SRE Acquisitions Acquires 357-Room Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley for $53MM from Ashford Hospitality Trust
The Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley has changed hands for the first time in more than a decade, giving a Dallas-based hotel REIT working...
Blue Owl Lists SanDisk’s 578,000 SQFT Flash Memory HQ Campus in Milpitas Three Years After $192.5MM Sale-Leaseback
Blue Owl Capital has placed the five-building Milpitas R&D campus it bought from Western Digital in a 2023 sale-leaseback back on the market,...
San Francisco Cuts Inclusionary Housing Rate to 5%, Exempts Projects Under 24 Units
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 on Tuesday to cut the city’s inclusionary housing requirement from 15 percent to 5 percent...
Residents Buy 82-Space Alisal Country Estates Mobile Home Park in Salinas for $12MM
The residents of Salinas’ 82-space Alisal Country Estates Mobile Home Park have collectively purchased the property for $12 million, converting a rented-land community...
DeNardi Wang Homes Nears 216-Unit Condo Tower as Mountain View Moves to Sell Gamel Way
Mountain View is preparing to sell off an entire public street to clear the way for a seven-story, 216-condominium tower from DeNardi Wang...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
San Francisco’s Office-to-Housing Pipeline Clears 300 Units as AI Rebound Squeezes Conversion Candidates
After a decade with almost nothing to show, San Francisco is set to receive applications for three office-to-residential conversions totaling more than 300...
71,000 SQFT Class A Headquarters at Pleasanton’s Bernal Corporate Park Hits the Market, Leased to Rimini Street Through 2027
A freestanding, three-story Class A office building in Pleasanton’s Bernal Corporate Park has hit the market as a rare owner-user opportunity, fully occupied...
Cultivated Meat Company Upside Foods Leases 19,000 SQFT at 6101 Christie Avenue in Emeryville
Upside Foods, the cultivated meat company that raised more than $600 million at a billion-dollar valuation and then cut staff three times in...
Baiju Bhatt’s Aetherflux, Now Cowboy Space, Leases 15,000 SQFT at 1710 Industrial Road in San Carlos
The space-based solar power startup founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt leased 14,825 square feet at 1710 Industrial Road in San Carlos, then...
Ian Jacobs Affiliate Pays $48.5MM for Bulgari-Anchored Union Square Building in San Francisco
A Reichmann family scion just placed one of his biggest bets yet on Union Square’s recovery, closing on a Bulgari-anchored building days after...
NAIOP Becomes the Commercial Real Estate Development Association
Association adopts a new name that more clearly represents its members, their work, and its role as the leading voice for commercial real...
San Francisco Cuts Inclusionary Housing Rate to 5%, Exempts Projects Under 24 Units
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 on Tuesday to cut the city’s inclusionary housing requirement from 15 percent to 5 percent...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
San Francisco’s Office-to-Housing Pipeline Clears 300 Units as AI Rebound Squeezes Conversion Candidates
After a decade with almost nothing to show, San Francisco is set to receive applications for three office-to-residential conversions totaling more than 300...
Cultivated Meat Company Upside Foods Leases 19,000 SQFT at 6101 Christie Avenue in Emeryville
Upside Foods, the cultivated meat company that raised more than $600 million at a billion-dollar valuation and then cut staff three times in...
Baiju Bhatt’s Aetherflux, Now Cowboy Space, Leases 15,000 SQFT at 1710 Industrial Road in San Carlos
The space-based solar power startup founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt leased 14,825 square feet at 1710 Industrial Road in San Carlos, then...
Redwood City Sends Sweeping Rent-Control Measure to November Ballot, Rattling Peninsula Landlords
A citizen-led rent-control initiative backed by Faith in Action Bay Area has qualified for Redwood City’s November ballot, setting up a costly showdown...
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 ReadingCultivated Meat Company Upside Foods Leases 19,000 SQFT at 6101 Christie Avenue in Emeryville
Upside Foods, the cultivated meat company that raised more than $600 million at a billion-dollar valuation and then cut staff three times in...
Bay Area Life Sciences Vacancy Jumps to 26.2% as Pfizer Vacates 164,000 SQFT at Oyster Point and Emeryville Land Sells for Half Its 2019 Price
The San Francisco Bay Area’s life sciences vacancy rate climbed 310 basis points year over year to 26.2 percent as more than 500,000...
Archer Aviation Leases Entire 501,000-SQFT Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill to Scale Air Taxi Production
Air taxi maker Archer Aviation has committed to all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s 30-acre Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill, a...
$115MM Loan Secured to Refinance 155-Room La Bahia Hotel & Spa in Santa Cruz
La Bahia Hotel & Spa, the 155-room luxury resort that opened in September 2025 as Santa Cruz’s first beachfront hotel of its kind...
GM Lands Nearly 340,000 SQFT Palo Alto Campus at Stanford Research Park, Picking Broadcom Site Over Sunnyvale
General Motors has signed a lease for nearly 340,000 square feet at the former Broadcom campus in Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park, ending...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits 6.1MM SQFT in H1 2026, Best First Half Since 2000 as Vacancy Slides to 30.1%
San Francisco’s office market has strung together its strongest first-half leasing performance in a quarter century, with AI-driven demand pulling vacancy and sublease...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
Berkadia Taps Veteran Multifamily Executive as Chief Revenue Officer to Unify Mortgage Banking and Investment Sales Platforms
Berkadia has appointed a veteran multifamily capital markets executive as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with unifying and scaling the firm’s...
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...
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)...
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...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
Oakland Clears Restructured $125MM Coliseum Sale to AASEG-Loop Capital Venture, Carving Off Arena for Oak View Group
Oakland has rewritten the terms of its landmark Coliseum sale to let the buyer break off the Arena and flip it to a...
Redwood City Sends Sweeping Rent-Control Measure to November Ballot, Rattling Peninsula Landlords
A citizen-led rent-control initiative backed by Faith in Action Bay Area has qualified for Redwood City’s November ballot, setting up a costly showdown...
Caltrans’ $511MM Fix 50 Corridor Project Nears Finish in Sacramento After $100MM Overrun and Year-Long Delay
Caltrans is closing out its $511.1 million Fix 50 corridor overhaul in Sacramento this month, capping a multiyear rebuild that added carpool lanes...
Oakland Roots to Exit Coliseum After 2026, Betting Its Future on a Waterfront Stadium at Howard Terminal
The Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer clubs will leave the Oakland Coliseum after the 2026 season, redirecting their search toward a club-controlled...
San Jose Moves To Quadruple Neighborhood Density as Housing Fight Heads to City Council
San Jose planners are advancing a once-in-four-years rewrite of the city’s growth blueprint that would open single-family neighborhoods to small apartment buildings and...
Stockton Opens Waterfront City Hall in Rehabbed 110,000 SQFT Towers After Costs Balloon Toward $100MM
Stockton has consolidated its municipal operations into the rehabilitated Waterfront Towers office complex on the city’s deep-water channel, capping an 8½-year conversion project...
San Francisco Clears Environmental Hurdle in $3.4B Bid for PG&E’s Electric Grid
San Francisco’s planning commission has certified the environmental review required to pursue a public takeover of PG&E’s local electric grid, advancing a $3.4...
