Shorenstein Acquires 550 Allerton, 77,000 SQFT Redwood City Office, for $78MM
Shorenstein has purchased 550 Allerton, a six-story Class A office building anchored by law firm Gunderson Dettmer, betting on one of the Peninsula’s...
Brookfield Moves to Add 600 Homes at Stalled Pier 70 Megaproject to Break Feasibility Logjam
Brookfield Properties is asking San Francisco to let it pack roughly 600 additional homes and two extra stories onto its 28-acre Pier 70...
CalPERS Notches 14.8% Return as Real Assets Lag the Rally at 6.3%, Portfolio Swells to $637B
The nation's largest public pension fund rode a soaring stock market to its best investment year in more than a decade, but its...
Turnbaugh Group Acquires 18,000 SQFT Downtown Martinez Office Building for $1.4MM
An out-of-the-spotlight county-seat purchase became the quarter’s clearest signal that price, not prestige, is drawing buyers deeper into the North I-680 Corridor’s office...
Bauen Capital Moves to Carve Two Downtown Sacramento Office Buildings Totaling 197,000 SQFT Into For-Sale Condominiums
Seven years after Bauen Capital bought a pair of derelict K Street landmarks on the thesis that California state agencies would fill them,...
Yoda PLC Secures 113,000 SQFT of Leasing at Transamerica Pyramid Center After $692MM San Francisco Acquisition
Four months after paying nearly $692 million for San Francisco's most recognizable tower, Cyprus-based Yoda PLC has signed more than 113,000 square feet...
Roche Folds San Jose CLIA Lab Into 11,000 SQFT Santa Clara Space, Freeing Nuveen-Owned Optical Court Building
Roche is decommissioning the specialized clinical testing laboratory it inherited from its 2015 Ariosa Diagnostics acquisition and moving all 45 employees roughly nine...
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...
Contra Costa County-Anchored 45,000 SQFT Richmond Office Lists for $7.75MM
A two-story office building anchored by Contra Costa County’s government offices has hit the market in Richmond’s Hilltop submarket, offering investors a rare,...
MidPen Housing’s 110-Unit Affordable Complex Advances in Downtown Sunnyvale
A former bank site two blocks from Sunnyvale’s Caltrain station is on track to become one of downtown’s largest affordable housing developments, after...
San Francisco Neighborhood Retail Thrives Under 5% Vacancy as Focus Shifts Downtown, Maven’s DeRose Says
San Francisco’s neighborhood shopping corridors have filled to near capacity after five years of decentralization, and with high-traffic streets under 5 percent vacancy,...
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...
CalPERS Notches 14.8% Return as Real Assets Lag the Rally at 6.3%, Portfolio Swells to $637B
The nation's largest public pension fund rode a soaring stock market to its best investment year in more than a decade, but its...
San Francisco Neighborhood Retail Thrives Under 5% Vacancy as Focus Shifts Downtown, Maven’s DeRose Says
San Francisco’s neighborhood shopping corridors have filled to near capacity after five years of decentralization, and with high-traffic streets under 5 percent vacancy,...
San Francisco, San Jose Single-Family Rents Climb Nearly 6% While National Rents Slide 1.6%
The Bay Area’s technology corridor has emerged as the strongest single-family rental market in the country during the first half of 2026, with...
San Francisco Ordinance Would Scrap Prop M Office Cap Review, Housing Balance Reports in 362 Pages of Code Cleanup
A sweeping code-cleanup ordinance now before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would delete ten sections of the Planning Code outright, repeal the...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits Record Highs as Real Vacancy Nears 15%, Newmark’s Adler Says
San Francisco office leasing has surged to all-time highs in the first half of 2026, and a Newmark building-by-building analysis argues the market’s...
Q&A: Truebeck’s Mass Timber Parking Study Tackles Durability, Carbon Reduction and Cost Head-On
A study with WRNS Studio, Holmes, Stantec and Walker Consultants argues concrete’s default building type has the most room to cut carbon —...
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...
Continue ReadingBauen Capital Moves to Carve Two Downtown Sacramento Office Buildings Totaling 197,000 SQFT Into For-Sale Condominiums
Seven years after Bauen Capital bought a pair of derelict K Street landmarks on the thesis that California state agencies would fill them,...
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...
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...
$25.375MM 1031 Exchange of 20-Unit Pacific Apartments and 64-Unit Briarwood Apartments Closes in Livermore
The two-part transaction — a $5.625MM sale of Pacific Apartments and a $19.75MM acquisition of Briarwood Apartments — reflects the same block, the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Quanta Computer Leases 210,000 SQFT Prologis Building in Fremont
AI server maker’s bet on Prologis-built space highlights how power capacity, not just square footage, is now driving Silicon Valley’s manufacturing real estate...
Sutter Health Pays $57.5MM for 27-Acre Former Ikea Site in Dublin
Health system’s cash purchase closes a decade-long land fight and adds another parcel to its expanding Tri-Valley footprint Sutter Health has picked up...
Harvest Properties Buys 485,000 SQFT Palo Alto Office Campus for $163MM, 44% Below 2019 Price
Pasadena REIT’s exit from aging Greater Stanford campus underscores the depth of the Bay Area’s office repricing An affiliate of San Francisco-based Harvest...
San Francisco, San Jose Single-Family Rents Climb Nearly 6% While National Rents Slide 1.6%
The Bay Area’s technology corridor has emerged as the strongest single-family rental market in the country during the first half of 2026, with...
San Francisco Ordinance Would Scrap Prop M Office Cap Review, Housing Balance Reports in 362 Pages of Code Cleanup
A sweeping code-cleanup ordinance now before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would delete ten sections of the Planning Code outright, repeal the...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits Record Highs as Real Vacancy Nears 15%, Newmark’s Adler Says
San Francisco office leasing has surged to all-time highs in the first half of 2026, and a Newmark building-by-building analysis argues the market’s...
Mason at Hive in Oakland Faces July Foreclosure Auction After $39.7MM Loan Default
One of Uptown Oakland’s most symbolically important apartment buildings is headed to the auction block, even as the city’s broader rental market shows...
38,000 SQFT 1301 Folsom in SoMa Hits the Market in San Francisco After Full-Building Lease to Medra
An entity tied to Group i President and Chief Executive Officer Joy Ou has hired Newmark to sell 1301 Folsom Street, a three-story...
