LS Power Breaks Ground on $2B Transmission Expansion to Feed Silicon Valley’s Power-Hungry Growth
The Fremont-anchored Power the Bay initiative will add one gigawatt of capacity as AI, manufacturing and electrification strain the regional grid. LS Power...
San José Lines Up $6.25MM Waiver to Jumpstart Hanover’s 372-Unit Seely Tower
The City Council will weigh tax and fee relief on June 23 for the next phase of a 1,430-unit North San José master...
John Hancock Backs Seagate’s $45MM Bet on a 130,000-SQFT Marin Retail Center
A three-decade owner refinances its grocery-anchored San Rafael property as institutional money pours back into necessity retail. A San Rafael shopping center that...
CIM Group Lands $63MM Refinancing on Oceanfront Monterey Beach Hotel
The whole loan recapitalizes a 192-room Central Coast resort as CIM doubles down on a hospitality lending strategy launched in 2023. CIM Group...
Sana’a Cafe Backfills Starbucks Boxes, Lines Up Nationwide Franchise Push by Late 2026
The Hayward-based Yemeni coffee chain has secured more than 30 leases across two states and is courting franchisees in four others, betting that...
Alere Property Group Acquires 95,000 SQFT Union City Industrial Building for $26.2MM
The California-based industrial specialist clinches a JLL-listed asset at a modest premium to assessed value, deepening its East Bay footprint. An entity led...
Autodesk Walks Away from 109,000 SQFT One Market Plaza Lease in San Francisco
The software firm’s June exit lifts available space at the Rithm- and Blackstone-owned complex above one-third, even as new leasing interest builds and...
Realty Income Buys 90,700 SQFT San Leandro Industrial Building for $26.7MM
The San Diego net-lease REIT bets on East Bay logistics fundamentals at a price that signals investor conviction even as regional vacancy keeps...
Silver Lake-Backed Oak View Group Pursues $100MM Oakland Arena Buy in Restructured Coliseum Deal
Private equity-backed venue operator emerges as the undisclosed Arena Buyer in a non-binding term sheet that recasts the long-stalled sale of the 155-acre...
California Jobs Engine Stalls in April as Unemployment Holds at 5.3%
The state shed 3,300 nonfarm payroll jobs even as a sixth straight monthly drop in the unemployed pool pointed to a labor market...
Transnational Management Buys 88,000 SQFT Kohl’s Site in Gilroy Crossing for $12.6MM
Transnational Management adds a longtime South Bay department store to a national retail buying spree as Farallon and Raider Hill trim their stake...
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 2025...
San José Lines Up $6.25MM Waiver to Jumpstart Hanover’s 372-Unit Seely Tower
The City Council will weigh tax and fee relief on June 23 for the next phase of a 1,430-unit North San José master...
Silver Lake-Backed Oak View Group Pursues $100MM Oakland Arena Buy in Restructured Coliseum Deal
Private equity-backed venue operator emerges as the undisclosed Arena Buyer in a non-binding term sheet that recasts the long-stalled sale of the 155-acre...
California Jobs Engine Stalls in April as Unemployment Holds at 5.3%
The state shed 3,300 nonfarm payroll jobs even as a sixth straight monthly drop in the unemployed pool pointed to a labor market...
Bay Area Transit Tax Measure Clinches November Ballot Spot, Setting Up $980MM Funding Fight
Connect Bay Area submitted more than 305,000 signatures for SB 63’s five-county sales tax, but business and taxpayer groups are already mobilizing against...
San Francisco Hands Control of Hunters Point Shipyard Parks to City Agencies in 66-Year Pact
The Board of Supervisors clears the way for Rec and Parks and the Arts Commission to manage 26 acres of open space at...
Northern California Construction Splits: San Jose Adds 3,900 Jobs as Sacramento Sheds 3,700
The Bay Area’s AI-driven build cycle is concentrating construction hiring in Silicon Valley even as Sacramento posts one of the nation’s largest absolute...
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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...
Continue ReadingSana’a Cafe Backfills Starbucks Boxes, Lines Up Nationwide Franchise Push by Late 2026
The Hayward-based Yemeni coffee chain has secured more than 30 leases across two states and is courting franchisees in four others, betting that...
Harvest Properties, Lone Star Recapitalize 360,000 SQFT 600 California Tower in San Francisco
A coordinated foreclosure-and-joint-venture play hands the long-troubled Financial District trophy to fresh sponsorship as the city’s top-tier office market stirs back to life....
Helios Real Estate Partners Lists Cursor’s San Francisco HQ Less Than a Year After $9.5MM Buy
JLL is marketing the 35,562-SQFT North Waterfront building leased to the AI coding platform through December 2029. Helios Real Estate Partners is taking...
Bay Club Acquires San Francisco City Block Totaling +150,000 SQFT for $65MM
After Nearly 50 Years as a Tenant, Bay Club Secures Permanent Ownership of Its Founding San Francisco Location SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2026...
Rubicon Point Partners Lands Shockwave Medical’s 200,000 SQFT Santa Clara R&D Campus for $87.2MM in Opening Salvo of Billion-Dollar West Coast Push
The San Francisco-based investment firm secures a four-building, 12.86-acre campus fully NNN leased to a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, signaling an aggressive new...
Meta Pulls the Plug on 1.6MM SQFT Willow Village in Menlo Park, Halting Silicon Valley’s Most Ambitious Corporate Campus
The 59-acre Menlo Park mega-project, first envisioned a decade ago to house 7,000 employees, joins a growing list of casualties as the tech...
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...
Orange Buensuceso Promoted to Director of San Francisco at FPBA
Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects (FPBA) has promoted Orange Buensuceso, AIA, LEED AP, to Director of San Francisco, a milestone that takes on added...
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...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
The Buyer Who Wasn’t There
The record gap between home sellers and buyers reveals a tale of two Americas—Sun Belt markets drowning in oversupply while Northern cities with...
Feed the Machine: AI Could Unjam San Francisco’s 280-Day Permitting Nightmare
The city knows its building codes better than anyone. The problem is it takes 280 days to prove it. What if a computer...
Osaka Marketplace Lands 5,000 SQFT Konbini Concept in Former Muji Space in Downtown San Jose
Sakura Market backfills a retail box that has sat dark since 2020, joining a wave of Asian food operators capitalizing on soft Bay...
Bay Area Transit Tax Measure Clinches November Ballot Spot, Setting Up $980MM Funding Fight
Connect Bay Area submitted more than 305,000 signatures for SB 63’s five-county sales tax, but business and taxpayer groups are already mobilizing against...
336-Unit The Fay in San Jose Acquired for $175MM in Post-Foreclosure Bet
A discounted purchase paired with a city-subsidized leasing program aims to rescue a downtown tower that opened to acclaim, then nearly half-emptied. Two...
DPI Retail Buys 36,000 SQFT Museum Parc for $19.25MM in San Francisco’s SoMa District
JLL Capital Markets arranges sale of fully leased retail and office asset below luxury residences SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2026 – JLL Capital Markets...
Friendship House to Break Ground on Six-Story, $84MM Native American Housing Project in San Francisco’s Mission
The Village SF, a transitional housing and cultural hub at 80 Julian Ave., closes in on its capital target after a $31.4MM state...
Quarterra’s 500-Unit Emery in Emeryville Hits the Market as Part of 3,746-Unit National Listing
The former Sherwin Williams paint factory site is the largest asset by unit count in a 10-property portfolio JLL is marketing as Lennar’s...
Steel Bridge Capital Updates Plans for 16-Home Infill in Palo Alto
The updated proposal adds a unit to a previously filed plan and advances despite resident concerns about fire risk in the foothills A...
Bay Area Billionaires to Fund Half of $40MM Embarcadero Plaza Redesign in San Francisco
Crankstart and the newly formed Downtown Development Corp are pledging $20 million combined toward the public space overhaul, anchoring a public-private partnership that...
