Wells Fargo Sees Rates Higher for Longer as AI Data Centers Anchor Commercial Construction
Wells Fargo's latest U.S. outlook warns that stubborn inflation and a more hawkish Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs elevated into 2027, sustaining...
Napa Council Approves 94-Room Hotel at Historic Franklin Station Post Office
Eight years after an earthquake and a first failed entitlement, Napa’s historic post office finally has a green light to become a hotel....
Amazon’s 317,000 SQFT Moffett Towers Lease Steadies Jay Paul’s $770MM Sunnyvale Loan After Google Exit
Amazon’s commitment to fully occupy one of the three towers securing Jay Paul Company’s $770 million Moffett Towers mortgage removes the single largest...
Contra Costa Pension Sets $375MM Two-Year Real Estate Pacing Plan, Weighs Co-Investment Push
The Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association has committed to deploying $375 million into real estate across 2026 and 2027, front-loading the spend...
Amazon Reported as Tenant of CapRock’s 1,271,000 SQFT Central Point III Building in Visalia
CapRock Partners has fully leased the first building at its Central Point III development in Visalia to an unnamed global corporate occupier, a...
CEQA Overhaul Measure Lands 73% Support in New PPIC Poll, Handing California Developers an Early Tailwind
A new statewide survey shows commanding, cross-partisan support for a November ballot measure that would impose hard deadlines on California’s landmark environmental review...
ArtHaus Partners and Integrity Housing Acquire 368-Unit Creek at 2645 in Sacramento for $76MM, Convert Majority to Workforce Housing
ArtHaus Partners and Integrity Housing have closed on the $76.1 million purchase of a 368-unit South Natomas apartment community and will convert roughly...
Mecah Ventures Advances 39,000 SQFT Parallel on Claremont Office Project in Downtown San Mateo
Developer Mecah Ventures is pushing ahead with Parallel on Claremont, a 38,812-square-foot speculative office project in Downtown San Mateo that accounts for more...
Matic Robotics Secures 34,000 SQFT at Bohannon’s 1020 Marsh Road in Menlo Park’s 101 Corridor
Home-robotics startup Matic Robotics has leased 34,350 square feet at 1020 Marsh Road in Menlo Park, a deal Colliers cited as evidence that...
Replit Subleases 53,000 SQFT from Exabeam at 1051 E Hillsdale in Foster City, Peninsula’s Largest Q2 Lease
Artificial intelligence coding platform Replit has taken over 52,642 square feet of Exabeam’s Foster City space, adding to a headquarters footprint it expanded...
Prologis Data Center Starts Reach $2.1 Billion as Power Pipeline Climbs to 5.8 Gigawatts
Prologis is rapidly scaling two businesses born from its logistics platform — data centers and energy — with data center development already exceeding...
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy, positive...
Wells Fargo Sees Rates Higher for Longer as AI Data Centers Anchor Commercial Construction
Wells Fargo's latest U.S. outlook warns that stubborn inflation and a more hawkish Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs elevated into 2027, sustaining...
Contra Costa Pension Sets $375MM Two-Year Real Estate Pacing Plan, Weighs Co-Investment Push
The Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association has committed to deploying $375 million into real estate across 2026 and 2027, front-loading the spend...
CEQA Overhaul Measure Lands 73% Support in New PPIC Poll, Handing California Developers an Early Tailwind
A new statewide survey shows commanding, cross-partisan support for a November ballot measure that would impose hard deadlines on California’s landmark environmental review...
Prologis Data Center Starts Reach $2.1 Billion as Power Pipeline Climbs to 5.8 Gigawatts
Prologis is rapidly scaling two businesses born from its logistics platform — data centers and energy — with data center development already exceeding...
California Sues Half Moon Bay and Turlock in Five-City Housing Element Enforcement Sweep
State housing regulators hauled Half Moon Bay and Turlock into court over years-overdue housing plans, the Northern California front of a five-city enforcement...
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Commits $75MM to Anchor Vanderbilt’s Takeover of CCA’s San Francisco Campus
Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, have pledged $75 million to establish a namesake art and design college at...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy,...
Continue ReadingAmazon’s 317,000 SQFT Moffett Towers Lease Steadies Jay Paul’s $770MM Sunnyvale Loan After Google Exit
Amazon’s commitment to fully occupy one of the three towers securing Jay Paul Company’s $770 million Moffett Towers mortgage removes the single largest...
Google Renews 2.1 Million SQFT Across Moffett Place and Moffett Gateway in Sunnyvale
A reversal from Google’s 2023 sublease push, the renewal lands as Silicon Valley vacancy hits a Bay Area low and Amazon, OpenAI and...
Amazon Leases Entire 317,000 SQFT Moffett Towers Building in Sunnyvale, Backfilling a Google Exit
Amazon has committed to the full 317,000-square-foot tower at 1000 Enterprise Way in Jay Paul Co.’s Moffett Towers campus, absorbing space Google spent...
Marin County Community Development Agency Issues Final Building Permit for 125-Unit Marinwood Apartments in San Rafael
Construction to begin on 125-unit affordable housing community Marin County, CA — An affordable housing development in unincorporated Marin has reached a significant...
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...
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,...
Port of Oakland Commissioners Hand Board Presidency to Stephanie Dominguez Walton as Cargo Volumes Claw Back
The seven-member panel that governs Northern California’s third-busiest container gateway, a 20-mile stretch of Oakland waterfront and a rebounding regional airport has installed...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
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...
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...
First-Citizens Bank Moves to Foreclose on 1 Grant Avenue and 156 Geary Retail Backed by $40MM Loan in San Francisco’s Union Square
First-Citizens Bank has started foreclosure proceedings against two prime Union Square retail buildings after their owner failed to repay a matured $40 million...
SFF Realty Partners Buys 104,000 SQFT Bosch-Leased Sunnyvale Building for $46MM
A Sunnyvale R&D building fully leased to German engineering giant Bosch has traded hands for $46 million, the latest sign that investors are...
Brex Leases Entire 200,000 SQFT Building at 270 Brannan St in San Francisco
Brex takes all 200,000 SQFT at 270 Brannan St in a nearly 10-year San Francisco lease, reversing its earlier remote-first retreat.
California Sues Half Moon Bay and Turlock in Five-City Housing Element Enforcement Sweep
State housing regulators hauled Half Moon Bay and Turlock into court over years-overdue housing plans, the Northern California front of a five-city enforcement...
Sunday AI Lands 52,000 SQFT Direct Lease at Menlo Equities’ 305 Walnut Street in Downtown Redwood City
Robotics developer Sunday AI has committed to 51,550 square feet at 305 Walnut Street in Downtown Redwood City, a direct lease that injects...
PEF Advisors Acquires 104-Unit Quail Run Affordable Housing Community in San Leandro
Preservation Equity Fund Advisors has purchased Quail Run Apartments, a 104-unit income-restricted community in San Leandro, and plans a capital campaign to modernize...
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Commits $75MM to Anchor Vanderbilt’s Takeover of CCA’s San Francisco Campus
Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, have pledged $75 million to establish a namesake art and design college at...
Yellowstone Seizes Parkmerced Development Sites Entitled for 1,700 Units Through $199MM Foreclosure in San Francisco
A New York distressed-debt specialist has taken control of the buildable heart of San Francisco’s largest apartment complex, using a construction loan it...
