Jonathan Rose Companies Pays $85MM for 150-Unit La Posada Senior Apartments in Santa Cruz
Jonathan Rose Companies’ second Santa Cruz purchase puts a 150-unit senior property into its $660 million preservation fund, which extended a federal rent...
Interstate Equities Acquires 232-Unit The Dylan in Hercules for $83.5MM
Longtime West Coast apartment investor Interstate Equities Corporation has bought a 4-year-old waterfront apartment building in the Hercules Bayfront community, financing the purchase...
Digital Realty Targets $3B for Open-End Hyperscale Data Center Fund as Arkansas Teachers Commits $100MM
Digital Realty is courting roughly $3 billion in cornerstone capital for a permanent, core-plus vehicle built to own stabilized North American hyperscale data...
Ridge Capital Takes 272,000 SQFT 201 California in San Francisco From Columbia Property Trust for $75MM, Backed by $80.1MM Rialto Loan
Ridge Capital Investors closed on the 17-story 201 California Street tower in San Francisco's Financial District for $75 million in July, financing the...
On Ice Rinks Brings 6,000 SQFT Holiday Ice Rink to Port’s Triangle Lot at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco
San Francisco on Ice, which can hold 125 skaters per session, will run from Nov. 4 through Jan. 18 next to the SkyStar...
Owner That Took 132,000 SQFT 2101 Mission From Deutsche Bank Debt Brings Former Thrift Town Building to Market in San Francisco
2101 MS Property Holdings LLC, which acquired Deutsche Bank's position on a loan of up to $75.8 million and took title to the...
Meridian-Linked Owner Markets 100,000 SQFT 1300 South El Camino Real Office Building in San Mateo Seven Years After $61.9MM Buy
Mpvca San Mateo LLC, the Palo Alto-based entity that bought 1300 South El Camino Real from DivcoWest for $61.9 million in 2019, is...
Grosvenor Puts 101,000 SQFT 560 South Winchester Office Building Beside Santana Row Up for Sale After 13-Year Hold in San Jose
Grosvenor Americas is calling for offers on 560 South Winchester, a six-story, LEED Gold office building on the Santana Row block that it...
Kabani Hotel Group CEO Urges Owners to Tighten Risk Controls as 7% Debt, AI and Insurance Costs Mount
Kabani Hotel Group founder Ahmed Kabani is urging hotel owners to tighten risk controls while markets still feel calm, and his seven-point checklist,...
San Francisco Office Sales Hit $2.6B Year to Date as Q3 Prices Split From $232 to $750 Per SQFT
San Francisco office buyers spent $959 million across 16 transactions in the third quarter, bringing 2026 volume to $2.6 billion, but the six...
SFF Realty Partners Buys 416,000 SQFT Zoom-Anchored The Almaden in Downtown San Jose for $82MM
At a reported $197 per square foot, The Almaden traded at about 42 percent below Silicon Valley’s third-quarter average office price, and at...
Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing activity...
Kabani Hotel Group CEO Urges Owners to Tighten Risk Controls as 7% Debt, AI and Insurance Costs Mount
Kabani Hotel Group founder Ahmed Kabani is urging hotel owners to tighten risk controls while markets still feel calm, and his seven-point checklist,...
San Francisco Office Sales Hit $2.6B Year to Date as Q3 Prices Split From $232 to $750 Per SQFT
San Francisco office buyers spent $959 million across 16 transactions in the third quarter, bringing 2026 volume to $2.6 billion, but the six...
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...
Union Square Retail Vacancy Eases to 15% as Uniqlo Returns and $43MM Powell Street Overhaul Nears
San Francisco officials put Union Square's retail vacancy just above 15 percent, down from a pandemic-era peak near 23 percent, yet the district...
Bay Area Holds Half of Nation’s AI Real Estate as San Francisco Tenants Fill 7.1% of Inventory
JLL's 2026 study of artificial intelligence tenants finds the Bay Area holds nearly half of the 34.6 million square feet AI companies occupy...
AI Moves From Pitch Deck to Permit Counter as Bay Area Builders Chase Faster Approvals
As national developers such as AvalonBay, JPI and Wan Bridge wire AI into site selection, design and construction, Bay Area builders and city...
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Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing...
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The Registry Ranks: Where the Bay Area Lab Rebound Will Actually Show Up First
Bay Area life science vacancy sits near 29% and the construction pipeline is at zero, but the pain is wildly uneven. Here is...
The Registry Ranks: We Ranked 13 San Francisco Office Submarkets for Investors. Mission Bay Is the Only S.
San Francisco's office recovery is real, but it is not evenly spread. Some submarkets sit at single-digit vacancy while others have 40%-plus of...
San Francisco Office Leasing Rises 37% in First Half of 2026 as Engineers Remain Top Recruiting Target
A joint analysis by recruiting platform Juicebox and Newmark Research finds San Francisco office leasing up 37 percent in the first half of...
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
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...
Port of Oakland Taps Oakland Native Carl Cade as Chief Real Estate Officer to Lead Waterfront Revitalization
The Port of Oakland has handed control of its real estate portfolio, from Jack London Square to the Oakland Airport Business Park, to...
Hines Hands Reins to Third Generation as Adam Hines Joins Sister Laura Hines-Pierce as Co-CEO
Hines is moving its third generation into full command of the $91 billion global real estate firm, pairing Adam Hines with his sister,...
Newmark Lures Sarah Miller From Cushman & Wakefield to Co-Lead National Seniors Housing Valuation Practice
Newmark has hired veteran appraiser Sarah Miller, MAI, away from Cushman & Wakefield to co-lead its national seniors housing valuation and advisory discipline...
OCMI Sacramento Office Grows with New Staff
New Hires Signify Expansion of OCMI Cost Management in Northern California SACRAMENTO, CA — OCMI is proud to announce the addition of Cheryl...
Architectural Resources Group Names Ariane Fehrenkamp Associate Principal to Grow Design Practice
Architectural Resources Group has hired veteran architect Ariane Fehrenkamp as an associate principal, tasking the two-decade design leader with expanding the San Francisco-based...
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.
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...
Barings Brings Burlingame’s Peninsula Innovation Point Campus, With New 242,000 SQFT Lab and Office Tower, to Market
Barings is marketing Peninsula Innovation Point, a waterfront Burlingame campus it bought for $170 million in 2021 and expanded with an eight-story, 241,679-square-foot...
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...
Replacement Parking Blows $19MM–$45MM Holes in Menlo Park’s Downtown Housing Bids
A Menlo Park–commissioned financial review found that Alliant Communities, Presidio Bay Ventures and a Related California–Alta Housing team each face funding gaps of...
Union Square Retail Vacancy Eases to 15% as Uniqlo Returns and $43MM Powell Street Overhaul Nears
San Francisco officials put Union Square's retail vacancy just above 15 percent, down from a pandemic-era peak near 23 percent, yet the district...
Rockefeller Group’s 442,000 SQFT Black Diamond Industrial Center in Antioch Hits Market for Sale or Lease
Rockefeller Group's completed 441,841-square-foot Black Diamond Industrial Center in Antioch is available for sale or lease, pitched below I-880 rents.
San Francisco Supervisors Approve Amended Development Agreement for Fifth Space’s 29-Acre Power Station in Dogpatch
San Francisco supervisors approve Fifth Space's amended Power Station development agreement, adding flexibility for 2,600 homes in Dogpatch.
DM Development, Ascentris Close on 152-Unit 321 Florida in San Francisco’s Mission With $61.7MM PNC Construction Loan
The project, refined since its 2021 approval, will deliver 152 apartments, 15 of them affordable, in late 2028, as county rents climb 15.7...
Bay Area Holds Half of Nation’s AI Real Estate as San Francisco Tenants Fill 7.1% of Inventory
JLL's 2026 study of artificial intelligence tenants finds the Bay Area holds nearly half of the 34.6 million square feet AI companies occupy...