Hunter Partners Revives CityLine Sunnyvale Office Site With 247,000 SQFT Gensler Redesign at 300 S. Mathilda
Hunter Partners is asking Sunnyvale to approve a reworked, Gensler-designed office building at 300 S. Mathilda Ave., a CityLine parcel entitled for offices...
Presidio Bay Takes Title to 209,000 SQFT 301 Battery From RFR via Deed in Lieu, Lands $85.6MM Bluerock Loan in San Francisco
Recorded documents show RFR Holding surrendered the former Federal Reserve Bank building at 301 Battery Street to a Presidio Bay Ventures entity on...
San Jose Office Pipeline Runs Dry After Google’s Caribbean Campus Delivers
Marcus & Millichap expects 1.3 million square feet of office completions in the San Jose metro this year, all of it tied to...
San Jose Class A Office Vacancy Falls Below Its Long-Term Average as Class B and C Space Lags
Class A office vacancy in the San Jose metro fell 340 basis points in a year to 17.3 percent, slipping beneath the segment's...
Miramar-Linked Owner Markets 59,000 SQFT 1801 McCarthy Industrial Building in Milpitas Four Years After $18.55MM Buy
An entity tied to Los Angeles-based Miramar Acquisitions is seeking buyers for 1801 McCarthy Boulevard, a single-story, 58,750-square-foot industrial building in Milpitas it...
Gratus Ventures Files Plan for 110-Unit, Seven-Story Apartment Building Near Valley Fair, Santana Row in San Jose
A Milpitas investment firm that paid $6.5 million for an aging two-story office building on Stevens Creek Boulevard in 2025 has filed early...
97,000 SQFT Food 4 Less-Anchored Valley Shopping Center Lists for $15.9MM in Sacramento
A 96,921-square-foot neighborhood center anchored by Food 4 Less on South Sacramento's Mack Road corridor has come to market at $15.9 million, giving...
San Francisco AI Leasing Slows to 523,000 SQFT in Q3 as Average Deal Size Climbs to 31,000 SQFT
AI companies leased 523,000 square feet of San Francisco office space in the third quarter, down from 943,000 square feet the quarter before,...
73% of Build-to-Rent Residents Now Plan to Stay 3+ Years, JBREC Survey Finds
A John Burns Research and Consulting survey of nearly 8,000 build-to-rent residents shows expected tenures of three years or more jumping from 58...
California Exports Jump 15% to $17.7 Billion in August as Oakland Truckers Absorb 64% Diesel Spike
California's merchandise exports climbed 15.2 percent year over year to $17.696 billion in August on surging computer, electronics and agricultural shipments, according to...
Jonathan Rose Companies Pays $85MM for 150-Unit La Posada Senior Apartments in Santa Cruz
Jonathan Rose Companies’ second Santa Cruz purchase puts a 150-unit senior property into its $660 million preservation fund, which extended a federal rent...
Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing activity...
San Jose Office Pipeline Runs Dry After Google’s Caribbean Campus Delivers
Marcus & Millichap expects 1.3 million square feet of office completions in the San Jose metro this year, all of it tied to...
San Jose Class A Office Vacancy Falls Below Its Long-Term Average as Class B and C Space Lags
Class A office vacancy in the San Jose metro fell 340 basis points in a year to 17.3 percent, slipping beneath the segment's...
San Francisco AI Leasing Slows to 523,000 SQFT in Q3 as Average Deal Size Climbs to 31,000 SQFT
AI companies leased 523,000 square feet of San Francisco office space in the third quarter, down from 943,000 square feet the quarter before,...
73% of Build-to-Rent Residents Now Plan to Stay 3+ Years, JBREC Survey Finds
A John Burns Research and Consulting survey of nearly 8,000 build-to-rent residents shows expected tenures of three years or more jumping from 58...
California Exports Jump 15% to $17.7 Billion in August as Oakland Truckers Absorb 64% Diesel Spike
California's merchandise exports climbed 15.2 percent year over year to $17.696 billion in August on surging computer, electronics and agricultural shipments, according to...
Kabani Hotel Group CEO Urges Owners to Tighten Risk Controls as 7% Debt, AI and Insurance Costs Mount
Kabani Hotel Group founder Ahmed Kabani is urging hotel owners to tighten risk controls while markets still feel calm, and his seven-point checklist,...
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Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing...
Continue ReadingSan Jose Class A Office Vacancy Falls Below Its Long-Term Average as Class B and C Space Lags
Class A office vacancy in the San Jose metro fell 340 basis points in a year to 17.3 percent, slipping beneath the segment's...
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...
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...
Savills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
Savills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
Pacific Industrial Taps Link Logistics Veteran Bud Pharris as CEO to Drive Western U.S. Expansion
Long Beach-based developer Pacific Industrial has hired Bud Pharris, who ran Blackstone-owned Link Logistics' nine-market West Region, as chief executive officer to steer...
Woodmont Real Estate Services Taps Lilian Betancourt Norlin as Commercial Regional Manager for Peninsula, South Bay Portfolio
Belmont-based Woodmont Real Estate Services has hired Lilian Betancourt Norlin as a commercial regional manager, handing her a mix of office, industrial and...
Port of Oakland Taps Oakland Native Carl Cade as Chief Real Estate Officer to Lead Waterfront Revitalization
The Port of Oakland has handed control of its real estate portfolio, from Jack London Square to the Oakland Airport Business Park, to...
Hines Hands Reins to Third Generation as Adam Hines Joins Sister Laura Hines-Pierce as Co-CEO
Hines is moving its third generation into full command of the $91 billion global real estate firm, pairing Adam Hines with his sister,...
Newmark Lures Sarah Miller From Cushman & Wakefield to Co-Lead National Seniors Housing Valuation Practice
Newmark has hired veteran appraiser Sarah Miller, MAI, away from Cushman & Wakefield to co-lead its national seniors housing valuation and advisory discipline...
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.
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...
Interstate Equities Acquires 232-Unit The Dylan in Hercules for $83.5MM
Longtime West Coast apartment investor Interstate Equities Corporation has bought a 4-year-old waterfront apartment building in the Hercules Bayfront community, financing the purchase...
Digital Realty Targets $3B for Open-End Hyperscale Data Center Fund as Arkansas Teachers Commits $100MM
Digital Realty is courting roughly $3 billion in cornerstone capital for a permanent, core-plus vehicle built to own stabilized North American hyperscale data...
Ridge Capital Takes 272,000 SQFT 201 California in San Francisco From Columbia Property Trust for $75MM, Backed by $80.1MM Rialto Loan
Ridge Capital Investors closed on the 17-story 201 California Street tower in San Francisco's Financial District for $75 million in July, financing the...
On Ice Rinks Brings 6,000 SQFT Holiday Ice Rink to Port’s Triangle Lot at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco
San Francisco on Ice, which can hold 125 skaters per session, will run from Nov. 4 through Jan. 18 next to the SkyStar...
Owner That Took 132,000 SQFT 2101 Mission From Deutsche Bank Debt Brings Former Thrift Town Building to Market in San Francisco
2101 MS Property Holdings LLC, which acquired Deutsche Bank's position on a loan of up to $75.8 million and took title to the...
Meridian-Linked Owner Markets 100,000 SQFT 1300 South El Camino Real Office Building in San Mateo Seven Years After $61.9MM Buy
Mpvca San Mateo LLC, the Palo Alto-based entity that bought 1300 South El Camino Real from DivcoWest for $61.9 million in 2019, is...
Grosvenor Puts 101,000 SQFT 560 South Winchester Office Building Beside Santana Row Up for Sale After 13-Year Hold in San Jose
Grosvenor Americas is calling for offers on 560 South Winchester, a six-story, LEED Gold office building on the Santana Row block that it...
Kabani Hotel Group CEO Urges Owners to Tighten Risk Controls as 7% Debt, AI and Insurance Costs Mount
Kabani Hotel Group founder Ahmed Kabani is urging hotel owners to tighten risk controls while markets still feel calm, and his seven-point checklist,...