Weekday Workforce in San Francisco’s Financial District Climbs 18% as Return-to-Office Gains Momentum
New cell phone mobility data from JLL shows weekday worker activity across San Francisco’s downtown core jumped 18 percent year-over-year, with the North...
W. P. Carey Launches 67,440 SQFT Speculative Warehouse at 1700 Doolittle Drive in San Leandro
Net lease giant W. P. Carey has started construction on a 67,440-square-foot Class A warehouse and advanced manufacturing building in San Leandro, betting...
Rubicon Point Partners Lists 29,000 SQFT UCSF-Leased Outpatient Facility at 1263 Mission Street in San Francisco
An entity affiliated with San Francisco-based Rubicon Point Partners has put UCSF @ SoMa, a fully leased 28,570-square-foot outpatient facility at 1263 Mission...
60,000 SQFT E-Bike Superstore Planned for Former Citrus Heights Kmart
After cycling through a Kmart, a movie theater that never opened, and a church whose community programs never materialized, the 60,000-square-foot Auburn Boulevard...
Creator Platform Patreon Signs 35,000 SQFT Direct Lease at 180 Howard in San Francisco
The direct lease is located at the former State Bar of California building in San Francisco. Patreon, the membership platform that helps creators...
Mercy Housing Opens 145-Unit 1633 Valencia Senior Housing in San Francisco at Roughly Half the Typical Cost
Mercy Housing California and its partners cut the ribbon on 1633 Valencia, a 145-unit permanent supportive housing community for formerly homeless seniors that...
San Francisco Office Leasing on Pace for 30-Year High as Sublease Glut Recedes
San Francisco’s office market is on track for its strongest leasing year in three decades, as a shrinking sublease overhang, falling vacancy and...
South Bay Wages Hit $198,798 as Apartment Demand Surges and Housing Shortage Squeezes Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County’s economy is expanding even as its job market contracts, a divergence that is keeping wages high, apartment demand red-hot and...
Villara Doubles Down at McClellan Park, Expanding to 240,000 SQFT in Sacramento County
Villara, one of McClellan Park’s longest-running tenants, has taken 80,000 additional square feet at the Sacramento County business park, lifting its total footprint...
State Lines Up $125MM Toward $175MM Golden Gate Fields Acquisition as Conservationists Contest the Source
A push to convert the shuttered Golden Gate Fields racetrack into one of the East Bay’s largest waterfront parks has cleared a major...
San Francisco’s Financial District Lands in U.S. Top 10 for Stickiness as San Jose Trails on Vibrancy, Gensler Finds
San Francisco’s Financial District secured a spot among the 10 stickiest downtowns in the United States in Gensler’s newest global urban study, even...
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 2025...
Weekday Workforce in San Francisco’s Financial District Climbs 18% as Return-to-Office Gains Momentum
New cell phone mobility data from JLL shows weekday worker activity across San Francisco’s downtown core jumped 18 percent year-over-year, with the North...
Mercy Housing Opens 145-Unit 1633 Valencia Senior Housing in San Francisco at Roughly Half the Typical Cost
Mercy Housing California and its partners cut the ribbon on 1633 Valencia, a 145-unit permanent supportive housing community for formerly homeless seniors that...
San Francisco Office Leasing on Pace for 30-Year High as Sublease Glut Recedes
San Francisco’s office market is on track for its strongest leasing year in three decades, as a shrinking sublease overhang, falling vacancy and...
South Bay Wages Hit $198,798 as Apartment Demand Surges and Housing Shortage Squeezes Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County’s economy is expanding even as its job market contracts, a divergence that is keeping wages high, apartment demand red-hot and...
San Francisco’s Financial District Lands in U.S. Top 10 for Stickiness as San Jose Trails on Vibrancy, Gensler Finds
San Francisco’s Financial District secured a spot among the 10 stickiest downtowns in the United States in Gensler’s newest global urban study, even...
Stanford Files Plans for 1.75MM SQFT Cancer Center in Redwood City, the Largest Project in University History
Stanford Medicine this week submitted an updated project description to Redwood City for an integrated cancer hospital, clinic and research complex that would...
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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 ReadingWeekday Workforce in San Francisco’s Financial District Climbs 18% as Return-to-Office Gains Momentum
New cell phone mobility data from JLL shows weekday worker activity across San Francisco’s downtown core jumped 18 percent year-over-year, with the North...
Morningstar Flags $505MM Loan on Meta’s 701,000-SQFT Moffett Towers II Campus in Sunnyvale as Layoffs Mount
Credit analysts have placed the $505 million loan backing Moffett Towers II Buildings 3 and 4 in Sunnyvale under watch after Meta Platforms,...
City of San Francisco Expands 1455 Market St. Lease by 502,000 SQFT in $1B-Plus Deal, the Region’s Largest Since 2018
San Francisco has committed to its largest office lease since 2018, expanding the city government’s footprint at Hudson Pacific Properties’ 1455 Market St....
Hunter Partners’ Alder Creek Marketplace in Folsom Hits 90 Percent Leased with New Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services Leases
Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services commit to new retail center opening in fall 2027 FOLSOM, Calif. (May 14, 2026)— Hunter Partners,...
Rubicon Point Partners Lands Shockwave Medical’s 200,000 SQFT Santa Clara R&D Campus for $87.2MM in Opening Salvo of Billion-Dollar West Coast Push
The San Francisco-based investment firm secures a four-building, 12.86-acre campus fully NNN leased to a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, signaling an aggressive new...
San Francisco Captures 80% of U.S. AI Venture Capital as Office Leasing Snaps Back
AI tenants leased 10.6 million square feet in San Francisco since 2019, equivalent to roughly 15 Salesforce Towers, pushing net absorption to 3.2...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stanford Files Plans for 1.75MM SQFT Cancer Center in Redwood City, the Largest Project in University History
Stanford Medicine this week submitted an updated project description to Redwood City for an integrated cancer hospital, clinic and research complex that would...
Nazareth Enterprises Pays $23.69MM for 67,584-SQFT Kaiser Permanente Medical Office in Rohnert Park
A fully leased, two-tenant medical office building at 5900 State Farm Drive in Rohnert Park has sold for $23.69 million in an off-market...
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Sells Maryknoll Residence on 29.2 Acres in Los Altos for $43MM
The all-cash acquisition of the 40,500-square-foot historic complex at 23000 Cristo Rey Drive — sold by the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America...
Pacific Urban Investors Acquires 76-Unit Saratoga Gardens in San Jose for $28.85MM
Palo Alto-based Pacific Urban Investors has expanded its Silicon Valley holdings with the $28.85 million purchase of Saratoga Gardens, a 76-unit West San...
Developer Eyes 136-Unit Apartment Tower in San Jose’s Garden-Alameda Neighborhood Near SAP Center
The preliminary proposal, filed by a group led by Anthony Ho, would compress 136 apartments into a just-under-half-acre corner lot near Diridon Station...
3.2-Acre Treasure Island Site Entitled for Up to 1,000 Units Hits the Market in San Francisco
A 3.20-acre assemblage on the northeastern edge of Treasure Island has hit the market with entitlements to accommodate up to 1,000 residential units,...
Generative AI Startup Fal.ai Leases 29,000 SQFT at 300 Mission in San Francisco’s Financial District
Generative media infrastructure startup Fal.ai has leased 29,276 square feet at 300 Mission Street, adding another well-funded artificial intelligence tenant to a downtown...
San Francisco Office Leasing on Pace for 30-Year High as Sublease Glut Recedes
San Francisco’s office market is on track for its strongest leasing year in three decades, as a shrinking sublease overhang, falling vacancy and...
