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...
The Unity Council and Eden Housing’s 75-Unit Affordable Housing Development in Oakland Breaks Ground
Oakland, CA — The Unity Council and Eden Housing are proud to announce the groundbreaking of 2700 International, a new mixed-use affordable housing...
Office Teardown at 1919 O’Farrell Clears Hurdle as San Mateo Apartment Plan Nears 87 Units
O’Farrell Development has filed a formal application to demolish a low-rise office building and build a seven-story rental project, nearly doubling an entitlement...
Downtown Walnut Creek Retail Rents Climb to New Peaks as Investors Pay $997 per SQFT
A Colliers report finds the East Bay district holding pricing power on the strength of an affluent consumer base, repeat visitation and a...
60-Unit Mixed-Use Tower Planned in Sacramento’s Mansion Flats
A New York-based limited partnership has filed design review plans for a five-story, car-free residential project on a quarter-acre lot once owned by...
Presidio Bay Emerges as Buyer for $100MM Nonperforming Loan on Landmark 301 Battery in San Francisco
The San Francisco investor, working with hospitality entrepreneur Phil Spiegel, is in line to take control of the 208,000-square-foot former Federal Reserve Bank...
Article Lands 8,200 SQFT Showroom at 2299 Alameda in San Francisco’s Design District
The Vancouver-based digital-native furniture retailer is backfilling a vacant EQ3 space as it begins its first U.S. brick-and-mortar push. Article, the Vancouver-based modern...
Newsom’s Four-Day Office Mandate Lands July 1, Sending 108,000 State Workers Back to Downtown Sacramento
After a one-year union-bargained delay, Executive Order N-22-25 takes effect — a lifeline for a Sacramento CBD office market sitting on a decade-high...
Sutter, Santa Clara University Land $175MM Gift to Anchor First New Bay Area Medical School in a Century at 82,000 SQFT Mission College Blvd. Campus
A Silicon Valley dual-campus repositioning of vacant office space gains a teaching arm — and rewrites how Northern California will train its next...
City Controller: San Francisco Economy Has Reached an Inflection Point
Q1 2026 indicators show tech hiring rebound, office vacancy retreating, and downtown foot traffic climbing as city hits economic inflection point San Francisco’s...
Julia Morgan School Eyes Former Bellevue Club on Lake Merritt for Permanent Oakland Campus
Gensler has filed plans to convert the 40,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts building at 525 Bellevue Avenue into classrooms, labs and a convertible gymnasium for 75...
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...
Downtown Walnut Creek Retail Rents Climb to New Peaks as Investors Pay $997 per SQFT
A Colliers report finds the East Bay district holding pricing power on the strength of an affluent consumer base, repeat visitation and a...
Newsom’s Four-Day Office Mandate Lands July 1, Sending 108,000 State Workers Back to Downtown Sacramento
After a one-year union-bargained delay, Executive Order N-22-25 takes effect — a lifeline for a Sacramento CBD office market sitting on a decade-high...
Sutter, Santa Clara University Land $175MM Gift to Anchor First New Bay Area Medical School in a Century at 82,000 SQFT Mission College Blvd. Campus
A Silicon Valley dual-campus repositioning of vacant office space gains a teaching arm — and rewrites how Northern California will train its next...
City Controller: San Francisco Economy Has Reached an Inflection Point
Q1 2026 indicators show tech hiring rebound, office vacancy retreating, and downtown foot traffic climbing as city hits economic inflection point San Francisco’s...
San Francisco Office Vacancy Headline Masks a Two-Tier Market as Premier Towers Tighten
A new Cushman & Wakefield report finds that more than half of the city’s available space has sat empty for over three years,...
Burbank Housing Sells 122-Unit Cypress Ridge LIHTC Community in Santa Rosa for $18.8MM
The Sonoma County nonprofit recycles capital out of a 2004-vintage tax-credit asset as its development pipeline expands across the North Bay. Burbank Housing...
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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 ReadingDowntown Walnut Creek Retail Rents Climb to New Peaks as Investors Pay $997 per SQFT
A Colliers report finds the East Bay district holding pricing power on the strength of an affluent consumer base, repeat visitation and a...
Illumio Signs 120,000 SQFT Lease at Ellis Partners’ Campus at Scott in Santa Clara
Illumio will move its headquarters to the 460K-square-foot Class A office complex, which is preparing a full-scale renovation following its 2025 acquisition SANTA...
Hunter Partners’ Alder Creek Marketplace in Folsom Hits 90 Percent Leased with New Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services Leases
Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services commit to new retail center opening in fall 2027 FOLSOM, Calif. (May 14, 2026)— Hunter Partners,...
Bland and Paraform Lead AI Office Leasing Totaling 69,000 SQFT at Jamestown’s Properties in San Francisco
—— Deals Anchor New Wave of AI & Tech Leasing Activity, Pushing Jamestown’s Northern Waterfront Portfolio Past 134,000 Square Feet of AI Office...
Rubicon Point Partners Lands Shockwave Medical’s 200,000 SQFT Santa Clara R&D Campus for $87.2MM in Opening Salvo of Billion-Dollar West Coast Push
The San Francisco-based investment firm secures a four-building, 12.86-acre campus fully NNN leased to a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, signaling an aggressive new...
Meta Pulls the Plug on 1.6MM SQFT Willow Village in Menlo Park, Halting Silicon Valley’s Most Ambitious Corporate Campus
The 59-acre Menlo Park mega-project, first envisioned a decade ago to house 7,000 employees, joins a growing list of casualties as the tech...
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...
Orange Buensuceso Promoted to Director of San Francisco at FPBA
Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects (FPBA) has promoted Orange Buensuceso, AIA, LEED AP, to Director of San Francisco, a milestone that takes on added...
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...
Feed the Machine: AI Could Unjam San Francisco’s 280-Day Permitting Nightmare
The city knows its building codes better than anyone. The problem is it takes 280 days to prove it. What if a computer...
Sobrato, Pacific Companies Plan 173-Unit Affordable Project on Downtown San Jose Parking Lot
The seven-story midrise at 143 South Third Street would replace a 1.3-acre asphalt lot near Paseo de San Antonio with housing aimed at...
Harvest Properties Plans 112-Unit Townhouse Development at Redwood City Shopping Center Site
The San Francisco-based developer is invoking SB 330 and the State Density Bonus Law to redevelop a 4.9-acre retail parcel into for-sale condominiums...
Telstar Instruments Buys 112,200 SQFT River District Building for $14MM
The industrial automation firm is consolidating operations from three North Natomas buildings into the Sequoia Pacific Boulevard property within roughly 90 days Telstar...
Hunter Partners’ Alder Creek Marketplace in Folsom Hits 90 Percent Leased with New Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services Leases
Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services commit to new retail center opening in fall 2027 FOLSOM, Calif. (May 14, 2026)— Hunter Partners,...
Silicon Valley Initiative Partnership Secures $74.1MM Financing for Bank of Italy Office-to-Residential Conversion in San Jose
SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 15, 2026 – Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate services firm, announced today that it has arranged...
Concord, U.S. Navy Reach Term Sheet to Convey 2,422-Acre Naval Weapons Station to Brookfield-Led Reuse Project
After two years of negotiations, the Navy is set to receive an estimated $628 million over a 30-year build-out featuring 12,272 housing units,...
Danco-Operation Dignity Partnership Lands Oakland Motel for $5.2MM to Build 23-Unit Supportive Housing Project
Telegraph Avenue acquisition becomes Alameda County’s tenth Homekey conversion as California’s $1 billion Proposition 1 program reshapes the region’s underused hospitality stock A...
San Francisco Office Vacancy Headline Masks a Two-Tier Market as Premier Towers Tighten
A new Cushman & Wakefield report finds that more than half of the city’s available space has sat empty for over three years,...