$26.6MM Principal Loan Backed by Broadshore Capital Partners’ 500 Ygnacio Valley in Walnut Creek Hits Market
Broadshore Capital Partners paid $36 million for the 105,000-SQFT building in 2016 and refinanced with a $28 million Principal Real Estate Investors loan...
Mercy Housing Advances 159-Unit Affordable Senior Project at Laguna Honda Hospital
The nonprofit developer pivots from an assisted living model to deeply affordable rentals, banking on state streamlining to clear a project two decades...
Hume Development Pushes Historic 700 J Street Conversion Toward 107-Room Hotel Eleanor Debut
The seven-story Capitol National Bank building in Downtown Sacramento is closing in on its second act as a luxury boutique hotel, with interiors...
Baywest Development Files Plans for 400-Unit, 11-Acre Residential Project Across Belmont and Redwood City
The five-parcel proposal would replace three office buildings and a parking garage with single-family homes, townhomes, and a seven-story apartment tower on the...
Timespace Group Proposes Eight-Story, 174-Unit Condo Tower at 800 San Antonio in Palo Alto
The developer’s revised design more than doubles a previously approved five-story plan, drawing mixed feedback from Palo Alto’s design board over massing, ground-floor...
Summerhill’s 320-Unit Apartment Project In Burlingame Breaks Ground
Seven-story development near Millbrae transit hub adds momentum to Rollins Road corridor transformation, replacing industrial uses with dense housing Construction crews have mobilized...
Grocery Outlet Pushes Forward on Two Oakland Stores Totaling 19,600 SQFT, Targeting Vacant Walgreens Sites
The Emeryville-based discount chain is filing paperwork for locations in Temescal and Eastlake as it shifts strategy nationally Grocery Outlet is moving to...
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)...
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...
Google Opens 800,000 SQFT Meadow Point Campus in North San Jose
The Alphabet unit cuts the ribbon on its largest San Jose campus, housing 3,000 to 4,000 Google Core employees across six office buildings,...
25-Key Hotel Vinea in Healdsburg Lists for $7.5MM in Supply-Constrained Wine Country Market
The unencumbered boutique property at 178 Dry Creek Road is being marketed at roughly $300,000 per key, well below regional replacement cost estimates...
Leasing Activity Accelerates at Hacienda in Q1 2026
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the stabilization that began in late 2025....
$26.6MM Principal Loan Backed by Broadshore Capital Partners’ 500 Ygnacio Valley in Walnut Creek Hits Market
Broadshore Capital Partners paid $36 million for the 105,000-SQFT building in 2016 and refinanced with a $28 million Principal Real Estate Investors loan...
Mercy Housing Advances 159-Unit Affordable Senior Project at Laguna Honda Hospital
The nonprofit developer pivots from an assisted living model to deeply affordable rentals, banking on state streamlining to clear a project two decades...
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)...
Mavik Capital Flips 97-Unit University Park Apartments in Berkeley to Market After $25MM Foreclosure Takeback
New York lender’s REO affiliate is testing investor appetite for a value-add student housing play near UC Berkeley just months after wresting the...
Schools of the Sacred Heart Unveils Design for 66,000 SQFT Wellness Center on Geary Boulevard
TEF Design’s four-story aquatics, athletics and education facility advances a long-planned bet by one of San Francisco’s oldest independent schools to anchor wellness...
Innovatus Puts Entitled 4040 Civic Center Under Contract After Winning 238-Unit Approval in San Rafael
The five-story Marin County office building, marketed by Newmark, heads toward a sale just weeks after the Planning Commission cleared its conversion to...
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Silicon Valley Commercial Real Estate Market Expected to Thrive in 2026 and Beyond
By Scott Pritchett, CPM®, President Commercial Operations at Woodmont Real Estate Services The vastly improved commercial real estate market from the post-pandemic...
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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...
Colliers Secures Leasing Assignment of Kennedy Wilson’s 607,000 SQFT 601 City Center Office Tower in Oakland
601 City Center stands as the East Bay’s largest and newest Class A office tower. Oakland, California 05/07/2026 – Colliers is pleased to...
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...
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...
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...
DRA Advisors, Blue Rise Ventures List 636,000 SQFT Fremont and Milpitas Industrial Portfolio Along 880 Corridor
The eight-building package is 88 percent leased with in-place rents 25 percent below market and sits amid concentrated institutional ownership from Prologis, Blackstone,...
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...
Kilroy Realty Corporation Announces Board Refreshment
LOS ANGELES–Kilroy Realty Corporation (NYSE: KRC) (“Kilroy” or the “Company”) today announced leadership changes on the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) and...
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...
Community Presbyterian Church Proposes 68-Unit Townhouse Project on West El Pintado in Danville
Community Presbyterian Church’s plan to replace 19 single-family homes with townhomes and ADUs has cleared design review and now heads to the Planning...
74-Unit Ora Apartments Near Lake Merritt in Oakland Listed for Sale After Prime Finance’s $25MM Take-Back
The 2019-vintage building was seized by its lender in December 2024 out of a $41 million 2021 basis under Vaughn Management — and...
Pacifica Host Hotels Pays $47MM for 194-Room Element by Marriott Milpitas
The San Diego-based owner-operator picks up Silicon Valley’s largest new hotel debut of 2022 from developer Dynamic City Capital, takes over operations June...
Mavik Capital Flips 97-Unit University Park Apartments in Berkeley to Market After $25MM Foreclosure Takeback
New York lender’s REO affiliate is testing investor appetite for a value-add student housing play near UC Berkeley just months after wresting the...
Schools of the Sacred Heart Unveils Design for 66,000 SQFT Wellness Center on Geary Boulevard
TEF Design’s four-story aquatics, athletics and education facility advances a long-planned bet by one of San Francisco’s oldest independent schools to anchor wellness...
Innovatus Puts Entitled 4040 Civic Center Under Contract After Winning 238-Unit Approval in San Rafael
The five-story Marin County office building, marketed by Newmark, heads toward a sale just weeks after the Planning Commission cleared its conversion to...
Core Capital and Gaw Capital File Plans to Convert 162-Room Oakland Courtyard by Marriott Into 64-Unit Apartment Building
Joint venture invokes SB 330 to streamline approvals for adaptive reuse of five-story Downtown Oakland hotel acquired for $10.6 million in 2024 A...
Evans Property Co. Refines Plans to Revive Berkeley’s Fire-Damaged Chandler Building With 63 Apartments
A decade after flames gutted one of the most prominent corner buildings in Berkeley’s Southside, the project to bring it back to life...
