Silicon Valley R&D Vacancy Falls to 12.6% in 2Q26 as Nvidia Breaks Ground and AI Hardware Powers Leasing
Silicon Valley's research-and-development market tightened in the second quarter of 2026 as vacancy fell, net absorption improved and a new Nvidia campus broke...
KLN Management Advances 32,000 SQFT Medical Office Project Near Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose
Campbell-based KLN Management is pressing forward with a four-story medical office and retail building on a compact Fruitdale corner lot, betting on the...
Younger Movers Are Softening California’s Exodus, U-Haul Midyear Data Shows, With the Bay Area Among Their Top Draws
U-Haul's 2026 midyear migration report finds Millennials and Generation Z steering their moving trucks into California even as older generations keep heading for...
City Ventures Wins Approval for 137-Unit Townhome Community on Former Industrial Site in Sunnyvale
The approval turns a vacant 4.44-acre industrial parcel at Kifer Road and Uranium Drive into the first residential project in the far reaches...
California’s Renter Majority Faces Deepening Strain as Bay Area Rents Climb 5.8%
California's renter economy has swelled past 16 million people, and a new statewide tenant snapshot shows affordability pressure intensifying just as the Bay...
Bay Area Jobless Rates Fall as San Jose Leads Northern California Job Growth
Jobless rates fell across the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento over the year ending June 2026 and San Jose led Northern California's...
State of California Renews 42,000 SQFT at 400 R Street in Downtown Sacramento
The State of California has renewed 42,000 square feet at 400 R Street, keeping one of downtown Sacramento’s larger government tenancies in place...
Grocery Outlet Opens 30,000 SQFT Store at Former Fisherman’s Wharf Safeway, Ending North Beach’s 3-Year Grocery Gap
Discount grocer Grocery Outlet has taken over the long-vacant Safeway on Bay Street, restoring a full-size grocery option for roughly 20,000 residents on...
San Leandro-Based Coreshell Technologies Secures $50MM DOE Award to Build Battery Gigafactory
The ward will fund expansion of production capacity, creating more than 100 operational jobs and strengthening U.S. supply chain independence for American mobility...
San Francisco Hospitality Scored Double-Digit Sales Growth During the 2026 World Cup
Bank of America credit and debit card data shows San Francisco's restaurants, bars and hotels captured double-digit small-business sales growth during the 2026...
Vivmark Residential Affiliates Pay $741.8MM for 1,843 Bay Area Apartments in Post-Merger Buying Spree
Vivmark Residential’s affiliates paid $741.8 million for seven Silicon Valley and East Bay apartment complexes bearing AvalonBay’s legacy Avalon and Eaves brands, a...
Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the month...
Silicon Valley R&D Vacancy Falls to 12.6% in 2Q26 as Nvidia Breaks Ground and AI Hardware Powers Leasing
Silicon Valley's research-and-development market tightened in the second quarter of 2026 as vacancy fell, net absorption improved and a new Nvidia campus broke...
Younger Movers Are Softening California’s Exodus, U-Haul Midyear Data Shows, With the Bay Area Among Their Top Draws
U-Haul's 2026 midyear migration report finds Millennials and Generation Z steering their moving trucks into California even as older generations keep heading for...
California’s Renter Majority Faces Deepening Strain as Bay Area Rents Climb 5.8%
California's renter economy has swelled past 16 million people, and a new statewide tenant snapshot shows affordability pressure intensifying just as the Bay...
Bay Area Jobless Rates Fall as San Jose Leads Northern California Job Growth
Jobless rates fell across the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento over the year ending June 2026 and San Jose led Northern California's...
San Francisco Hospitality Scored Double-Digit Sales Growth During the 2026 World Cup
Bank of America credit and debit card data shows San Francisco's restaurants, bars and hotels captured double-digit small-business sales growth during the 2026...
New Federal Housing Law Hands Northern California Fresh Levers on Supply, But Leaves Zoning Untouched
The nation’s first comprehensive federal housing package in decades arms Northern California developers and lenders with new incentives for adaptive reuse, small-dollar lending...
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Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the...
Continue ReadingSilicon Valley R&D Vacancy Falls to 12.6% in 2Q26 as Nvidia Breaks Ground and AI Hardware Powers Leasing
Silicon Valley's research-and-development market tightened in the second quarter of 2026 as vacancy fell, net absorption improved and a new Nvidia campus broke...
Revolution Medicines Bets 700,000 SQFT on Farallon’s Former Google Campus in Redwood City
Revolution Medicines, the fast-growing developer racing toward its first commercial cancer drug, is in advanced talks for roughly 700,000 square feet at Pacific...
Neuralink Extends 48,000 SQFT Fremont Lease at Ardenwood Research Center in Quarter’s Fourth-Largest Life Science Deal
Elon Musk's Neuralink has extended its lease on 48,240 square feet at the Ardenwood Research Center on Paseo Padre Parkway in Fremont, a...
Nevada PERS Nears $62.2MM Acquisition of 62,500 SQFT 1400 Veterans Medical Office Building in Redwood City
A Nevada public pension fund is closing on a Peninsula medical office building as part of an all-cash push to double its real...
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 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,...
Mohr Partners Taps East Bay Veteran Kam Schroeder as First President of Brokerage
Mohr Partners has recruited longtime East Bay broker Kam Schroeder to fill a newly created President of Brokerage post, betting on a 20-year...
Kilroy Realty CFO Jeffrey Kuehling Exits as Eliott Trencher Takes Interim Finance Helm
Kilroy Realty Corporation said Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Kuehling is departing the Los Angeles-based office and life science REIT effective immediately, handing interim...
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...
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to CRE Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
Watch Rents Rise
By John Cumbelich Our firm recently completed a Q2 survey of the region’s 25 flagship Power Centers, in which we reported that occupancy...
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)...
Lennar Advances 1,251-Home Shafter Neighborhood Squarely in California High-Speed Rail’s Path
Homebuilder Lennar has secured tentative Shafter approval for the final phase of its Gossamer Grove community, planting more than 1,200 single-family lots directly...
$67.6MM Refinancing Secured on Jamestown’s 199,000 SQFT Exchange at Larkspur Office Campus in Marin County
Debt-fund lender ACORE Capital has refinanced the three-building, LEED-certified office park that Jamestown assembled near the Larkspur ferry terminal, a vote of confidence...
Bering Capital Partners Buys DuraVent’s 280,000 SQFT Vacaville HQ for $27.4MM
A San Francisco investor bets on heavy power and a decades-long tenant, picking up a fully leased Solano County manufacturing campus well below...
American Healthcare REIT Buys 345-Unit Sonrisa Senior Living in Roseville for $94.1MM
American Healthcare REIT has acquired Sonrisa Senior Living, a 345-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care campus in Roseville, for $94.1 million,...
New Federal Housing Law Hands Northern California Fresh Levers on Supply, But Leaves Zoning Untouched
The nation’s first comprehensive federal housing package in decades arms Northern California developers and lenders with new incentives for adaptive reuse, small-dollar lending...
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Renews 42,000 SQFT at Parkway Corporate Plaza in Roseville
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. has renewed 42,405 square feet at Parkway Corporate Plaza in Roseville, extending a healthcare tenancy that has become...
Cabrillo, UC Santa Cruz and Greystar Advance $181MM, 624-Bed Costa Vista Student Housing in Aptos
A first-in-California partnership between a community college and a University of California campus, the Costa Vista development in Aptos cleared a late-summer financing...
Bay Area Defends No. 1 Tech Talent Rank as AI Absorbs 57% of Its Job Postings
The San Francisco Bay Area again topped CBRE's annual tech talent scorecard even as its overall workforce shrank, with artificial intelligence now driving...
