San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco Crack CBRE’s Top 10 for Q3 Hotel RevPAR Growth
Bay Area hotel markets claimed three of the nation's 10 fastest RevPAR growth slots in the third quarter, according to CBRE, with San...
Legacy Transportation Services Renews 195,000 SQFT Warehouse at 935 McLaughlin Avenue in San Jose
San Jose logistics and rigging firm Legacy Transportation Services has renewed its lease on the entire 194,536-square-foot warehouse at 935 McLaughlin Ave., one...
175,000 SQFT Car Sales and Service Complex Proposed to Replace Blossom Hill Road Retail Center Near Westfield Oakridge in San Jose
Plans filed with the City of San Jose call for a 175,400-square-foot vehicle sales and service complex with a gas station at 942-968...
CIM Group’s Distressed 145,000 SQFT 55 Hawthorne Goes Pending in San Francisco After Yelp Exit, Receivership
The former Yelp headquarters at 55 Hawthorne St., which CIM Group bought for $123 million in 2016 and which has sat in receivership...
Sterling’s Former Fry’s Conversion Returns 150,000 SQFT to Fremont Market, Driving Q3 Occupancy Loss
Four months after Fremont rezoned the shuttered Fry's Electronics big box on Osgood Road for industrial use, Sterling Organization's renovation has formally put...
CIM Group’s 108,000 SQFT 330 & 340 Townsend Portfolio Goes Pending in San Francisco’s SoMa
Six months after CIM Group hired CBRE to sell its two-building creative office holding across from the Caltrain station, Newmark's October 2026 tracking...
Heath Freeman Buys San Jose Earthquakes and 18,000-Seat PayPal Park in $625MM Deal
Alden Global Capital President Heath Freeman has agreed to acquire the San Jose Earthquakes along with PayPal Park, the club-owned stadium on Coleman...
OpenAI Inks 70,000 SQFT Lease With Peninsula Land & Capital at Power-Rich 2950 Zanker Road in San Jose
OpenAI has signed a 70,000-square-foot direct lease at Peninsula Land & Capital's 2950 Zanker Road in North San Jose, according to Colliers, turning...
Morgan Stanley’s Prime Property Fund Puts 250,000 SQFT 150 California Street on the Market in San Francisco
Morgan Stanley's Prime Property Fund is marketing 150 California Street, a 249,960-square-foot, 24-story Financial District tower completed in 2000, as investors return to...
Sanmina Leases Roughly 103,000 SQFT Heavy-Power Building at 2581 Junction Avenue in North San Jose
Sanmina has signed a direct lease for roughly 103,000 square feet at 2581 Junction Avenue in North San Jose, taking a heavy-power R&D...
VTA Completes 83-Foot Tunnel Launch Shaft for $12.7B BART Silicon Valley Phase II, Readies Herrenknecht Boring Machine
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has finished the deep launch shaft at its Newhall Yard work site, clearing the way to lower...
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...
San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco Crack CBRE’s Top 10 for Q3 Hotel RevPAR Growth
Bay Area hotel markets claimed three of the nation's 10 fastest RevPAR growth slots in the third quarter, according to CBRE, with San...
Bay Area Office Vacancy Falls Below 20% as Region Absorbs 4.9MM SQFT in 2026, but Oakland and Tri-Valley Still Lose Ground
Regional office vacancy fell to 19.3 percent in the third quarter as tenants absorbed 1.7 million square feet, but the gains remain concentrated...
Bay Area Office Inventory Shrinks by 12.9MM SQFT in a Year as Colliers Reclassifies Flex Space, Clouding Vacancy Comparisons
Colliers moved flex properties out of its Bay Area office count, leaving the tracked inventory 12.9 million square feet smaller than a year...
Federal Realty’s Q3 Playbook: Sell Coastal Retail in the Mid-5s, Buy Dominant Centers Inland
Federal Realty Investment Trust beat estimates and raised guidance in the third quarter, but the more telling signal is a capital-recycling strategy that...
America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word
While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...
Brookfield’s $26B Fund VI Haul Sets Up a New Wave of Capital for Northern California Power and AI Assets
Brookfield Asset Management has lined up $26 billion for its sixth flagship infrastructure fund and expects a first close within weeks, building a...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
From Lease Up to Stabilization
Woodmont Real Estate Services’ Michelle Widjaja and Jeff Bosshard explain why reaching 95% occupancy quickly matters to owners and lenders, and how...
Continue ReadingLegacy Transportation Services Renews 195,000 SQFT Warehouse at 935 McLaughlin Avenue in San Jose
San Jose logistics and rigging firm Legacy Transportation Services has renewed its lease on the entire 194,536-square-foot warehouse at 935 McLaughlin Ave., one...
Bay Area Tech Giants Bring Office Leasing Home as Market Value Jumps 28%
Bay Area-headquartered public companies have gained 28 percent in market value over the past year and are steering a growing share of their...
Mercor Takes Lila Sciences’ Upper Floors at 181 Fremont as San Francisco Trophy View Vacancy Falls to 0.5%
AI training startup Mercor subleased the 35th and 36th floors of 181 Fremont from Lila Sciences in August, a deal Newmark says left...
Sobrato Set to Break Ground in November on 427,000 SQFT Fremont Advanced Manufacturing Campus, City Official Says
The Sobrato Organization will start construction next month on a three-building advanced manufacturing campus along Warm Springs Boulevard in Fremont, a city official...
Robotics Leasing Blows Past 5MM SQFT in 2026, Tripling JLL’s Bay Area Forecast
JLL's top Northwest researcher bet that robotics companies would lease at least 1.5 million square feet this year, but the physical AI sector...
San Francisco Class B Office Effective Rents Jump 15%, Outpacing Class A as Mid-Tier Space Leads Q3 Absorption
Mid-tier office buildings outran San Francisco's top towers in the third quarter, with Class B effective rents climbing 15 percent year over year...
Shola Olatoye Exits as CEO of San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. After a Year; Sixth Street’s TJ Wenzel Steps In
Shola Olatoye is leaving the San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. little more than a year after becoming its first chief executive, handing interim...
Swinerton Taps Blach Construction Veteran Kim Scott as Project Executive for NorCal TK-14 Education Team
Swinerton has brought on Kim Scott, a longtime Blach Construction vice president and ENR National Top 20 Under 40 honoree, as project executive...
GSA Taps Cushman & Wakefield’s Mark Weiss to Run Public Buildings Service as Richmond, Santa Rosa Federal Buildings Await Buyers
Mark S. Weiss, a 42-year New York office broker and executive vice chairman at Cushman & Wakefield, will take over the federal government's...
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...
America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word
While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...
McNellis: Choosin’ Texas?
Texas is booming, with new retail, data centers and people. But the same easy land and fast approvals that drive the boom also...
Vermont Built a Catalog of Pre-Approved Homes. California Should Finish the Job
Vermont is about to hand builders 10 free, pre-approved home designs, and California, which already mandates the idea for backyard units, should extend...
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...
Dermody Acquires Vacant 606,000 SQFT Tracy 205 Logistics Center from CBRE Investment Management Venture, Assessed at $70MM
Dermody has bought the Tracy 205 Logistics Center, a never-occupied 606,343-square-foot cross-dock warehouse that a CBRE Investment Management fund and Trammell Crow Company...
Cloverdale Greenlights Esmeralda: 605 Homes and 160-Room Resort Hotel on Long-Stalled Former Mill Site
After two years of hearings and a late-night final debate, Cloverdale's City Council handed Devon Zuegel's Esmeralda Land Company the entitlements to turn...
Poseidon Aerospace Takes 111,000 SQFT 1941 Navy Hangar at Alameda Point to Build Pilotless Cargo Planes
Autonomous cargo aircraft developer Poseidon Aerospace has taken 111,000 square feet in a World War II-era Navy hangar at 1190 W Tower Avenue...
Arm Eyes Google-Leased 222,000 SQFT 750 Moffett as It Weighs Moving U.S. Headquarters From San Jose to Mountain View
Chip designer Arm has submitted a letter of intent to lease the entire five-story office building at 750 Moffett Blvd. in Mountain View,...
Gilroy Village Shopping Center Hits Market at $30MM: 124,000 SQFT Center With a Dark Former 99 Cents Only Anchor Box
A 13-acre neighborhood center anchored by Smart & Final and Crunch Fitness on Gilroy's East 10th Street corridor is for sale at $30...
Bay Area Office Vacancy Falls Below 20% as Region Absorbs 4.9MM SQFT in 2026, but Oakland and Tri-Valley Still Lose Ground
Regional office vacancy fell to 19.3 percent in the third quarter as tenants absorbed 1.7 million square feet, but the gains remain concentrated...
Panattoni to More Than Double Holt of California’s Sutter County Headquarters With 167,000 SQFT Expansion in Pleasant Grove
Panattoni Development is building two concrete tilt-up buildings totaling about 167,000 square feet at Holt of California's headquarters at 7310 Pacific Ave. in...
Vornado’s 555 California Street Hits Record $163 Rents as AI Demand Lifts San Francisco Office Market
Vornado Realty Trust told investors on its third-quarter earnings call that its Financial District complex signed 55,000 square feet of leases at an...
