sized deal that...
