Yerba Buena Sheds 78,000 SQFT, Vacancy Hits 63.9% as San Francisco’s AI Office Recovery Passes It By
The submarket wrapped around Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens was the only core San Francisco office district to lose occupancy in the...
AI Tenants Push San Francisco Trophy Office Rents Toward $180 as ‘Flight to Experience’ Takes Hold
On the latest episode of CBRE's The Weekly Take podcast, Presidio Bay founder Cyrus Sanandaji and CBRE's Conor Famulener argued that San Francisco's...
Regal-Leased 50,000 SQFT Cinema at Fresno’s Marketplace at El Paseo Hits Market for $19.72MM at 8.1% Cap
A five-year-old Regal multiplex anchoring the second phase of northwest Fresno's Marketplace at El Paseo has been put up for sale at an...
Office Properties Income Trust Sells 63,000 SQFT 100 Redwood Shores Parkway in Redwood City for $16.5MM, 64% Below Assessed Value
A restructured Office Properties Income Trust has unloaded a mostly empty four-story Class A building in Redwood Shores for about a third of...
LBA Logistics Pays $15MM for 52,000 SQFT Industrial Building in Union City
LBA Logistics paid $15 million, or about $286 per square foot, for a 52,476-square-foot industrial building at 2910 Faber St. in Union City,...
The Atrium, 74,000 SQFT Multi-Tenant Pleasanton Office Near BART, Hits Market for $15MM
The owner of The Atrium, a 55-tenant office building across from Stoneridge Shopping Center, is asking $15 million for the 96 percent occupied...
Undisclosed Tenant Signs 154,000 SQFT R&D Lease at 2020-2040 Williams Street, East Bay’s Largest of Q3, in San Leandro
An unnamed occupier has committed to 154,000 square feet of research and development space along San Leandro's Williams Street industrial corridor, a single...
Global Net Lease Takes 21,000 SQFT Labcorp Lab at 1031 Bing Street in San Carlos From Modiv Industrial for About $22.7MM
A 20,800-square-foot Labcorp research facility at 1031 Bing Street in San Carlos changed hands from Modiv Industrial to Global Net Lease at roughly...
Bay Area Power Center Occupancy Hits 94.52% as East Bay Leads Q3 Leasing Gains
Occupancy across the Bay Area's 25 flagship power centers climbed to 94.52 percent in the third quarter of 2026, its strongest reading since...
University of California Acquires 261-Room Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay for $193MM From Strategic Hotels
The University of California's investment office has taken over the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay for $193 million, closing a two-decade run of Wall...
Project Uris Buys 75,000 SQFT 47 Kearny and 165 Post in San Francisco’s Union Square for $19.6MM
Uris Acquisitions, the Union Square buying vehicle of Ian Jacobs and Max Raskin, paid a combined $19.6 million for two family-held office and...
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...
Yerba Buena Sheds 78,000 SQFT, Vacancy Hits 63.9% as San Francisco’s AI Office Recovery Passes It By
The submarket wrapped around Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens was the only core San Francisco office district to lose occupancy in the...
AI Tenants Push San Francisco Trophy Office Rents Toward $180 as ‘Flight to Experience’ Takes Hold
On the latest episode of CBRE's The Weekly Take podcast, Presidio Bay founder Cyrus Sanandaji and CBRE's Conor Famulener argued that San Francisco's...
Bay Area Power Center Occupancy Hits 94.52% as East Bay Leads Q3 Leasing Gains
Occupancy across the Bay Area's 25 flagship power centers climbed to 94.52 percent in the third quarter of 2026, its strongest reading since...
Rate Spike Forces D.R. Horton to Take $91.4MM Hit on Completed Multifamily Projects
A surge in interest rates during the September quarter forced D.R. Horton to take $91.4 million in impairments on nine finished apartment communities,...
At 90, The Swig Company Bets on Move-In-Ready Space as San Francisco Office Demand Returns
As The Swig Company marks 90 years in business, President and Chief Executive Officer Connor Kidd says San Francisco's office recovery is being...
Research Institutions Drive 31% of Alexandria’s Q3 Leasing After Court Blocks NIH Overhead Cap
Universities and nonprofit research institutes signed nearly a third of Alexandria Real Estate Equities' third-quarter leases after a federal appeals court struck down...
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From Lease Up to Stabilization
Woodmont Real Estate Services’ Michelle Widjaja and Jeff Bosshard explain why reaching 95% occupancy quickly matters to owners and lenders, and how...
Continue ReadingYerba Buena Sheds 78,000 SQFT, Vacancy Hits 63.9% as San Francisco’s AI Office Recovery Passes It By
The submarket wrapped around Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens was the only core San Francisco office district to lose occupancy in the...
BizLink Group Expands With 27,000 SQFT Lease at 668 Mission Court in Fremont as Power Becomes the Deciding Factor
Electronics manufacturer BizLink Group has taken another 27,000 square feet at 668 Mission Court in Fremont's Mission Corporate Center, staying inside the same...
WeWork Report: San Francisco Members Up 8%, Enterprises Up 11% as AI Fuels Flex Demand
WeWork's mid-year analysis of its global membership found San Francisco added member companies faster than any other major market in its network, with...
Hashi Market Opens 21,000 SQFT Cupertino Store as Bay Area Asian Grocery Race Heats Up
After more than a year of delays, New York-based Japanese grocer Hashi Market opened its first West Coast store on Oct. 9 in...
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...
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...
GSA Taps Cushman & Wakefield’s Mark Weiss to Run Public Buildings Service as Richmond, Santa Rosa Federal Buildings Await Buyers
Mark S. Weiss, a 42-year New York office broker and executive vice chairman at Cushman & Wakefield, will take over the federal government's...
Meridian Commercial’s James Schultz Earns Basin Street Properties’ Q3 Broker of the Quarter Honor
Basin Street Properties names Meridian Commercial’s James Schultz its Q3 2026 Broker of the Quarter for his North Bay leasing work.
Skyline Construction Taps Google and Qualcomm Campus Builder Steve Dunne to Lead Northern California Growth
Employee-owned general contractor Skyline Construction has brought veteran Silicon Valley builder Steve Dunne aboard as senior project executive, adding nearly four decades of...
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...
Salad Days Are Over: Why Protein and Caffeine Are Winning the Restaurant Real Estate Race
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.
Block Puts Entire 361,000 SQFT Uptown Station Headquarters in Oakland on the Sublease Market
Seven months after cutting nearly half its workforce, payments company Block has put every office floor it leases at Oakland's Uptown Station on...
Hudson Pacific Raises 2026 Outlook on Bay Area Leasing, but $218MM Q3 Loss Pushes 19-Quarter Losing Streak to $1.56B
Hudson Pacific Properties pushed in-service office occupancy to 85.6 percent and raised its full-year earnings outlook on the strength of Bay Area leasing...
Rate Spike Forces D.R. Horton to Take $91.4MM Hit on Completed Multifamily Projects
A surge in interest rates during the September quarter forced D.R. Horton to take $91.4 million in impairments on nine finished apartment communities,...
Millrose, New Home Co. Carve First Lots Out of $44.3MM Sunnyvale Housing Site Option
A Millrose Properties affiliate and The New Home Company's Northern California arm have pulled three newly mapped lots out of the option agreement...
At 90, The Swig Company Bets on Move-In-Ready Space as San Francisco Office Demand Returns
As The Swig Company marks 90 years in business, President and Chief Executive Officer Connor Kidd says San Francisco's office recovery is being...
Research Institutions Drive 31% of Alexandria’s Q3 Leasing After Court Blocks NIH Overhead Cap
Universities and nonprofit research institutes signed nearly a third of Alexandria Real Estate Equities' third-quarter leases after a federal appeals court struck down...
Thermal Battery Maker Antora Energy Lands Prologis’ 294,000 SQFT Milpitas Building Sought by Tech Rivals
Antora Energy, the San Jose thermal battery maker flush with a $550 million Series C, has leased Prologis’ newly completed 294,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing...
Kilroy Says San Francisco’s Big Blocks Are Vanishing as Bay Area Carries Its 815,000 SQFT Third Quarter
Kilroy Realty's San Francisco Bay Area portfolio climbed to 82.7 percent leased in the third quarter on a 243,000-square-foot Box renewal in Redwood...
