Rhoda AI Signs 71,000 SQFT Sunnyvale Lease at 600 W. California
With $450 million in the bank and a lease nearly three times its former Mountain View footprint, Rhoda AI is making a physical...
Daytom Enterprises Lists 131,000 SQFT FoodMaxx-Anchored Blackstone-Barstow Center in Fresno for $17.5MM
Solana Beach-based Daytom Enterprises has put its fully wrapped, 97 percent-leased Blackstone-Barstow Center on the market in Fresno, testing investor appetite for discount-grocery...
Northern California Hotel Construction Jumps 28% in First Half of 2026 Even as Openings Slow
With San Francisco posting the nation’s fastest RevPAR growth at plus 31 percent and Northern California construction projects jumping 28 percent, the region’s...
SF Planning Grants Final Approval for Keller Grover’s 23-Story, 201-Unit Tower at 1965 Market Street
Armed with three state housing laws and a corner lot that San Francisco’s old approval machine would have tied up for years, Keller...
Site Centers Corp. Pays $18.2MM for Two Fully Leased Sacramento-Area Shopping Centers
With Sacramento retail cap rates compressing 180 basis points in a single year and fully leased suburban corners fetching prices well above the...
Lenders File Foreclosure Notice on 56-Unit Parkmerced Phase 1 in San Francisco as $101MM Loan Balloons to $199MM
A $101 million loan on a 56-unit sliver of San Francisco’s largest apartment complex has grown to $199 million in unpaid debt —...
Taylor Morrison Sells 139-Lot Wildhawk Land Package to Millrose Properties for $21.5MM in Sacramento County
As Sacramento’s spring buying season peaks, Taylor Morrison turned 139 Wildhawk lots into a $21.5 million land banking transaction with Millrose Properties while...
West Sacramento Outpaces the County as Yolo Assessment Roll Climbs to Record $41.2 Billion
West Sacramento vaulted to the top of Yolo County’s growth rankings for the first time in ten years as the county’s 2026 assessment...
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,...
Sunset Development Selects Lennar to Build 255-Home Canopy at Bishop Ranch as Campus Advances 8,000-Home Transformation
27-Acre Office Building Site to Become a Walkable Neighborhood, Construction to Begin in 2027 San Ramon, Calif. (July 6, 2026) – Sunset Development...
SMART Eyes Geyserville Station as Midpoint Play to Fund 18-Mile Cloverdale Rail Extension
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit is advancing a proposal to build a passenger station in the unincorporated Wine Country community of Geyserville, a move...
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...
Northern California Hotel Construction Jumps 28% in First Half of 2026 Even as Openings Slow
With San Francisco posting the nation’s fastest RevPAR growth at plus 31 percent and Northern California construction projects jumping 28 percent, the region’s...
West Sacramento Outpaces the County as Yolo Assessment Roll Climbs to Record $41.2 Billion
West Sacramento vaulted to the top of Yolo County’s growth rankings for the first time in ten years as the county’s 2026 assessment...
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,...
SMART Eyes Geyserville Station as Midpoint Play to Fund 18-Mile Cloverdale Rail Extension
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit is advancing a proposal to build a passenger station in the unincorporated Wine Country community of Geyserville, a move...
Labor Force Participation Sinks to 61.5%, a 50-Year Low as Prime-Age Workers Exit
A sweeping retreat from the U.S. workforce pushed labor force participation to its lowest level in half a century outside the pandemic, with...
Muni’s Weekend Ridership Tops Pre-Pandemic Levels, Signaling Downtown San Francisco’s Turn
San Francisco’s transit numbers just cleared a psychological threshold that landlords and civic boosters have been chasing for five years, with weekend Muni...
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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...
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Rhoda AI Signs 71,000 SQFT Sunnyvale Lease at 600 W. California
With $450 million in the bank and a lease nearly three times its former Mountain View footprint, Rhoda AI is making a physical...
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...
$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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
California Strips Brisbane of Local Control After City Misses Rezoning Deadline on 660-Acre Baylands Project
State housing regulators have decertified the San Mateo County city of Brisbane after it failed to rezone the sprawling Baylands redevelopment on time,...
Labor Force Participation Sinks to 61.5%, a 50-Year Low as Prime-Age Workers Exit
A sweeping retreat from the U.S. workforce pushed labor force participation to its lowest level in half a century outside the pandemic, with...
Muni’s Weekend Ridership Tops Pre-Pandemic Levels, Signaling Downtown San Francisco’s Turn
San Francisco’s transit numbers just cleared a psychological threshold that landlords and civic boosters have been chasing for five years, with weekend Muni...
Four-Month-Old Global Stack Pitches Data Center, Garage and Vertiport at Calistoga Fairgrounds, Draws Near-Unanimous Opposition
A newly formed Santa Ana company is courting more than 70 California fairgrounds with a plan to layer edge data centers, multi-level parking...
Harvard’s 2026 Housing Report Signals a Demand-Side Reckoning as Household Growth Slows and Sales Freeze at 30-Year Lows
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies warns that the housing market’s central problem is shifting from a supply-and-price shock to a broad weakening...
Bay Area Housing Already Runs Hot on AI Money, and the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs Are the Larger Wave Still to Come
San Francisco’s housing market has already repriced on artificial intelligence wealth, pushing the median single-family home to a record $2.15 million, and the...
Charles Shaw’s Former Benessere Vineyards Lands $10.15MM Buyer as 42-Acre Napa Estate Clears No-Reserve Auction in St. Helena
The 42-acre St. Helena vineyard estate once tied to Trader Joe’s “Two Buck Chuck” has found a buyer at $10.15 million through a...
Raintree Partners Buys Fully Entitled 262-Unit South San Francisco Development Site for $17MM
Raintree Partners has closed on the fully entitled 262-unit multifamily development site at 1477 Huntington Avenue in South San Francisco, acquiring the shovel-ready...
