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...
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...
TODCO Files Plans to Swap SoMa’s Alice Street Community Gardens for 105 Affordable Senior Apartments
Tenants and Owners Development Corporation has filed preliminary plans to build an 80-foot, 105-unit affordable senior rental building on the South of Market...
Oberndorf Real Estate Management, The Bascom Group Acquire 117-Unit Museum Park Apartments in San Jose for $53.1MM
Oberndorf Real Estate Management is making its first California investment in more than a decade, partnering with The Bascom Group to buy Museum...
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 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...
Sacramento Industrial Sales More Than Triple as Market Absorbs 348,000 SQFT
Sacramento's industrial market absorbed nearly 348,000 square feet in the third quarter and nudged vacancy down to 6.1 percent, while investors traded about...
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 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...
TMG Partners, KKR Buy Vacant 435K SQFT Skyport Plaza in San Jose for $75.5MM, Sign 30-Year Lease with Santa Clara County
Two empty office towers in North San Jose formerly occupied by Qualcomm have found a buyer and a tenant at the same time....
Brannan Street Becomes San Francisco’s Big-Deal Hub as SOMA Leads Q3 With 484,000 SQFT Absorbed
With three of the third quarter's six leases of 100,000 square feet or more landing in South of Market, San Francisco's biggest office...
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
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.
Concord Gets Its Green Light From Sacramento as Brisbane Races the Clock on 2,200-Home Baylands Plan
Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature on SB 328 has handed Concord and master developer Brookfield Properties a streamlined path to more than 12,000 homes...
Airbnb Deals Point to 374,000 SQFT at 888 Brannan, Reversing Its Planned Retreat From 850 Brannan
Newmark's third-quarter report lists a confidential 373,903-square-foot renewal and expansion at 888 Brannan St. as San Francisco's largest lease of the quarter, and...
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 Readies $72MM, 300-Bed Behavioral Health Building on Treasure Island
San Francisco plans a $72 million, six-story behavioral health building on Treasure Island with up to 300 beds, with construction set for November.
Gilroy Shelves Sharks Ice Rink at Sports Park After $64MM Cost Estimate Opens $15MM Funding Gap
Gilroy halts its Sharks ice rink plan after costs climbed to about $64 million, leaving a $15 million gap its bonding capacity couldn't...
Hudson Pacific Wins Approval for 162,000 SQFT Housing Conversion at 901 Market Street in San Francisco
San Francisco approves Hudson Pacific’s plan to convert 901 Market Street’s offices into 162,400 SF of housing above 76,370 SF of retail.
Westwood Townhouses, a 42-Unit Hayward Apartment Community, Trades for $10.65MM After Multiple Offers
Westwood Townhouses, a 1960s-era gated townhome community on Hayward's Gading Road, closed at $10.65 million after a competitive bidding process, landing about 11...
Foxconn Unit Q-Edge Buys 110,000 SQFT of Santa Clara R&D Buildings for $55MM
Foxconn unit Q-Edge bought two vacant R&D buildings on Stender Way in Santa Clara for about $55 million, or roughly $500 per square...
