Walnut Creek Office Vacancy Falls to 22.3% in Biggest Quarterly Drop Since 2015 as Owner-Users and Flight to Quality Fuel Rebound
The North I-680 office market cut its vacancy rate by 210 basis points to 22.3 percent in the third quarter, its steepest one-quarter...
Brightshore’s Tom Shapiro: Rate Shock Sours Housing as Data Centers Lift Industrial
Brightshore Capital founder Tom Shapiro told CNBC that a September rate hike and 30-year mortgages near 7.5 percent have soured both the for-sale...
AmWINS Access Insurance Renews 17,000 SQFT at 3585-3599 Mt Diablo Blvd in Lafayette
AmWINS Access Insurance has renewed its 16,535-square-foot lease at 3585-3599 Mt Diablo Blvd in Lafayette, keeping a specialty insurance operation in the Lamorinda...
Santana Row’s Real-Time Reels Show How Retail Landlords Are Turning Instagram Into Placemaking
Federal Realty's in-house team at San Jose's Santana Row is among four operators profiled by ICSC that have stopped using Instagram as a...
Riveria WC Sells 128,000 SQFT Riviera Plaza Office Building in Walnut Creek for $14.5MM
A Walnut Creek buyer that shares an address with one of the building's own tenants paid $14.5 million for the four-story Riviera Plaza...
DDG Puts 40-Unit 235 Valencia Street Up for Sale in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores
Colliers has brought 235 Valencia Street to market, offering investors a five-story, 40-unit mixed-use building that DDG completed in 2021 on a former...
San Leandro Breaks Ground on Cary-Haas Pedestrian Bridge Replacement Backed by $5MM Donation
San Leandro breaks ground on the Cary-Haas Pedestrian Bridge, a $976,775 contract backed by a $5MM gift, to replace a span lost in...
Owner-Users Drive More Than Half of San Jose Office Sales Volume as Dollar Volume Jumps 150%
Companies buying buildings for their own use accounted for more than half of San Jose office transaction volume in the 12 months through...
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...
Redwood City Opens Public Input on Downtown Library Parking Lot B, Where Study Sees Up to 104 Affordable Homes
Redwood City has opened a public comment window running through Oct. 20 on the future of a city-owned downtown parking lot that a...
MidPen, Sonoma County Cut Ribbon on 75-Unit Casa Roseland and One-Acre Plaza Permanente in Santa Rosa
MidPen Housing and the Sonoma County Community Development Commission will mark the grand opening of Casa Roseland, a roughly $50 million, 75-unit affordable...
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...
Walnut Creek Office Vacancy Falls to 22.3% in Biggest Quarterly Drop Since 2015 as Owner-Users and Flight to Quality Fuel Rebound
The North I-680 office market cut its vacancy rate by 210 basis points to 22.3 percent in the third quarter, its steepest one-quarter...
Brightshore’s Tom Shapiro: Rate Shock Sours Housing as Data Centers Lift Industrial
Brightshore Capital founder Tom Shapiro told CNBC that a September rate hike and 30-year mortgages near 7.5 percent have soured both the for-sale...
Santana Row’s Real-Time Reels Show How Retail Landlords Are Turning Instagram Into Placemaking
Federal Realty's in-house team at San Jose's Santana Row is among four operators profiled by ICSC that have stopped using Instagram as a...
Owner-Users Drive More Than Half of San Jose Office Sales Volume as Dollar Volume Jumps 150%
Companies buying buildings for their own use accounted for more than half of San Jose office transaction volume in the 12 months through...
Downtown San Jose Office Vacancy Holds Above 27% as Silicon Valley’s Core Submarkets Tighten
While Mountain View-Los Altos, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale-Cupertino each cut office vacancy by more than 200 basis points over the past year, Downtown...
Campbell-Los Gatos Office Vacancy Nears 25% as Santana Row-Area Sale Tests West Valley Demand
Office vacancy in the Campbell-Los Gatos submarket hovered near 25 percent as of June, Marcus & Millichap reports, a tough backdrop for the...
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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,...
Continue ReadingWalnut Creek Office Vacancy Falls to 22.3% in Biggest Quarterly Drop Since 2015 as Owner-Users and Flight to Quality Fuel Rebound
The North I-680 office market cut its vacancy rate by 210 basis points to 22.3 percent in the third quarter, its steepest one-quarter...
Robotics Leasing Blows Past 5MM SQFT in 2026, Tripling JLL’s Bay Area Forecast
JLL's top Northwest researcher bet that robotics companies would lease at least 1.5 million square feet this year, but the physical AI sector...
San Francisco Class B Office Effective Rents Jump 15%, Outpacing Class A as Mid-Tier Space Leads Q3 Absorption
Mid-tier office buildings outran San Francisco's top towers in the third quarter, with Class B effective rents climbing 15 percent year over year...
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: 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...
Thornberg Warns Bay Area Housing Faces ‘Bust Side’ as Mortgage Rates Climb Past 7%
Speaking at Star One Credit Union's third annual Bay Area Real Estate Forecast in Campbell, Beacon Economics founder Christopher Thornberg argued that an...
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...
HR&A Advisors Adds Former Biden White House Aide David Eichenthal to Sharpen Public Budget Practice
HR&A Advisors has brought on David Eichenthal, a veteran of the Biden White House, the U.S. Treasury and city finance offices from New...
Pacific Industrial Taps Link Logistics Veteran Bud Pharris as CEO to Drive Western U.S. Expansion
Long Beach-based developer Pacific Industrial has hired Bud Pharris, who ran Blackstone-owned Link Logistics' nine-market West Region, as chief executive officer to steer...
Woodmont Real Estate Services Taps Lilian Betancourt Norlin as Commercial Regional Manager for Peninsula, South Bay Portfolio
Belmont-based Woodmont Real Estate Services has hired Lilian Betancourt Norlin as a commercial regional manager, handing her a mix of office, industrial and...
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...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
Alum Rock Union School District, CORE Builders Launch 78-Unit Teacher Housing Project in East San Jose
Alum Rock Union School District, design-builder CORE Builders and architect Steinberg Hart marked the start of a 78-unit, bond-financed rental community for teachers...
Downtown San Jose Office Vacancy Holds Above 27% as Silicon Valley’s Core Submarkets Tighten
While Mountain View-Los Altos, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale-Cupertino each cut office vacancy by more than 200 basis points over the past year, Downtown...
Campbell-Los Gatos Office Vacancy Nears 25% as Santana Row-Area Sale Tests West Valley Demand
Office vacancy in the Campbell-Los Gatos submarket hovered near 25 percent as of June, Marcus & Millichap reports, a tough backdrop for the...
Contra Costa County Leases 34,000 SQFT at Concord Gateway in Concord
Contra Costa County has signed a 34,247-square-foot direct lease at 1850 Gateway Blvd, one of the two 10-story towers at Concord Gateway, placing...
California’s Labor Force Participation Matches the National Rate as the Bay Area’s AI Boom Reshapes the Picture
The latest federal data pegs California's labor force participation at 61.6 percent in July, precisely matching the national rate and sitting well below...
Beacon Capital Partners Sells 241,000 SQFT RATIO Innovation Campus in Emeryville for $63.5MM, Half Its 2020 Price
Beacon Capital Partners has offloaded the two-building RATIO Innovation Campus in Emeryville for $63.5 million, less than half what it paid in late...
Seven Equity Group Selected to Buy Shuttered 1.5MM SQFT San Francisco Centre
New York-based Seven Equity Group, a specialist in repositioning distressed retail, has been selected to buy the vacant San Francisco Centre on Market...
San Francisco Class B Office Effective Rents Jump 15%, Outpacing Class A as Mid-Tier Space Leads Q3 Absorption
Mid-tier office buildings outran San Francisco's top towers in the third quarter, with Class B effective rents climbing 15 percent year over year...