Wistron Moves to Buy Three Fremont Buildings for ~$120MM as Blackstone Affiliate Exits Warm Springs
An entity affiliated with Blackstone is preparing to hand three early-1980s Warm Springs Boulevard buildings to Nvidia supplier Wistron Corp., a pending transaction...
Deutsche Finance Sues BVK Over $2 Billion U.S. Portfolio Anchored by San Francisco’s 750,000 SQFT Transamerica Pyramid
Deutsche Finance Group and its American subsidiary have hauled Germany's largest public pension group into a Delaware courtroom, alleging that Bayerische Versorgungskammer secretly...
SFF Realty Partners Buys AllianceBernstein’s 154,000 SQFT 2390 Mission College Blvd. in Santa Clara for $44.25MM
The 153,549-square-foot Class A tower that AllianceBernstein seized from PCCP in a 2025 foreclosure has traded for $44.25 million, roughly doubling the lender's...
San Jose Advances Rename of Downtown’s 2.3-Acre Plaza de César Chávez to Plaza de San Jose
San Jose is on the verge of renaming its oldest and most prominent downtown gathering space, a 2.3-acre civic anchor surrounded by the...
$28.3MM Refinancing Secured for 531,000 SQFT Central Valley Industrial Portfolio
The five-year, interest-only loan retires an existing recourse bank facility and pools three geographically dispersed but fully leased properties into a single cross-collateralized...
Thor Equities Buys San Francisco’s 146 Geary St. for $20.5MM, Doubling Down in Union Square
A four-story Union Square building anchored by Bang & Olufsen’s West Coast flagship has changed hands for $20.5 million, three years after its...
Rockpoint and Holland Partner Group Launch 311-Unit Stevens Creek Apartment Community in West San Jose
A Boston-based private equity firm and one of the West's most active apartment developers have teamed up to add hundreds of rental units...
State Commits $125MM to $175MM Golden Gate Fields Park as Budget Vote Nears in Berkeley
California lawmakers are poised to lock in $125 million from the state's Proposition 4 climate bond toward the Trust for Public Land's $175...
San Jose Planners Recommend Approval of Sobrato, Pacific West’s 168-Unit Downtown Affordable Tower
City planning staff have signed off on the seven-story, all-affordable proposal from the Sobrato Organization and Pacific West Communities, sending the downtown parking-lot...
Google, Super Micro Eye 294,000 SQFT Milpitas Building for AI, Manufacturing Use
Google and Super Micro Computer are among the tech companies weighing a lease in a newly built Milpitas industrial building engineered specifically for...
VanTrust Breaks Ground on 282,000 SQFT Rio Del Oro Business Park, Its First Bet on the Sacramento Market
Kansas City-based VanTrust Real Estate has planted its first flag in the Sacramento region with a three-building, 282,435-square-foot shallow-bay industrial development in Rancho...
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...
San Jose Advances Rename of Downtown’s 2.3-Acre Plaza de César Chávez to Plaza de San Jose
San Jose is on the verge of renaming its oldest and most prominent downtown gathering space, a 2.3-acre civic anchor surrounded by the...
State Commits $125MM to $175MM Golden Gate Fields Park as Budget Vote Nears in Berkeley
California lawmakers are poised to lock in $125 million from the state's Proposition 4 climate bond toward the Trust for Public Land's $175...
Silicon Valley Data Centers Sit Power-Starved as CBRE Reports Record 1.4% National Vacancy
CBRE's North America Data Center Trends webinar for the first half of 2026 described a national supply crunch that plays out with a...
San Jose Narrows Downtown Plaza de César Chávez Renaming to Five Finalists as Ranked-Choice Survey Opens
San Jose officials have winnowed more than 600 resident suggestions for renaming the nearly 250-year-old Plaza de César Chávez down to five finalists,...
California Jobs First Awards $48.5MM Statewide, Anchoring Northern California Manufacturing and Shipbuilding
Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Jobs First Council awarded $48.5 million to 18 projects statewide, steering a substantial share into Northern California's...
AI Boom Pulls Dollars From Home Improvement as Building Products Face a Drawn-Out Recovery
Speaking to building products executives, John Burns Research and Consulting principal Nishu Sood made the case for a slow, uneven recovery stretching into...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
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 ReadingSFF Realty Partners Buys AllianceBernstein’s 154,000 SQFT 2390 Mission College Blvd. in Santa Clara for $44.25MM
The 153,549-square-foot Class A tower that AllianceBernstein seized from PCCP in a 2025 foreclosure has traded for $44.25 million, roughly doubling the lender's...
Cognition Subleases 180,000 SQFT at 333 Brannan From Cruise, Expanding San Francisco Footprint Sevenfold
AI coding startup Cognition has agreed to sublease the 180,000-square-foot building at 333 Brannan Street from collapsed robotaxi operator Cruise, backfilling one of...
New York’s Bluerock Pays $330.8MM for HPE’s Former Juniper HQ in Sunnyvale Sale-Leaseback
A New York investment firm has locked up more than two decades of guaranteed rent from one of the world’s largest technology companies...
Bezos’ Project Prometheus Signs 100,000 SQFT Manufacturing Lease in West Oakland
Jeff Bezos’ stealth AI startup has landed in West Oakland just as East Bay industrial landlords report renewed demand from the exact category...
Google Seeks 250MW for San Jose Chip R&D Hub, a Power Load Rivaling an Entire Bay Area County
Google's push to power a sprawling chip-testing complex in North San Jose has collided with California's fight over who foots the bill for...
Northern California Sidelined in Data Center Boom as Power Limits Push Capacity to Texas
Northern California, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, now holds barely 1 gigawatt of data center capacity and does not rank among North America's...
Coblentz Expands Construction and Litigation Capabilities with the Arrival of New Partner Raymond Buddie
San Francisco-based law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP is pleased to welcome Raymond Buddie to the firm’s partnership. Ray brings more...
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,...
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)...
New York Investor DLC Management Nears Potential Deal for Fremont’s 887,000 SQFT Pacific Commons at ~$240MM Price
DLC Management Corp. has moved to the front of the pack to acquire one of the largest open-air retail centers to trade hands...
TMG, Grove and Lone Star Acquire 2.2MM SQFT Silicon Valley R&D Portfolio, Pay $195MM for Mission Park in Santa Clara
TMG and Grove step in as operating partners on a 140-acre, six-campus R&D platform even as vacancy climbs and per-square-foot pricing lags well...
Bell Partners Buys 250-Unit San Jose Apartment Complex for $140MM at $560K Per Unit
An East Coast apartment investor has paid a per-unit price well above the South Bay’s recent average to land a downtown San Jose...
Harrison Street Lists Stanford Research Park’s Newest Building, 85,000 SQFT 3380 Coyote Hill, for Sale in Palo Alto
Harrison Street Real Estate has enlisted Eastdil Secured and Savills to sell 3380 Coyote Hill Road, the newest and fully leased Class A...
Tailwind Investment Group Lands 419-Unit California Place and Bent Tree Apartment Portfolio in Sacramento for $65MM
Newport Beach-based Tailwind Investment Group has pushed deeper into Northern California with its purchase of the 419-unit California Place and Bent Tree apartment...
Silicon Valley Data Centers Sit Power-Starved as CBRE Reports Record 1.4% National Vacancy
CBRE's North America Data Center Trends webinar for the first half of 2026 described a national supply crunch that plays out with a...
US Forest Service Backs California Mass Timber, Mills With $2.2MM Share of $105.5MM Wood Grants
The U.S. Forest Service has directed roughly $2.2 million of a $105.5 million national wood innovation grant round to seven California projects, funding...
Ridge Capital Investors Sells 121-Unit Ukiah Apartment Portfolio for $23.5MM
The deal works out to roughly $194,200 per unit for a pair of renovated communities in a small Mendocino County market where two...
