Trump Stalls Landmark Housing Bill Over Voter-ID Fight, Leaving West Coast Investors in Limbo
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the biggest federal housing package in a generation, cleared Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, but President...
Charles Shaw’s Former Benessere Vineyards Draws $9MM Bid as 42-Acre Napa Estate Heads to Auction Block in St. Helena
A 42-acre valley-floor vineyard and winery estate once owned by the founder of “Two Buck Chuck” has drawn a $9 million high bid...
Dueling Transfer Tax Measures Put Billions in California Real Estate Revenue on the Line
A Howard Jarvis ballot initiative and a last-minute legislative compromise, AB 736, are racing toward a June 25 deadline that will determine how...
Office Properties Income Trust Exits Bankruptcy With $714MM Debt Cut as Creditors Seize Control of Silicon Valley-Heavy REIT
A national office REIT with six Silicon Valley properties has emerged from Chapter 11 after a court-supervised restructuring that wiped out existing shareholders,...
PulteGroup Clears Review for 147-Unit Parvia Townhome Project Near Apple Park in Santa Clara
National homebuilder PulteGroup has advanced its plan to replace a longstanding Santa Clara shopping center with 147 for-sale townhomes a short walk from...
Golf Course Standoff Pushes San Leandro Marina Redevelopment Into Bankruptcy Court, Stalling 200-Plus Homes
A decade-long effort to remake San Leandro’s 75-acre waterfront has collapsed into a bankruptcy-court fight pitting developer Cal Coast against the city that...
Virtu Investments Sells 64-Unit Multifamily Property in Livermore for $19.75MM
The final piece of a three-property Livermore multifamily portfolio has changed hands, with Marcus & Millichap closing the $19.75 million sale of Briarwood...
Demmon Partners’ 316-Unit Greens at Pruneridge Clears Key Review Hurdle in Santa Clara as Apartment Market Tightens
Santa Clara has released a draft environmental impact report for The Greens at Pruneridge, advancing Demmon Partners’ bid to carve 316 apartments out...
San Jose and San Francisco Claim Top Two Spots in National AI Ranking as Bay Area Office Demand Roars Back
A new Hubble ranking of the 20 most AI-ready U.S. metros places San Jose first and San Francisco second, cementing the Bay Area...
Mecah Ventures Files Preliminary Permits for 126-Unit, 8-Story Apartment Complex in Redwood City
A Menlo Park-based developer is taking a second swing at a transit-adjacent site in Redwood City, filing preliminary permits for an eight-story, 126-unit...
Placer County Issues $46MM in Building Permits for St. Anton Communities’ 168-Unit Placer Creek
The first affordable housing project in one of Northern California’s largest master-planned communities has cleared a major construction milestone, with Placer County issuing...
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 2025...
Trump Stalls Landmark Housing Bill Over Voter-ID Fight, Leaving West Coast Investors in Limbo
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the biggest federal housing package in a generation, cleared Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, but President...
Dueling Transfer Tax Measures Put Billions in California Real Estate Revenue on the Line
A Howard Jarvis ballot initiative and a last-minute legislative compromise, AB 736, are racing toward a June 25 deadline that will determine how...
San Jose and San Francisco Claim Top Two Spots in National AI Ranking as Bay Area Office Demand Roars Back
A new Hubble ranking of the 20 most AI-ready U.S. metros places San Jose first and San Francisco second, cementing the Bay Area...
Data Center Vacancy Hits Near Zero as AI Demand Outruns Power and Permitting
With vacancy at essentially zero and tenants signing leases three years before space delivers, Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer Andy Power and CBRE’s...
CMBS Distress Rate Jumps to 11.86% in May as Office Pain Deepens and April Dip Evaporates
A one-month improvement in April proved fleeting as CRED iQ’s combined CMBS distress rate snapped back to 11.86 percent in May 2026, with...
Bay Area Transit Ridership Surges to Post-COVID High as BART, Muni and Caltrain Refill Ahead of November Funding Vote
Bay Area transit agencies are posting their strongest ridership since the pandemic, with BART recording its best four-month stretch since the 2020 shutdowns...
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 ReadingSan Jose and San Francisco Claim Top Two Spots in National AI Ranking as Bay Area Office Demand Roars Back
A new Hubble ranking of the 20 most AI-ready U.S. metros places San Jose first and San Francisco second, cementing the Bay Area...
AI Wealth and Suburban Spillover Redraw the Northern California Retail Map in 2026
Northern California’s retail recovery is being driven from two directions at once: a Bay Area flush with AI-fueled wealth that is pulling tenants...
Downtown Mountain View Office Vacancy Tops 31 Percent as City Bets Economic Vitality Strategy Can Reverse the Slide
Mountain View’s downtown office vacancy climbed to 31.5 percent in the third year of a 10-year revitalization push, even as falling retail vacancy...
DPI Retail Buys 36,000 SQFT Museum Parc for $19.25MM in San Francisco’s SoMa District
JLL Capital Markets arranges sale of fully leased retail and office asset below luxury residences SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2026 – JLL Capital Markets...
Lone Star Funds Wins Bid for Washington Holdings’ Assets in Portfolio Deal, Outbidding Brookfield and Hines
Dallas-based opportunistic investor clinches the Seattle platform’s entire real estate book in one of the largest captive-pension dispositions in recent memory. Lone Star...
City of San Francisco Expands 1455 Market St. Lease by 502,000 SQFT in $1B-Plus Deal, the Region’s Largest Since 2018
San Francisco has committed to its largest office lease since 2018, expanding the city government’s footprint at Hudson Pacific Properties’ 1455 Market St....
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...
Basin Street Properties Announces Three Leadership Promotions
RENO, NV (April 14, 2026) – Basin Street Properties announced the promotions of Elaine Nelson to Vice President of Operations, Stephen Biehle to...
Bay Area Council Announces Libby Schaaf as New President and CEO
The Sobrato Organization CEO Tony Mestres Elected Board Chair to succeed Kristina Lawson as her term ends The Bay Area Council today (April...
CBRE Elevates Mike Taquino and Kyle Kovac to Lead San Francisco Bay Area Office Capital Markets
The team has advised on more than $30 billion in commercial real estate transactions San Francisco – March 18, 2026 – CBRE announced...
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...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
The Buyer Who Wasn’t There
The record gap between home sellers and buyers reveals a tale of two Americas—Sun Belt markets drowning in oversupply while Northern cities with...
Data Center Vacancy Hits Near Zero as AI Demand Outruns Power and Permitting
With vacancy at essentially zero and tenants signing leases three years before space delivers, Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer Andy Power and CBRE’s...
Antioch Revisits Financing for 165-Unit Hillcrest Summit Affordable Project After Developer’s $8MM Penalty Warning
Antioch’s City Council will reconsider conduit bond financing for a 165-unit, fully affordable apartment complex it rejected in April, after the developer’s attorneys...
CMBS Distress Rate Jumps to 11.86% in May as Office Pain Deepens and April Dip Evaporates
A one-month improvement in April proved fleeting as CRED iQ’s combined CMBS distress rate snapped back to 11.86 percent in May 2026, with...
Blackstone Real Estate to Acquire 821-Room Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco for $279MM
Blackstone Real Estate is acquiring the 821-room Hyatt Regency Embarcadero from Sunstone Hotel Investors for $279 million — roughly $340,000 per key —...
Prado Group and SKS Partners File Permits for 200 Additional Units at Presidio Highlands in UCSF Laurel Heights Redevelopment
Prado Group and SKS Partners have filed building permits for three additional structures at the Presidio Highlands redevelopment of the former UCSF Laurel...
San Mateo Planning Commission Unanimously Backs Nazareth Enterprises’ 94-Unit Mixed-Use Tower
A downtown San Mateo property owner has cleared a significant hurdle toward replacing an obsolete commercial building with a mid-rise apartment complex steps...
Blue Diamond Hospitality Buys 151-Room Hyatt Place Fremont/Silicon Valley for $13.2MM
A Fresno-based hospitality investment group has snapped up a Silicon Valley-area hotel at a steep discount to its assessed value, adding to a...
Bay Area Transit Ridership Surges to Post-COVID High as BART, Muni and Caltrain Refill Ahead of November Funding Vote
Bay Area transit agencies are posting their strongest ridership since the pandemic, with BART recording its best four-month stretch since the 2020 shutdowns...