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...
Hudson Pacific Claims Full Coverage on Rincon Center’s 163,000 SQFT Salesforce-Twilio Roll in San Francisco
Hudson Pacific Properties told investors on its third-quarter call that it is in late-stage talks covering all of the Salesforce and Twilio space...
Pacific Oak Lists 368,000 SQFT Oakland City Center Office Towers Unpriced Against $179.9MM County Assessment
The Pacific Oak-controlled owner of 1300 Clay Street and 505 14th Street has put the two-tower, 368,229-square-foot Oakland City Center office portfolio up...
Wells Fargo Leads $63.3MM Construction Revolver for SummerHill’s 155-Unit Solana Townhomes in Los Gatos
Wells Fargo has led a $63.3 million syndicated construction revolver for SummerHill Homes' Solana, the 155-townhome community rising on the former Los Gatos...
Swig Company Lands $38MM Prime Finance Loan for 300,000 SQFT 350 California in San Francisco as Occupancy Nears 45%
Three years after buying the nearly empty former Union Bank tower at 350 California Street with nothing but equity, The Swig Company has...
Shield AI-Anchored 100,000 SQFT 1300 South El Camino Real Office Building Hits San Mateo Sale Market at 77% Leased
A Meridian-linked ownership entity has put 1300 South El Camino Real up for sale through Newmark, pitching a 99,918-square-foot San Mateo office building...
American AgCredit Takes Back Napa’s Signorello Estate With $22.3MM Credit Bid, $14.7MM Short of Its Claim
Lender American AgCredit acquired the rebuilt Signorello Estate winery at 4500 Silverado Trail for $22.3 million at a Nov. 6 trustee's sale, roughly...
BrightSpire Lists 9-Acre Santa Clara Tasman East Site Planned for Up to 950 Units After Taking It Back From Related
BrightSpire Capital has hired JLL to sell a roughly 9-acre Tasman East development site near Levi's Stadium that it took back from Related...
Syufy’s SyRES Properties Challenges Permit Clock on Approved 264-Unit Builder’s Remedy Project at Former Century 24 Dome Site in San Jose
Syufy Enterprises' SyRES Properties has appealed the conditions on its newly approved permit for a seven-story, 264-unit apartment building at 741 S. Winchester...
Vander Capital Partners Buys Google-Leased 51,000 SQFT 40 Jessie Lab Building in San Francisco for $27.8MM With $20.45MM Valley Bank Loan
Vander Capital Partners has acquired 40 Jessie St., the six-story South Financial District lab building leased to Google through 2030, financing the purchase...
San Francisco Grants Final Approval to Align’s 848-Unit Marina Safeway Towers, Opening Path to Demolition Permits
San Francisco planners signed off on Align Real Estate's plan to replace the Marina Safeway at 15 Marina Blvd. with 22- and 18-story...
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...
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...
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...
Bay Area Voters Help Sink Prop 45, Sending CEQA Overhaul Back to Sacramento
California voters rejected the Chamber of Commerce's Proposition 45 by a double-digit margin, with Bay Area counties leading the opposition and sending the...
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...
Townhomes Climb to 16% of D.R. Horton’s Mix as Builder Shrinks Homes to Hit Monthly Payments
Duplexes and townhomes have climbed to about 16 percent of D.R. Horton’s closings from 10 percent a year ago, as the nation’s largest...
Yerba Buena Sheds 78,000 SQFT, Vacancy Hits 63.9% as San Francisco’s AI Office Recovery Passes It By
The submarket wrapped around Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens was the only core San Francisco office district to lose occupancy in the...
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 ReadingHudson Pacific Claims Full Coverage on Rincon Center’s 163,000 SQFT Salesforce-Twilio Roll in San Francisco
Hudson Pacific Properties told investors on its third-quarter call that it is in late-stage talks covering all of the Salesforce and Twilio space...
Kilroy Says San Francisco’s Big Blocks Are Vanishing as Bay Area Carries Its 815,000 SQFT Third Quarter
Kilroy Realty's San Francisco Bay Area portfolio climbed to 82.7 percent leased in the third quarter on a 243,000-square-foot Box renewal in Redwood...
Vander-Bend Manufacturing Renews 207,000 SQFT at 2701 Orchard Parkway in North San Jose in Quarter’s Largest R&D Lease
Vander-Bend Manufacturing has committed to staying in North San Jose for the long haul, renewing 207,006 square feet at 2701 Orchard Parkway in...
T&T Supermarket Sets Nov. 5 Opening for 50,000 SQFT Store at Acadia’s San Francisco City Center, Filling Former Best Buy Box
T&T Supermarket will open its first San Francisco store on Nov. 5 in a roughly 50,000-square-foot third-floor space at Acadia Realty Trust's City...
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...
Mission Bay Office Asking Rents Hit Record $130.90 Per SQFT as SOMA Rates Jump 32% Year Over Year
San Francisco office landlords are pricing their remaining large blocks like a seller's market again, driving Mission Bay/China Basin asking rents to a...
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...
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...
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,...
Seven Equity Group Seeks $98.7MM Loan to Raze $132.5MM San Francisco Centre for Up to 2.4MM SQFT of Office, Housing and Hotels
Seven Equity Group, the New York investor under contract to buy the shuttered San Francisco Centre for $132.5 million, is seeking up to...
Hudson Pacific Exits Two North San Jose Office Properties for $100.5MM but Still Holds 2.1MM SQFT at 70.6% Occupancy
Hudson Pacific Properties has unloaded two largely vacant North San Jose office properties for a combined $100.5 million and wrote down one of...
Six Flags Sets Labor Day 2027 Exit From California’s Great America, Freeing Prologis’ 112.6-Acre Santa Clara Site
Six Flags Entertainment will run a farewell season at California's Great America starting in March and close the Santa Clara park for good...
Quanta Computer Leases 199,000 SQFT at 8311 Central Avenue in Newark, Its Third Big Fremont-Newark Deal Since Summer
Taiwanese hardware maker Quanta Computer has taken the entire 198,768-square-foot building at 8311 Central Avenue in Newark, stacking a third large industrial footprint...
Bay Area Voters Help Sink Prop 45, Sending CEQA Overhaul Back to Sacramento
California voters rejected the Chamber of Commerce's Proposition 45 by a double-digit margin, with Bay Area counties leading the opposition and sending the...
MidPen Set to Open $50MM, 62-Unit Oak Gardens Veterans Housing on Menlo Park VA Campus
MidPen Housing will mark the grand opening of Oak Gardens on Nov. 13, delivering 62 permanent supportive apartments for veterans and their families...
Apple Renews 103,000 SQFT at BlackRock’s The Crossings @ 880 in Fremont
Apple has renewed 102,919 square feet at 48888 Fremont Boulevard, the middle building of BlackRock's three-building The Crossings @ 880 campus, holding its...
oWOW Readies Topping Out of 284-Unit Mass Timber Affordable Tower at 1523 Harrison in Downtown Oakland
Oakland developer oWOW will celebrate the topping out of 1523 Harrison Street on Nov. 19, an 11-story, 284-home affordable tower framed in mass...
