Brookfield Clinches Record $77B Quarter, Pushing Assets Past $1 Trillion
Brookfield Asset Management pulled in a company-record $77 billion during the second quarter of 2026, lifting its assets under management past $1 trillion...
San Francisco Office Demand Hits Highest Level Since 2019 as AI Drives 42% of 2026 Leasing
San Francisco's office market logged its fourth straight quarter of positive absorption at midyear 2026, as a revival of large space requirements, an...
Brisbane Baylands Returns to Planning Commission Aug. 13, Weeks After State Revokes City’s Housing Compliance
Brisbane's Planning Commission will take up the Baylands Specific Plan and Final Environmental Impact Report on Aug. 13, its seventh hearing on the...
Interior Department Denies Gaming Eligibility for Scotts Valley Band’s $700MM Vallejo Casino Resort
The U.S. Department of the Interior has withdrawn the gaming eligibility determination underpinning the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians' $700 million casino...
Blackstone Sells 1.9MM SQFT Sacramento Industrial Portfolio to Blue Rise Ventures and DRA Advisors for ~$245MM
Blackstone sold a 28-building, 1.9 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in Sacramento’s North Natomas submarket to Blue Rise Ventures and DRA Advisors, marking the region’s...
Grocers, Medtail and Coffee Chains Turn Silicon Valley Retail Into a Landlord’s Market
Silicon Valley’s retail landscape has shifted into a landlord’s market, where ethnic grocers, medical users and drive-thru coffee chains are competing over a...
Redwood Beverage Group Leases Entire 237,000 SQFT Building on Carlin Drive in West Sacramento
Nine months after acquiring a shuttered West Sacramento bottling plant that had put more than 350 people out of work, Redwood Beverage Group...
Grocers, Medtail and Coffee Chains Turn Silicon Valley Retail Into a Landlord’s Market
Silicon Valley’s retail landscape has shifted into a landlord’s market, where ethnic grocers, medical users and drive-thru coffee chains are competing over a...
Valley Oak Partners Charts Path to 584-Home Redevelopment of Oracle’s Santa Clara Campus
Valley Oak Partners has laid out a detailed timeline for converting nearly 500,000 square feet of vacant Oracle office space in Santa Clara...
Amazon Renews 300,000 SQFT Lease at 525 Market St. in San Francisco Even as It Shutters Downtown AI Lab
Amazon has agreed to a multi-year extension of its roughly 300,000-square-foot lease at 525 Market St., adding about 30,000 square feet even as...
Oura Acquires Its 56,000 SQFT San Francisco HQ at 500 Pine for $41.5MM
Oura Health converted the full-building lease it signed in January into an outright purchase of 500 Pine Street, paying $41.5 million for the...
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy, positive...
Brookfield Clinches Record $77B Quarter, Pushing Assets Past $1 Trillion
Brookfield Asset Management pulled in a company-record $77 billion during the second quarter of 2026, lifting its assets under management past $1 trillion...
San Francisco Office Demand Hits Highest Level Since 2019 as AI Drives 42% of 2026 Leasing
San Francisco's office market logged its fourth straight quarter of positive absorption at midyear 2026, as a revival of large space requirements, an...
Grocers, Medtail and Coffee Chains Turn Silicon Valley Retail Into a Landlord’s Market
Silicon Valley’s retail landscape has shifted into a landlord’s market, where ethnic grocers, medical users and drive-thru coffee chains are competing over a...
Government and Healthcare Carry Sacramento Office Market as Vacancy Falls to 15.7% and Leasing Drops 28%
Sacramento’s office vacancy declined and absorption turned positive in the second quarter, but every one of the market’s five largest leases went to...
Oura Acquires Its 56,000 SQFT San Francisco HQ at 500 Pine for $41.5MM
Oura Health converted the full-building lease it signed in January into an outright purchase of 500 Pine Street, paying $41.5 million for the...
Microsoft Stretches Data Center, Office Building Depreciation to 25 Years, Reshaping $175B CapEx Plan
The software giant told analysts on its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call that lengthening the accounting life of its global data centers and offices...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy,...
Continue ReadingSan Francisco Office Demand Hits Highest Level Since 2019 as AI Drives 42% of 2026 Leasing
San Francisco's office market logged its fourth straight quarter of positive absorption at midyear 2026, as a revival of large space requirements, an...
Think Surgical Signs 10-Year Lease for 35,000 SQFT Milpitas R&D Office, Halving Its Fremont Footprint
Think Surgical signs a 10-year Milpitas R&D lease, halving its footprint as it exits manufacturing to focus on design.
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,...
Marin County Taps McCarthy Building Companies and COAR Design Group for $71MM Progressive Design-Build Fire Headquarters
County selects McCarthy and COAR for its largest construction investment to date for first-of-its-kind progressive design-build contract Marin County, CA – The Marin...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Microsoft Stretches Data Center, Office Building Depreciation to 25 Years, Reshaping $175B CapEx Plan
The software giant told analysts on its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call that lengthening the accounting life of its global data centers and offices...
Mountain View Shutters Downtown Lot 11 for Five Years to Build $200MM Public Safety Headquarters
Mountain View will take a full downtown parking lot offline for more than five years to make room for a new police and...
TNDC, Chinatown CDC Open 160-Unit, $166MM Affordable Housing Complex on Former Haight-Ashbury McDonald’s Site in San Francisco
The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Chinatown Community Development Center have opened 730 Stanyan, a 160-unit, entirely affordable apartment complex built on the...
Macerich Scraps RH Complex at Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek, Will Subdivide Neiman Marcus Box
Macerich has abandoned the RH luxury retail complex once planned for the vacant Neiman Marcus building at Walnut Creek's Broadway Plaza, with Chief...
Ryder Integrated Logistics Takes Entire 276,000 SQFT Building at Rancho Cordova Logistics Center
Ryder Integrated Logistics has committed to an entire Class A distribution building on the former Aerojet Rocketdyne campus in Rancho Cordova, delivering Sacramento’s...
Silicon Valley Multifamily Rebounds as Rent Growth Outruns Rising Costs and Sales Top $2 Billion
A resurgent apartment market across Silicon Valley’s core submarkets is delivering the strongest rent growth in years, reviving transaction velocity and drawing institutional...
FedEx Buys 211,000 SQFT South San Francisco Warehouse for $94MM
FedEx buys its longtime 211,000 SQFT South San Francisco warehouse for $94 million as Peninsula industrial vacancy tightens.
SFUSD Cuts Ribbon on $129MM, 82,000 SQFT Mission Bay School, San Francisco’s First New Elementary in Two Decades
The San Francisco Unified School District will cut the ribbon on its long-promised Mission Bay School on August 6, capping a $129 million...
