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...
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...
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...
Palo Alto Council Overrides Planners, Approves Sares Regis’ 321-Unit Builder’s Remedy Project at 3606 El Camino Real
Two months after planning commissioners recommended blocking the parcel merger behind Sares Regis Group's seven-story apartment complex in Barron Park, the Palo Alto...
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...
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...
Brookfield, Pacific West Break Ground on 119-Unit Affordable First Phase of 336-Home Fremont Project on Former Wells Fargo Campus
Pacific West Communities has started building a six-story, 119-unit affordable apartment building at 3440 Walnut Ave., the opening phase of Brookfield's 336-home Capital...
Vander Capital Partners Buys Google-Leased 51,000 SQFT 40 Jessie Lab Building in San Francisco 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...
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...
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...
AI Tenants Push San Francisco Trophy Office Rents Toward $180 as ‘Flight to Experience’ Takes Hold
On the latest episode of CBRE's The Weekly Take podcast, Presidio Bay founder Cyrus Sanandaji and CBRE's Conor Famulener argued that San Francisco's...
Walnut Creek and Hwy 4 Industrial Vacancy Jumps to 8% as 442,000 SQFT Antioch Delivery and Concord Move-Out Land in Q3
Industrial vacancy across the Walnut Creek, North I-680 and Highway 4 corridors leapt 320 basis points in a single quarter to 8.0 percent,...
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 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...
Bezos-Backed Prometheus Said to Take All 180,000 SQFT of Sobrato’s One Harrison on San Francisco’s Waterfront
Jeff Bezos’ heavily funded AI startup Prometheus has reportedly leased every floor of The Sobrato Organization’s freshly renovated One Harrison, the former Gap...
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...
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...
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...
RCG Ventures Taps Brixton Capital’s Michael McFadden as Western Region Director of Acquisitions
Atlanta-based shopping center investor RCG Ventures has hired Michael McFadden away from Brixton Capital as director of acquisitions for its Western Region, adding...
JLL Names Capital Markets Chief Mark Gibson Its First U.S. Country CEO, Taps Kevin MacKenzie as Successor
JLL has elevated Mark Gibson, the former HFF chief who has run its Americas capital markets business for seven years, into a newly...
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,...
The First Footprints in the Snow
AI's hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who's in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...
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...
AI Tenants Push San Francisco Trophy Office Rents Toward $180 as ‘Flight to Experience’ Takes Hold
On the latest episode of CBRE's The Weekly Take podcast, Presidio Bay founder Cyrus Sanandaji and CBRE's Conor Famulener argued that San Francisco's...
Global Net Lease Takes 107,000 SQFT State-Leased Building in Rancho Cordova From Modiv Industrial for $23.61MM
Global Net Lease picked up a 106,592-square-foot Rancho Cordova building leased to California's Office of Emergency Services from Modiv Industrial for $23.61 million...
Regal-Leased 50,000 SQFT Cinema at Fresno’s Marketplace at El Paseo Hits Market for $19.72MM at 8.1% Cap
A five-year-old Regal multiplex anchoring the second phase of northwest Fresno's Marketplace at El Paseo has been put up for sale at an...
Office Properties Income Trust Sells 63,000 SQFT 100 Redwood Shores Parkway in Redwood City for $16.5MM, 64% Below Assessed Value
A restructured Office Properties Income Trust has unloaded a mostly empty four-story Class A building in Redwood Shores for about a third of...
Lake Merritt BART Plan Trades 28-Story Tower for 112-Unit Affordable Building in Oakland
East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. has filed plans to replace a long-planned 28-story, mostly market-rate tower on the former Lake Merritt BART...
Vanbarton Pushes 128,000 SQFT 115 Sansome to 90% Leased After 70,000 SQFT of Deals in San Francisco’s Financial District
Three years after it chose a discounted loan payoff over a fire sale, Vanbarton Group has filled its 15-story 115 Sansome St. tower...
