N17 Sues Menlo Park Over Rejected 665-Unit Willow Park Towers, Putting Up to $33MM in State Penalties in Play
Developer N17 has taken Menlo Park to court over the city's refusal to approve Willow Park, a 665-unit, high-rise mixed-use project on the...
Downtown Merced’s Bullet-Train Station Rides on Legal Demand, $2.4B Contract Option and $1B Savings Pitch
A legal demand from California Rural Legal Assistance and nine Valley groups, a City of Merced push for mitigation and a $2.4 billion...
Savills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
NXP Semiconductors Renews 97,000 SQFT at 350 Holger Way in North San Jose
NXP Semiconductors has renewed its 96,502-square-foot lease at 350 Holger Way in North San Jose, keeping the Dutch chipmaker in a Class A...
Physical Intelligence Locks In 81,000 SQFT Sublease at 850 Brannan St., Outgrowing Its Earlier San Francisco Plan
Robotics AI startup Physical Intelligence completed an 80,964-square-foot sublease at 850 Brannan St. in the third quarter, according to CBRE, about a third...
Savills: San Francisco Office Leasing Jumps 77% as Availability Falls to 27%
San Francisco tenants signed 3.9 million square feet of office leases in the third quarter of 2026, pushing year-to-date volume to 12.1 million...
San Jose Lets Kimco Build Homes First at 18-Acre Cambrian Park Village, Trimming $35MM in Upfront Costs
San Jose planning officials removed a requirement that Kimco Realty build the commercial core of its 18-acre Cambrian Park Village before or alongside...
Golden Gate University Eyes Contemporary Jewish Museum’s 63,000 SQFT Libeskind Landmark at 736 Mission Street for New Home
Three weeks after selling its 536 Mission Street campus to Lincoln Property Co., Golden Gate University has emerged as a potential buyer for...
Santa Clara Opens Developer Hunt for 4.8-Acre Downtown Site Slated for 300+ Homes, Food Hall and Revived Theater
Santa Clara has released a two-phase Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking a developer to ground lease 4.83 acres of City-owned land at 900...
Newsom Signs SB 868, Opening 1,200-Watt Plug-In Solar to California Renters and Apartment Dwellers
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senator Scott Wiener's SB 868 on Sept. 30, making small tenant-owned solar devices legal statewide without a utility interconnection...
San José Fights for Opportunity Zones 2.0 Tracts as State Backs 15 of 36 City Picks
San José officials lobbied Sacramento and Washington to secure 36 priority census tracts under the newly permanent federal Opportunity Zones 2.0 program, but...
Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing activity...
Savills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
Savills: San Francisco Office Leasing Jumps 77% as Availability Falls to 27%
San Francisco tenants signed 3.9 million square feet of office leases in the third quarter of 2026, pushing year-to-date volume to 12.1 million...
San José Fights for Opportunity Zones 2.0 Tracts as State Backs 15 of 36 City Picks
San José officials lobbied Sacramento and Washington to secure 36 priority census tracts under the newly permanent federal Opportunity Zones 2.0 program, but...
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...
Trepp: Parkmerced Skews San Francisco’s Multifamily Risk as AI Fuels Nation-Leading Rent Growth
A new Trepp risk ranking puts San Francisco near the top of the West's most stressed multifamily markets, but the firm's own analysts...
As California Embraces Transit Upzoning, Austin’s 22-Year Density Test Offers a Blueprint and a Warning
A student-housing overlay that reshaped the blocks west of the University of Texas gives California developers and planners a rare, finished case study...
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Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing...
Continue ReadingSavills: Silicon Valley Office Leasing Hits Post-Pandemic High of 4.9 Million SQFT
Silicon Valley office leasing more than doubled year over year to 4.9 million square feet in the third quarter of 2026, with Sunnyvale...
Waymo Eyes 120,000 SQFT of Google’s Former Space at One Market Plaza as Rithm, Blackstone Race $850MM Loan Deadline
Alphabet's robotaxi unit Waymo has signed a letter of intent for roughly 120,000 square feet across three podium floors at One Market Plaza,...
AI Mega-IPOs Push Bay Area Exit Value Past $300B, Quadrupling All of 2025
The San Francisco Bay Area captured more than $300 billion in expansion-stage company exits in the first half of 2026, dwarfing every other...
TMG, Grove and Lone Star Acquire 2.2MM SQFT Silicon Valley R&D Portfolio for Under $650MM
TMG and Grove step in as operating partners on a 140-acre, six-campus R&D platform even as vacancy climbs and per-square-foot pricing lags well...
California Clears Plug-In Solar Bill, Rewriting the Power Equation for Bay Area Renters and Landlords
California lawmakers sent SB 868 to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Aug. 26, clearing a path for renters and multifamily owners across PG&E's Northern...
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
Hines Hands Reins to Third Generation as Adam Hines Joins Sister Laura Hines-Pierce as Co-CEO
Hines is moving its third generation into full command of the $91 billion global real estate firm, pairing Adam Hines with his sister,...
Newmark Lures Sarah Miller From Cushman & Wakefield to Co-Lead National Seniors Housing Valuation Practice
Newmark has hired veteran appraiser Sarah Miller, MAI, away from Cushman & Wakefield to co-lead its national seniors housing valuation and advisory discipline...
OCMI Sacramento Office Grows with New Staff
New Hires Signify Expansion of OCMI Cost Management in Northern California SACRAMENTO, CA — OCMI is proud to announce the addition of Cheryl...
Architectural Resources Group Names Ariane Fehrenkamp Associate Principal to Grow Design Practice
Architectural Resources Group has hired veteran architect Ariane Fehrenkamp as an associate principal, tasking the two-decade design leader with expanding the San Francisco-based...
JLL Elevates Paul Morgan to Chief Operating Officer in Accelerate 2030 Platform Push
The Chicago-based real estate giant has consolidated its enterprise operations under a single new executive as it moves to run as one unified,...
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...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to CRE Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
Watch Rents Rise
By John Cumbelich Our firm recently completed a Q2 survey of the region’s 25 flagship Power Centers, in which we reported that occupancy...
FAA Taps Walsh Federal for $148.8MM Air Traffic Control Tower at Sacramento International Airport
The FAA's design-build award to Walsh Federal moves Sacramento International Airport's long-delayed tower replacement toward a summer 2027 groundbreaking, with a new north...
Sterling Organization Buys Three Safeway-Anchored Centers Totaling 277,000 SQFT in Bay Area and Honolulu
A Florida retail investor has added two Bay Area grocery centers and its first Hawaii property to a core fund built around a...
Construction on 132-Unit Tamien Station Affordable Phase Set for Q2 2027
As Phase 1 marks its ribbon-cutting, city and state filings show the path to breaking ground on Tamien Station's second affordable building has...
Stay Cal Hospitality Buys 181-Room Courtyard Newark Silicon Valley for $12MM
San Mateo-based Stay Cal Hospitality is adding a Marriott-branded select-service hotel on Newark Boulevard to a Bay Area portfolio that runs from San...
Rialto Takes Back 35,000 SQFT 580 Market St. Office After Paragon’s $17.5MM Debt Goes Unpaid
Paragon Company paid about $690 per square foot for the 1907-built Market Street building in 2015. It has now been appraised at about...
UC Berkeley’s Building Wave: $550MM AI Hub Opens as 2,738 Student Beds Rise
With a $550 million, gift-funded computing and data science hub now open and two student housing towers totaling 2,738 beds under construction, UC...
Airbnb Signs 123,000 SQFT New Lease at 850 Brannan St. as Its San Francisco Rebound Gathers Speed
Airbnb signed a 122,958-square-foot new office lease at 850 Brannan St. in the third quarter, according to CBRE, days after reports that it...
Trepp: Parkmerced Skews San Francisco’s Multifamily Risk as AI Fuels Nation-Leading Rent Growth
A new Trepp risk ranking puts San Francisco near the top of the West's most stressed multifamily markets, but the firm's own analysts...