Beacon Capital Partners Sells 241,000 SQFT RATIO Innovation Campus in Emeryville for $63.5MM, Half Its 2020 Price
Beacon Capital Partners has offloaded the two-building RATIO Innovation Campus in Emeryville for $63.5 million, less than half what it paid in late...
Seven Equity Group Selected to Buy Shuttered 1.5MM SQFT San Francisco Centre
New York-based Seven Equity Group, a specialist in repositioning distressed retail, has been selected to buy the vacant San Francisco Centre on Market...
San Francisco Class B Office Effective Rents Jump 15%, Outpacing Class A as Mid-Tier Space Leads Q3 Absorption
Mid-tier office buildings outran San Francisco's top towers in the third quarter, with Class B effective rents climbing 15 percent year over year...
Swift Real Estate Defaults on $194MM Loan Tied to 572,000 SQFT 1111 Broadway Tower in Oakland
A notice of default on the 24-story Class A tower lets Brookfield’s lending affiliate choose between a workout and a takeover, in a...
oWow Supersizes Pill Hill Plan to 20-Story, 334-Unit Affordable Tower in Oakland, Backed by $110.4MM Tax-Credit Deal
Oakland developer oWow has filed to remake a triangular Pill Hill parking lot at 3403 Piedmont Avenue into a 20-story tower with 334...
Peak Energy Raises $108MM to Scale 183,000 SQFT Sodium-Ion Battery Factory in Sacramento
Peak Energy, a Burlingame-based maker of grid-scale sodium-ion batteries, has raised $108 million to ramp up production at the Sacramento factory it leased...
Nibbi Lands $45MM SFO Security Infrastructure Overhaul, Its Second Airport Win in Six Weeks
San Francisco International Airport has picked Bay Area general contractor Nibbi to lead the roughly $45 million second phase of its Airport Security...
Tidewater Capital Buys Vacant 137,000 SQFT Northpoint Plaza, Birthplace of Cost Plus, for $21MM in San Francisco
Tidewater Capital has picked up Northpoint Plaza, the shuttered Fisherman's Wharf office and retail complex where Cost Plus opened its first store, for...
Alexandria’s 44-Acre Tanforan Redevelopment Heads Toward San Bruno City Council Vote With Up to 1,514 Homes
Alexandria Real Estate Equities’ plan to replace the Shops at Tanforan with a transit-oriented neighborhood is nearing a final vote, four years after...
Contra Costa County Breaks Ground on 384-Unit Orbisonia Village and 21,000 SQFT Bay Point Library
More than 20 years after the county’s former redevelopment agency began assembling the site, state, county and federal funding is in place for...
Oklahoma Family Office Snowmass Creek Capital Buys Sonoma Coast’s 46-Room Timber Cove Resort for $37.4MM
The 1960s A-frame resort, renovated in 2016 and once a retreat for Ansel Adams, sells as Sonoma County hotel occupancy climbs 6.4 percent...
Hacienda Edges Vacancy Below 18% as Pleasanton Campus Builds Momentum Into Year-End
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to demonstrate steady leasing performance during the third quarter of 2026, supported by declining vacancy, positive...
San Francisco Class B Office Effective Rents Jump 15%, Outpacing Class A as Mid-Tier Space Leads Q3 Absorption
Mid-tier office buildings outran San Francisco's top towers in the third quarter, with Class B effective rents climbing 15 percent year over year...
San Francisco Leads AI Office Demand as East Bay Requirements Jump 130%, VTS Finds
VTS's latest count of artificial intelligence tenants shows new AI office requirements up 27 percent nationally over the past year, with San Francisco...
Transfer Taxes, Trust Funds and CEQA: The Nov. 3 Ballot Measures Bay Area Developers Are Watching
With ballots already in voters' hands, a slate of Nov. 3 measures, from a San Francisco change to how foreclosed commercial property is...
Milpitas Office Vacancy Tops 20% Even as AI Hardware Firms Hunt for Power-Ready R&D Space
Office vacancy in Milpitas edged above 20 percent over the past year despite the city's relatively small inventory, Marcus & Millichap reports, a...
West Coast Office Leasing Surges 51% as Texas Cools, Savills Data Shows
The five California markets Savills tracks leased 15.9 million square feet of office space in the third quarter, up 51 percent from a...
San Francisco Hits 10 Quarters Without New Office Construction as Related’s 390,000 SQFT The Jackson Lines Up to Break Ground
San Francisco has gone 10 straight quarters without a single square foot of office space delivered or under construction, and Related California's 41-story...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hacienda Edges Vacancy Below 18% as Pleasanton Campus Builds Momentum Into Year-End
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to demonstrate steady leasing performance during the third quarter of 2026, supported by declining vacancy,...
Continue ReadingSan Francisco Class B Office Effective Rents Jump 15%, Outpacing Class A as Mid-Tier Space Leads Q3 Absorption
Mid-tier office buildings outran San Francisco's top towers in the third quarter, with Class B effective rents climbing 15 percent year over year...
Robotics Leasing Blows Past 5MM SQFT in 2026, Tripling JLL’s Bay Area Forecast
JLL's top Northwest researcher bet that robotics companies would lease at least 1.5 million square feet this year, but the physical AI sector...
Zoox Leases PGIM’s 354,000 SQFT LogistiCenter in Hayward, More Than Doubling Its Clawiter Road Footprint
Amazon-owned Zoox has taken both buildings at PGIM's LogistiCenter at Highway 92 in Hayward, a 353,653-square-foot commitment that puts three of the robotaxi...
Savills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
Savills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
Thornberg Warns Bay Area Housing Faces ‘Bust Side’ as Mortgage Rates Climb Past 7%
Speaking at Star One Credit Union's third annual Bay Area Real Estate Forecast in Campbell, Beacon Economics founder Christopher Thornberg argued that an...
RCG Ventures Taps Brixton Capital’s Michael McFadden as Western Region Director of Acquisitions
Atlanta-based shopping center investor RCG Ventures has hired Michael McFadden away from Brixton Capital as director of acquisitions for its Western Region, adding...
JLL Names Capital Markets Chief Mark Gibson Its First U.S. Country CEO, Taps Kevin MacKenzie as Successor
JLL has elevated Mark Gibson, the former HFF chief who has run its Americas capital markets business for seven years, into a newly...
HR&A Advisors Adds Former Biden White House Aide David Eichenthal to Sharpen Public Budget Practice
HR&A Advisors has brought on David Eichenthal, a veteran of the Biden White House, the U.S. Treasury and city finance offices from New...
Pacific Industrial Taps Link Logistics Veteran Bud Pharris as CEO to Drive Western U.S. Expansion
Long Beach-based developer Pacific Industrial has hired Bud Pharris, who ran Blackstone-owned Link Logistics' nine-market West Region, as chief executive officer to steer...
Woodmont Real Estate Services Taps Lilian Betancourt Norlin as Commercial Regional Manager for Peninsula, South Bay Portfolio
Belmont-based Woodmont Real Estate Services has hired Lilian Betancourt Norlin as a commercial regional manager, handing her a mix of office, industrial and...
Salad Days Are Over: Why Protein and Caffeine Are Winning the Restaurant Real Estate Race
By John Cumbelich October 5, 2026 – True Food Kitchen files for bankruptcy. Is anyone shocked by the news that yet another salad...
Dinked: Have We Hit Peak Pickleball?
The Picklr’s Chapter 11 filing, driven by lease guarantees on roughly 40 franchise locations, may be the first sign that indoor pickleball’s real...
McNellis: Real Estate Beyond the Basics
A mortgage broker heard our talk to Menlo College students and wrote back with a sharper point: in commercial real estate, the real...
The Exit for the Rent-Capped Building
Prop 13 keeps him in. Rent control starves him. Prop 19 took away the ending he was counting on. There's a third door,...
The First Footprints in the Snow
AI's hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who's in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
San Francisco Leads AI Office Demand as East Bay Requirements Jump 130%, VTS Finds
VTS's latest count of artificial intelligence tenants shows new AI office requirements up 27 percent nationally over the past year, with San Francisco...
ACORE-Held $34.3MM Non-Performing Loan on Shuttered 172-Room Former Moxy Oakland Uptown Hits the Market
A defaulted $34.3 million mortgage on the former Moxy Oakland Uptown is up for sale, offering investors a path to a 2021-built, 172-room...
Sunnyvale Opens First Branch Library, a $29.3MM, 20,000 SQFT Shared-Use Hub in City’s North End
After a six-year run from concept approval to ribbon-cutting and nearly three years of slipped deadlines, Sunnyvale will open the Lakewood Branch Library...
Kaiser Permanente’s 187,000 SQFT Comprehensive Care Center Breaks Ground in Folsom
Kaiser Permanente has broken ground on a 187,000-square-foot comprehensive care center at its Folsom medical campus. The investment, in the hundreds of millions...
Fireworks AI to Lease 105,000 SQFT at Former Snowflake HQ in San Mateo, Expanding Nearly Fivefold
The former Medallia and Snowflake headquarters at 400|450 Concar gets a new anchor as AI firms account for roughly 39 percent of active...
Transfer Taxes, Trust Funds and CEQA: The Nov. 3 Ballot Measures Bay Area Developers Are Watching
With ballots already in voters' hands, a slate of Nov. 3 measures, from a San Francisco change to how foreclosed commercial property is...
Two More Hotels, Including 108-Room Capitol Parq, Proposed at Sacramento’s Metro Air Park as Roadwork Lags
Sacramento County is reviewing a 108-room Capitol Parq Hotel and a larger Comfort Inn at Metro Air Park, where no hotel has broken...
Milpitas Office Vacancy Tops 20% Even as AI Hardware Firms Hunt for Power-Ready R&D Space
Office vacancy in Milpitas edged above 20 percent over the past year despite the city's relatively small inventory, Marcus & Millichap reports, a...