Fort Point Real Estate Partners Buys 59-Building, 928-Unit San Francisco Apartment Portfolio for $440MM
A San Francisco investor less than two years old has bought most of a large apartment portfolio that a lender took back in...
Voters Pass $11.25B Prop. 1 Housing Bond as Housing Trust Silicon Valley Readies Capital for Stalled Projects
California voters approved Proposition 1, authorizing $11.25 billion in state bonds for affordable housing, and Housing Trust Silicon Valley Chief Executive Officer Noni...
San Francisco Absorbs 3.67MM SQFT of Office Space in 2026as Vacancy Falls to 25.3% With No New Supply
San Francisco tenants have absorbed 3.67 million square feet of office space so far in 2026, a pace topped only once in two...
Prometheus Lands $105MM New York Life Refinance for 272-Unit Madrone Apartments in Mountain View
Prometheus Real Estate Group secured a five-year, interest-only $105 million loan from New York Life for its 272-unit Madrone Apartments in Mountain View,...
Solbach Locks In Rules for 49-Story, 538-Unit Tower at 501 Brannan in San Francisco’s SoMa, Nearly Halving Affordable Units
City planning records show Solbach Property Group filed four preliminary applications on Oct. 28 for a 49-story, 538-unit tower at 501 Brannan Street,...
BXP Eyes 30%-60% Rent Gains at Salesforce Tower as San Francisco Occupancy Climbs to 81.4%
BXP told investors on its third-quarter call that the first big lease rollovers at Salesforce Tower are pricing well above expiring rents, as...
Integral Communities, Feletto Development Advance 5,100-Home Expansion South of Elk Grove’s Kammerer Road
Two specific plans covering roughly 1,169 acres beyond Elk Grove's city limits, Integral Communities' Reserve at Elk Grove and Feletto Development's Elk Grove...
Integral Communities, Feletto Development Advance 5,100-Home Expansion South of Elk Grove’s Kammerer Road
Two specific plans covering roughly 1,169 acres beyond Elk Grove's city limits, Integral Communities' Reserve at Elk Grove and Feletto Development's Elk Grove...
BrightSpire Targets 2027 Sale of 541-Room Signia by Hilton San Jose After $80MM Foreclosure
An affiliate of BrightSpire Capital, which seized the 541-room Signia by Hilton San Jose through foreclosure in May 2025, now plans to look...
Align Asks Federal Judge to Toss Marina Neighbors’ Due-Process Claim Against 848-Home Safeway Towers in San Francisco
Align Real Estate is asking a federal judge to throw out the constitutional heart of a lawsuit filed by Marina District neighbors trying...
Strada Files Formal Plans for 269-Unit Housing Project Replacing Palo Alto Lab Building
Strada Investment Group has submitted its formal application to replace a half-empty Palo Alto lab building with 244 apartments and 25 for-sale townhomes....
Hacienda Edges Vacancy Below 18% as Pleasanton Campus Builds Momentum Into Year-End
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to demonstrate steady leasing performance during the third quarter of 2026, supported by declining vacancy, positive...
Did You Know? Tenants Seeking 100,000+ SQFT in San Francisco Have More Than Doubled Since Q2 2025
The number of companies hunting for 100,000 square feet or more of office space in San Francisco has more than doubled since the...
San Francisco Absorbs 3.67MM SQFT of Office Space in 2026as Vacancy Falls to 25.3% With No New Supply
San Francisco tenants have absorbed 3.67 million square feet of office space so far in 2026, a pace topped only once in two...
Higher-for-Longer Rates Are Choking Apartment Supply, Setting Up a Multifamily Rent Rebound Before 2030
Federal Reserve rate hikes have cut U.S. apartment construction starts roughly in half while renter demand keeps running hot, a mismatch that rental...
WeWork Report: San Francisco Members Up 8%, Enterprises Up 11% as AI Fuels Flex Demand
WeWork's mid-year analysis of its global membership found San Francisco added member companies faster than any other major market in its network, with...
AI Firms Have Leased 10MM SQFT in Silicon Valley and the Peninsula Since 2020 as South Bay AI Demand Jumps 67%
Artificial intelligence companies have leased about 10.0 million square feet across Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Peninsula since 2020, and the pipeline...
Home Sales Push Santa Clara County Roll to $760.1B as Commercial Appeals Hit $153.6B
Santa Clara County's taxable property base climbed to a record $760.1 billion for 2026-27, a 4.7 percent gain powered by home sales that...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hacienda Edges Vacancy Below 18% as Pleasanton Campus Builds Momentum Into Year-End
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to demonstrate steady leasing performance during the third quarter of 2026, supported by declining vacancy,...
Continue ReadingDid You Know? Tenants Seeking 100,000+ SQFT in San Francisco Have More Than Doubled Since Q2 2025
The number of companies hunting for 100,000 square feet or more of office space in San Francisco has more than doubled since the...
AI Firms Have Leased 10MM SQFT in Silicon Valley and the Peninsula Since 2020 as South Bay AI Demand Jumps 67%
Artificial intelligence companies have leased about 10.0 million square feet across Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Peninsula since 2020, and the pipeline...
BizLink Group Expands With 27,000 SQFT Lease at 668 Mission Court in Fremont as Power Becomes the Deciding Factor
Electronics manufacturer BizLink Group has taken another 27,000 square feet at 668 Mission Court in Fremont's Mission Corporate Center, staying inside the same...
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...
Thornberg Warns Bay Area Housing Faces ‘Bust Side’ as Mortgage Rates Climb Past 7%
Speaking at Star One Credit Union's third annual Bay Area Real Estate Forecast in Campbell, Beacon Economics founder Christopher Thornberg argued that an...
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...
Meridian Commercial’s James Schultz Earns Basin Street Properties’ Q3 Broker of the Quarter Honor
Basin Street Properties names Meridian Commercial’s James Schultz its Q3 2026 Broker of the Quarter for his North Bay leasing work.
Skyline Construction Taps Google and Qualcomm Campus Builder Steve Dunne to Lead Northern California Growth
Employee-owned general contractor Skyline Construction has brought veteran Silicon Valley builder Steve Dunne aboard as senior project executive, adding nearly four decades of...
RCG Ventures Taps Brixton Capital’s Michael McFadden as Western Region Director of Acquisitions
Atlanta-based shopping center investor RCG Ventures has hired Michael McFadden away from Brixton Capital as director of acquisitions for its Western Region, adding...
JLL Names Capital Markets Chief Mark Gibson Its First U.S. Country CEO, Taps Kevin MacKenzie as Successor
JLL has elevated Mark Gibson, the former HFF chief who has run its Americas capital markets business for seven years, into a newly...
HR&A Advisors Adds Former Biden White House Aide David Eichenthal to Sharpen Public Budget Practice
HR&A Advisors has brought on David Eichenthal, a veteran of the Biden White House, the U.S. Treasury and city finance offices from New...
Salad Days Are Over: Why Protein and Caffeine Are Winning the Restaurant Real Estate Race
By John Cumbelich October 5, 2026 – True Food Kitchen files for bankruptcy. Is anyone shocked by the news that yet another salad...
Dinked: Have We Hit Peak Pickleball?
The Picklr’s Chapter 11 filing, driven by lease guarantees on roughly 40 franchise locations, may be the first sign that indoor pickleball’s real...
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.
Strada Files Formal Plans for 269-Unit Housing Project Replacing Palo Alto Lab Building
Strada Investment Group has submitted its formal application to replace a half-empty Palo Alto lab building with 244 apartments and 25 for-sale townhomes....
StoneBridge Plans 650,000 SQFT Industrial, 130,000 SQFT Retail Gateway in Sacramento County
Teichert’s development arm has filed the first commercial project in Sacramento County’s 5,913-acre West Jackson Highway plan, an industrial and retail gateway at...
Nuveen Real Estate Acquires 13-Property, 1.9MM SQFT Western Retail Portfolio for $445.5MM, Including Five NorCal Centers
Nuveen Real Estate has taken control of a 13-property open-air retail portfolio across California, Colorado and Washington for $445.5 million, adding grocery-anchored centers...
225 Bush CMBS Loan Liquidates With $139.6MM Loss After Flynn’s $221MM Note Buy of 581,000 SQFT San Francisco Tower
The $350 million CMBS loan on 225 Bush St., the century-old former Standard Oil headquarters in San Francisco's Financial District, has been fully...
Lennar Paid $156MM for 25-Acre Canopy Site at San Ramon’s Bishop Ranch
Kidder Mathews' third-quarter Tri-Valley office report puts a $156 million price on the 25 acres Lennar took at Bishop Ranch's former BR8 campus,...
Terreno Realty Acquires Five-Building, 80,000 SQFT San Carlos Flex Campus for $29MM
Terreno Realty Corporation has added a 4.1-acre cluster of industrial flex buildings beside Highway 101 in San Carlos to its Bay Area holdings,...
Lincoln Property, Sabal Land $88MM Loan to Lease Up Vacant 156,000 SQFT R&D Building at 300 Kansas in San Francisco
Lincoln Property Company and Sabal Investment Holdings have secured $88 million in acquisition financing, arranged by Eastdil Secured Savills, that gives them the...
USA Properties Fund Breaks Ground on 288-Unit Centerville Plaza in Fremont, Launching $84MM First Phase on Former SiliconSage Site
USA Properties Fund and the City of Fremont will break ground Wednesday on Centerville Plaza Apartments, a two-phase, all-affordable development that will put...
