Rurka Homes Launches 61-Home Campelli at Lakehaven Neighborhood in Mountain House’s The Lakes Master Plan
Grand opening event on April 18 will showcase three model homes in one of Northern California’s fastest-growing communities Rurka Homes has begun sales...
KBS Capital Advisors Lists 416,000 SQFT Almaden Office Campus in Downtown San Jose, Home to Zoom’s Global Headquarters
The three-building trophy complex, acquired for $150 million in 2015, hits the market at 68 percent leased amid a shifting Silicon Valley office...
North American Life Sciences Sector Grapples With Supply Glut as 55% of Recent Lab Deliveries Sit Vacant
A pandemic-era construction wave has collided with cooling demand, leaving nearly 60 million square feet of new lab space struggling to find tenants...
AvalonBay Communities Lists 250-Unit Avalon Morrison Park Townhome Community for Sale in San Jose
The LEED Silver-certified property near Diridon Station offers investors a rare opportunity to acquire a differentiated townhome-style asset in one of the Bay...
55-Key Red Roof Inn & Suites Monterey Hits Market at $11.99MM With Adjacent Retail Component
The 1.59-acre North Fremont Street offering pairs a budget-tier lodging asset with two fully leased commercial buildings minutes from the Monterey Bay Aquarium...
Sacramento’s Labor Market Is Losing Ground Where It Can Least Afford To — and Healthcare Can Only Do So Much to Make Up the Difference
The state capital posts a 5.2 percent unemployment rate for Sacramento County and a negative year-over payroll trend for the broader MSA, with...
Fox Real Estate Pays $11.3MM for 1.45-Acre Santa Clara Retail Site Opposite Valley Fair
A local investor has acquired a 1.45-acre parcel housing Mancini’s Sleep World and Ferguson Home, betting on the long-term pull of one of...
LBA Realty Lists Gigamon-Leased 105,000 SQFT Santa Clara R&D Building Next to NVIDIA Headquarters
The two-story property at 3300 Olcott Street carries 4.9 years of lease term and excess density that could support future office, residential or...
Sacramento Industrial Vacancy Reaches Decade High as Market Enters Transitional Phase
Softening demand and new deliveries push direct vacancy to 6.7 percent in the first quarter, though limited construction starts and regional logistics strengths...
Napa and Solano Office Vacancy Climbs to 14.2% as Negative Absorption Deepens in Q1 2026
The two-county market gave back nearly 78,000 square feet in the first quarter, with Napa and Fairfield driving the losses amid continued tenant...
Downtown Walnut Creek Retail Vacancy Falls to 6.74% as Dining Brands Drive Second Consecutive Quarter of Positive Absorption
John Cumbelich & Associates’ Q1 2026 report shows new restaurant and lifestyle tenants offsetting closures of legacy operators in the East Bay’s premier...
Occupancy Rises at Hacienda as Diverse Industries Expand in Tri-Valley
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, recorded a modest increase in total occupancy to 6,581,927 square feet in March, up...
North American Life Sciences Sector Grapples With Supply Glut as 55% of Recent Lab Deliveries Sit Vacant
A pandemic-era construction wave has collided with cooling demand, leaving nearly 60 million square feet of new lab space struggling to find tenants...
Sacramento’s Labor Market Is Losing Ground Where It Can Least Afford To — and Healthcare Can Only Do So Much to Make Up the Difference
The state capital posts a 5.2 percent unemployment rate for Sacramento County and a negative year-over payroll trend for the broader MSA, with...
Sacramento Industrial Vacancy Reaches Decade High as Market Enters Transitional Phase
Softening demand and new deliveries push direct vacancy to 6.7 percent in the first quarter, though limited construction starts and regional logistics strengths...
Napa and Solano Office Vacancy Climbs to 14.2% as Negative Absorption Deepens in Q1 2026
The two-county market gave back nearly 78,000 square feet in the first quarter, with Napa and Fairfield driving the losses amid continued tenant...
Downtown Walnut Creek Retail Vacancy Falls to 6.74% as Dining Brands Drive Second Consecutive Quarter of Positive Absorption
John Cumbelich & Associates’ Q1 2026 report shows new restaurant and lifestyle tenants offsetting closures of legacy operators in the East Bay’s premier...
San Francisco Tenant Office Demand Holds Above 2019 Peak at 7.5MM SQFT as AI Expansion Reshapes the Market
Active requirements remain elevated even after a record quarter of deal-making that saw nine leases exceed 100,000 square feet, with artificial intelligence companies...
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Prometheus Real Estate Group Secures $145MM Refinance of 360,000 SQFT The Towers at Cupertino City Center
CUPERTINO, Calif. (March 16, 2026) — Northmarq’s San Francisco Debt + Equity team led by Nathan Prouty, Andrew Slaton and John Holt has...
San Francisco Office Market Posts Record 1.8MM SQFT of Net Absorption in Q1 2026 as AI Demand Surges
AI companies account for 60 percent of leasing activity and 38 percent of total tenant demand, pushing vacancy down two percentage points and...
An Approval is Not a Building Permit
Why the hand-wringing over Google’s empty San Jose acreage misses the point entirely. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
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...
Jodi Contreras Appointed to IREM’s Northern California Board
Belmont, CA; February 2, 2026 –Woodmont Real Estate Services’ Jeff Bosshard, CPM,®President, Multifamily Operations, announced that Jodi Contreras, CPM,®ARM,® and Regional Vice President, was appointed to IREM’s...
Kidder Mathews Welcomes Industrial Team of John Kovaleski, David Buchholz, and Alex Kovaleski in Silicon Valley
San Jose, Calif. (January 28, 2026) – Kidder Mathews is pleased to welcome John Kovaleski, David Buchholz, SIOR, and Alex Kovaleski to the firm’s Silicon Valley office....
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...
An Approval is Not a Building Permit
Why the hand-wringing over Google’s empty San Jose acreage misses the point entirely. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bounded by Sea, Strangled by Trusts
Every acre we preserve is an acre we can’t build on—and the housing math is catching up By Billy the Broker (I just...
Amazon’s Empty Chairs
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) To put the size of Amazon’s office downsizing in perspective, one of its...
Greystar Lists 636-Unit Lynhaven Apartment Community for Sale in San Jose
The LEED Gold-certified property, built in 2020, hits the market as Silicon Valley multifamily investment volume surges past $2 billion Lynhaven, a 636-unit...
StartupHQ Acquires Historic 100,000 SQFT Sharon Building at 55 New Montgomery in San Francisco for $20MM
The sale at roughly $200 per square foot marks a 69 percent decline from the $64.25 million Swift Real Estate Partners paid in...
San Francisco Tenant Office Demand Holds Above 2019 Peak at 7.5MM SQFT as AI Expansion Reshapes the Market
Active requirements remain elevated even after a record quarter of deal-making that saw nine leases exceed 100,000 square feet, with artificial intelligence companies...
Madison Capital & PGIM Close $95MM Acquisition of 360,000 SQFT 123 Mission in San Francisco, Completing Turnaround of Former Juul Tower
The deal prices the 29-story South Financial District office tower at roughly $264 per square foot — a 76 percent discount from Juul...
Madison Capital Closes $265MM Acquisition of 594,000 SQFT Office Tower at 45 Fremont in San Francisco’s Financial District
New York-based investor finalizes purchase of the 34-story skyscraper near Salesforce Tower at approximately $446 per square foot, completing a debt acquisition strategy...
Meridian Group & Fenway Capital Close $200MM Acquisition of 667,000 SQFT Office Tower at 415 Natoma in San Francisco’s SoMa
The deal, priced at roughly $300 per square foot, caps a debt-to-deed transfer for one of the city’s newest and most vacant office...
BridgeBio Pharma Subleases 95,000 SQFT at Icona Labs in San Francisco’s Mission Bay
Palo Alto-based genetic disease drugmaker expands footprint at former Dropbox headquarters as AI and biotech tenants fuel record-high net absorption across San Francisco...
Hamilton Zanze Lists 113,000 SQFT Northgate Portfolio in San Rafael as Marin County Office Supply Contracts
Two-building office and medical portfolio positioned adjacent to the 1,422-unit Northgate Town Square redevelopment targets value-add investors amid shrinking competitive inventory. Hamilton Zanze...
