Archer Aviation Leases Entire 501,000-SQFT Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill to Scale Air Taxi Production
Air taxi maker Archer Aviation has committed to all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s 30-acre Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill, a...
SM Flores Files Plans for 80-Unit, Seven-Story Apartment Project at 2555 Flores Street in San Mateo
A locally based developer is moving to convert an aging San Mateo office parcel into 80 apartments, betting on a Peninsula rental market...
Olema Oncology Leases 38,000 SQFT at Kilroy Oyster Point, Moving Headquarters to South San Francisco
Clinical-stage breast cancer company Olema Oncology has committed to 38,176 square feet at Kilroy Realty’s 365 Oyster Point Boulevard under a seven-year lease,...
San Francisco Warns Developers: Build Stalled Office Projects or Forfeit Prop M Allocations
San Francisco’s planning chief has moved to reclaim dormant office development rights from developers sitting on long-stalled downtown projects, threatening to strip their...
California’s Share of U.S. Export Trade Slips to 8% as Real Shipment Value Falls
California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national...
Fieldwork Brewing Leases 5,370 SQFT Former Presidio Social Club Building, Bringing First Taproom to San Francisco’s National Park Site
The Presidio Trust has landed Fieldwork Brewing Company for the entire restaurant building at 563 Ruger Street, filling a historic barracks that sat...
Pickleball Kingdom Converts 25,159 SQFT Former Joann Store Into Eight-Court Livermore Club
Pickleball Kingdom, the largest indoor pickleball operator in the world, will take over a vacant Joann fabric store in Livermore’s Arroyo Seco Shopping...
Adaptive Reuse in San Francisco: Turning Vacant Offices Into Opportunity
By Michael Strong, Vice President-Project Executive, Skanska USA Across the San Francisco Bay Area, adaptive reuse has shifted from a niche idea to...
San José Airport Traffic Slides 9.9% to 10.7MM Passengers as Master Plan Bets on 16.75MM by 2037
San José Mineta International Airport lost more than 1.1 million passengers in 2025 as carriers consolidated Bay Area operations at San Francisco International,...
Travelers Insurance Anchors 198,000 SQFT Leasing Surge as Walnut Creek Office Market Snaps Two-Year Losing Streak
After ten consecutive quarters of shrinking occupancy, the North I-680 Corridor office market recorded 196,732 square feet of positive net absorption in the...
95,000 SQFT CitiCenter at 1717 Mission Street in San Francisco Traded for $14.9MM
Peter Acworth’s latest San Francisco acquisition arrives at 67 cents on the dollar relative to its 2020 asking price with the addition of...
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...
San Francisco Warns Developers: Build Stalled Office Projects or Forfeit Prop M Allocations
San Francisco’s planning chief has moved to reclaim dormant office development rights from developers sitting on long-stalled downtown projects, threatening to strip their...
California’s Share of U.S. Export Trade Slips to 8% as Real Shipment Value Falls
California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national...
Adaptive Reuse in San Francisco: Turning Vacant Offices Into Opportunity
By Michael Strong, Vice President-Project Executive, Skanska USA Across the San Francisco Bay Area, adaptive reuse has shifted from a niche idea to...
San José Airport Traffic Slides 9.9% to 10.7MM Passengers as Master Plan Bets on 16.75MM by 2037
San José Mineta International Airport lost more than 1.1 million passengers in 2025 as carriers consolidated Bay Area operations at San Francisco International,...
Travelers Insurance Anchors 198,000 SQFT Leasing Surge as Walnut Creek Office Market Snaps Two-Year Losing Streak
After ten consecutive quarters of shrinking occupancy, the North I-680 Corridor office market recorded 196,732 square feet of positive net absorption in the...
Zoom Pledges Downtown Expansion as San José Courts Global Capital With 2 Gigawatts of Power, 30 Percent Cheaper Land
Zoom founder and Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan closed San José’s first International Innovation and Investment Summit by announcing the video conferencing company...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
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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Archer Aviation Leases Entire 501,000-SQFT Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill to Scale Air Taxi Production
Air taxi maker Archer Aviation has committed to all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s 30-acre Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill, a...
Bay Area Life Sciences Vacancy Jumps to 26.2% as Pfizer Vacates 164,000 SQFT at Oyster Point and Emeryville Land Sells for Half Its 2019 Price
The San Francisco Bay Area’s life sciences vacancy rate climbed 310 basis points year over year to 26.2 percent as more than 500,000...
Zoom Pledges Downtown Expansion as San José Courts Global Capital With 2 Gigawatts of Power, 30 Percent Cheaper Land
Zoom founder and Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan closed San José’s first International Innovation and Investment Summit by announcing the video conferencing company...
$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...
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...
Berkadia Taps Veteran Multifamily Executive as Chief Revenue Officer to Unify Mortgage Banking and Investment Sales Platforms
Berkadia has appointed a veteran multifamily capital markets executive as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with unifying and scaling the firm’s...
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...
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...
Dwight Mortgage Trust Lands Record $183MM Construction Loan for 530-Unit Park 315 Multifamily Project in Gilroy
Dwight Mortgage Trust closed the largest construction loan in its history to bankroll a 530-unit multifamily community on 27 acres of empty land...
New Community Baptist Church Acquires 31,300 SQFT R&D Building at 850 N. Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View for $16.5MM
A Mountain View religious organization has purchased the first building to sell out of a foreclosed Silicon Valley tech campus, acquiring an adjacent...
Presidio Bay & Bridges Capital Close on $70MM Debt Buy at 208,000 SQFT 301 Battery in San Francisco, Move to Foreclose on RFR
Presidio Bay Ventures and Bridges Capital have closed on the nonperforming $100 million loan secured by San Francisco’s former Federal Reserve Bank building...
Trust Exposure on San Francisco Centre Hits $351MM as Presidio Bay, Prado Group Abandon 1.5MM-SQFT Redevelopment Weeks Before Loan Maturity
Loan-level data from Morningstar Credit shows bondholders on the shuttered San Francisco Centre carrying $351.3 million of total exposure against a property with...
Seven Equity Group Buys WeWork-Vacated Office in San Francisco Out of Receivership for $6.75MM
Seven Equity Group, a Manhattan-based investor that has quietly accumulated a distressed-office portfolio along San Francisco’s Taylor Street and Market Street corridors, paid...
Zoom Pledges Downtown Expansion as San José Courts Global Capital With 2 Gigawatts of Power, 30 Percent Cheaper Land
Zoom founder and Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan closed San José’s first International Innovation and Investment Summit by announcing the video conferencing company...
San José Airport Puts 15-Acre Airfield Site in Play With $2.75MM Minimum Ground Rent and 50-Year Lease Ceiling
San José Mineta International Airport is preparing to solicit proposals for the long-term ground lease and development of a 15-acre parcel on its...
Marin Open Space Trust to Donate 161-Acre King Mountain Summit to Marin County Open Space District
Linking separate sections of the preserve with MOST’s assistance would be a victory for neighbors, hikers, conservationists Marin County, CA – For decades,...
