Apple Acquires 195,000 SQFT Sunnyvale Office Building for $162.2MM
Apple’s latest South Bay office acquisition signals that the tech giant is using a soft office market to lock in long-term space at...
Eden Housing Opens 79-Unit Timber Senior Apartments in Newark, Converting Industrial Site to Affordable Homes
Eden Housing has delivered 79 affordable apartments for low-income seniors on a rezoned industrial parcel in Newark, anchoring the city’s long-term push to...
Infill Retail and Grocery Owners Land EV Fast-Charging Leases the Big REITs Can’t Reach
A surge of letters of intent for DC fast charging is flowing to single-property and small-portfolio retail and grocery owners in high-adoption markets,...
CulinaryOne Leases 38,000 SQFT Industrial Space at 1601 Aviation Blvd. in Lincoln, Calif.
Natural-foods company CulinaryOne has committed to 37,665 square feet of industrial space at Buzz Oates and Pac West Equities’ 1601 Aviation Blvd. in...
Vacant 30,367 SQFT Commercial Kitchen Facility at 578 Cleveland Avenue in Albany Listed for $10MM
A fully renovated commercial kitchen and industrial property along Albany’s Interstate 80 corridor has come to market for $10 million, offering buyers a...
64-Unit Briarwood Apartments in Livermore Trades for $19.4MM in 1031 Exchange
A fully occupied, 64-unit apartment community in Livermore has changed hands for $19.4 million in a 1031 exchange acquisition, a transaction that signals...
UKG Renews 23,000 SQFT at 55 Second Street in San Francisco’s Financial District
The enterprise software firm’s recommitment at the 379,000-square-foot Mission Street tower — which returned to market after Paramount Group defaulted on its financing...
AI Training Startup Mercor Expands With 27,272 SQFT Sublease at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont Tower
The $10 billion AI training startup’s sublease expansion at the former Meta-occupied tower — closed in May as San Francisco sublease availability fell...
Terreno Realty Acquires 65,000 SQFT India Basin Distribution Building for $25.9MM in San Francisco
At roughly $398 per square foot for a fully leased, four-tenant distribution building on 3.8 acres, the Bellevue-based REIT’s June 4 acquisition of...
AI Capital Pulls Silicon Valley Office Market Off the Floor as Nvidia, Apple Spend Billions and Vacancy Drops to 15.3%
A surge of artificial-intelligence venture capital is reviving Silicon Valley’s battered office market, with Nvidia and Apple spending billions on acquisitions and South...
Weekday Workforce in San Francisco’s Financial District Climbs 18% as Return-to-Office Gains Momentum
New cell phone mobility data from JLL shows weekday worker activity across San Francisco’s downtown core jumped 18 percent year-over-year, with the North...
Balanced Demand Across Industries Supports Ongoing Momentum at Hacienda
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the leasing momentum established in late 2025...
Eden Housing Opens 79-Unit Timber Senior Apartments in Newark, Converting Industrial Site to Affordable Homes
Eden Housing has delivered 79 affordable apartments for low-income seniors on a rezoned industrial parcel in Newark, anchoring the city’s long-term push to...
Infill Retail and Grocery Owners Land EV Fast-Charging Leases the Big REITs Can’t Reach
A surge of letters of intent for DC fast charging is flowing to single-property and small-portfolio retail and grocery owners in high-adoption markets,...
AI Capital Pulls Silicon Valley Office Market Off the Floor as Nvidia, Apple Spend Billions and Vacancy Drops to 15.3%
A surge of artificial-intelligence venture capital is reviving Silicon Valley’s battered office market, with Nvidia and Apple spending billions on acquisitions and South...
Weekday Workforce in San Francisco’s Financial District Climbs 18% as Return-to-Office Gains Momentum
New cell phone mobility data from JLL shows weekday worker activity across San Francisco’s downtown core jumped 18 percent year-over-year, with the North...
Mercy Housing Opens 145-Unit 1633 Valencia Senior Housing in San Francisco at Roughly Half the Typical Cost
Mercy Housing California and its partners cut the ribbon on 1633 Valencia, a 145-unit permanent supportive housing community for formerly homeless seniors that...
San Francisco Office Leasing on Pace for 30-Year High as Sublease Glut Recedes
San Francisco’s office market is on track for its strongest leasing year in three decades, as a shrinking sublease overhang, falling vacancy and...
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Balanced Demand Across Industries Supports Ongoing Momentum at Hacienda
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the leasing momentum established in late...
Continue ReadingInfill Retail and Grocery Owners Land EV Fast-Charging Leases the Big REITs Can’t Reach
A surge of letters of intent for DC fast charging is flowing to single-property and small-portfolio retail and grocery owners in high-adoption markets,...
Morningstar Flags $505MM Loan on Meta’s 701,000-SQFT Moffett Towers II Campus in Sunnyvale as Layoffs Mount
Credit analysts have placed the $505 million loan backing Moffett Towers II Buildings 3 and 4 in Sunnyvale under watch after Meta Platforms,...
City of San Francisco Expands 1455 Market St. Lease by 502,000 SQFT in $1B-Plus Deal, the Region’s Largest Since 2018
San Francisco has committed to its largest office lease since 2018, expanding the city government’s footprint at Hudson Pacific Properties’ 1455 Market St....
Hunter Partners’ Alder Creek Marketplace in Folsom Hits 90 Percent Leased with New Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services Leases
Bank of Montreal and Pacific Dental Services commit to new retail center opening in fall 2027 FOLSOM, Calif. (May 14, 2026)— Hunter Partners,...
Rubicon Point Partners Lands Shockwave Medical’s 200,000 SQFT Santa Clara R&D Campus for $87.2MM in Opening Salvo of Billion-Dollar West Coast Push
The San Francisco-based investment firm secures a four-building, 12.86-acre campus fully NNN leased to a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, signaling an aggressive new...
San Francisco Captures 80% of U.S. AI Venture Capital as Office Leasing Snaps Back
AI tenants leased 10.6 million square feet in San Francisco since 2019, equivalent to roughly 15 Salesforce Towers, pushing net absorption to 3.2...
Newmark Hires Drew Petersen as San Francisco Market Leader
San Francisco, CA (May 18, 2026) — Newmark today announces that the Company has hired industry veteran Drew Petersen as Executive Vice President...
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...
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...
W. P. Carey Launches 67,440 SQFT Speculative Warehouse at 1700 Doolittle Drive in San Leandro
Net lease giant W. P. Carey has started construction on a 67,440-square-foot Class A warehouse and advanced manufacturing building in San Leandro, betting...
Rubicon Point Partners Lists 29,000 SQFT UCSF-Leased Outpatient Facility at 1263 Mission Street in San Francisco
An entity affiliated with San Francisco-based Rubicon Point Partners has put UCSF @ SoMa, a fully leased 28,570-square-foot outpatient facility at 1263 Mission...
60,000 SQFT E-Bike Superstore Planned for Former Citrus Heights Kmart
After cycling through a Kmart, a movie theater that never opened, and a church whose community programs never materialized, the 60,000-square-foot Auburn Boulevard...
Creator Platform Patreon Signs 35,000 SQFT Direct Lease at 180 Howard in San Francisco
The direct lease is located at the former State Bar of California building in San Francisco. Patreon, the membership platform that helps creators...
Mercy Housing Opens 145-Unit 1633 Valencia Senior Housing in San Francisco at Roughly Half the Typical Cost
Mercy Housing California and its partners cut the ribbon on 1633 Valencia, a 145-unit permanent supportive housing community for formerly homeless seniors that...
San Francisco Office Leasing on Pace for 30-Year High as Sublease Glut Recedes
San Francisco’s office market is on track for its strongest leasing year in three decades, as a shrinking sublease overhang, falling vacancy and...
South Bay Wages Hit $198,798 as Apartment Demand Surges and Housing Shortage Squeezes Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County’s economy is expanding even as its job market contracts, a divergence that is keeping wages high, apartment demand red-hot and...
Villara Doubles Down at McClellan Park, Expanding to 240,000 SQFT in Sacramento County
Villara, one of McClellan Park’s longest-running tenants, has taken 80,000 additional square feet at the Sacramento County business park, lifting its total footprint...
