Quanta Computer Leases 210,000 SQFT Prologis Building in Fremont
AI server maker’s bet on Prologis-built space highlights how power capacity, not just square footage, is now driving Silicon Valley’s manufacturing real estate...
Sutter Health Pays $57.5MM for 27-Acre Former Ikea Site in Dublin
Health system’s cash purchase closes a decade-long land fight and adds another parcel to its expanding Tri-Valley footprint Sutter Health has picked up...
Harvest Properties Buys 485,000 SQFT Palo Alto Office Campus for $163MM, 44% Below 2019 Price
Pasadena REIT’s exit from aging Greater Stanford campus underscores the depth of the Bay Area’s office repricing An affiliate of San Francisco-based Harvest...
San Francisco, San Jose Single-Family Rents Climb Nearly 6% While National Rents Slide 1.6%
The Bay Area’s technology corridor has emerged as the strongest single-family rental market in the country during the first half of 2026, with...
San Francisco Ordinance Would Scrap Prop M Office Cap Review, Housing Balance Reports in 362 Pages of Code Cleanup
A sweeping code-cleanup ordinance now before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would delete ten sections of the Planning Code outright, repeal the...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits Record Highs as Real Vacancy Nears 15%, Newmark’s Adler Says
San Francisco office leasing has surged to all-time highs in the first half of 2026, and a Newmark building-by-building analysis argues the market’s...
Mason at Hive in Oakland Faces July Foreclosure Auction After $39.7MM Loan Default
One of Uptown Oakland’s most symbolically important apartment buildings is headed to the auction block, even as the city’s broader rental market shows...
38,000 SQFT 1301 Folsom in SoMa Hits the Market in San Francisco After Full-Building Lease to Medra
An entity tied to Group i President and Chief Executive Officer Joy Ou has hired Newmark to sell 1301 Folsom Street, a three-story...
Ensemble’s 301-Unit Parkside Advances to Construction in Santa Clara’s Clara District
Ensemble Real Estate Investments’ second residential community in Santa Clara’s Clara District has broken into construction, one of the first Bay Area multifamily...
Panattoni Completes 95,000 SQFT Amazon Delivery Station in Redding’s Stillwater Business Park
Panattoni Development Company has finished construction on Amazon’s newest last-mile delivery station in Redding, California, delivering a 95,000-square-foot facility that caps nearly two...
Q&A: Truebeck’s Mass Timber Parking Study Tackles Durability, Carbon Reduction and Cost Head-On
A study with WRNS Studio, Holmes, Stantec and Walker Consultants argues concrete’s default building type has the most room to cut carbon —...
NAIOP Becomes the Commercial Real Estate Development Association
Association adopts a new name that more clearly represents its members, their work, and its role as the leading voice for commercial real...
San Francisco, San Jose Single-Family Rents Climb Nearly 6% While National Rents Slide 1.6%
The Bay Area’s technology corridor has emerged as the strongest single-family rental market in the country during the first half of 2026, with...
San Francisco Ordinance Would Scrap Prop M Office Cap Review, Housing Balance Reports in 362 Pages of Code Cleanup
A sweeping code-cleanup ordinance now before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would delete ten sections of the Planning Code outright, repeal the...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits Record Highs as Real Vacancy Nears 15%, Newmark’s Adler Says
San Francisco office leasing has surged to all-time highs in the first half of 2026, and a Newmark building-by-building analysis argues the market’s...
Q&A: Truebeck’s Mass Timber Parking Study Tackles Durability, Carbon Reduction and Cost Head-On
A study with WRNS Studio, Holmes, Stantec and Walker Consultants argues concrete’s default building type has the most room to cut carbon —...
San Francisco Cuts Inclusionary Housing Rate to 5%, Exempts Projects Under 24 Units
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 on Tuesday to cut the city’s inclusionary housing requirement from 15 percent to 5 percent...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
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...
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Quanta Computer Leases 210,000 SQFT Prologis Building in Fremont
AI server maker’s bet on Prologis-built space highlights how power capacity, not just square footage, is now driving Silicon Valley’s manufacturing real estate...
Archer Aviation Leases Entire 501,000-SQFT Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill to Scale Air Taxi Production
Air taxi maker Archer Aviation has committed to all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s 30-acre Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill, a...
Bay Area Life Sciences Vacancy Jumps to 26.2% as Pfizer Vacates 164,000 SQFT at Oyster Point and Emeryville Land Sells for Half Its 2019 Price
The San Francisco Bay Area’s life sciences vacancy rate climbed 310 basis points year over year to 26.2 percent as more than 500,000...
$25.375MM 1031 Exchange of 20-Unit Pacific Apartments and 64-Unit Briarwood Apartments Closes in Livermore
The two-part transaction — a $5.625MM sale of Pacific Apartments and a $19.75MM acquisition of Briarwood Apartments — reflects the same block, the...
GM Lands Nearly 340,000 SQFT Palo Alto Campus at Stanford Research Park, Picking Broadcom Site Over Sunnyvale
General Motors has signed a lease for nearly 340,000 square feet at the former Broadcom campus in Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park, ending...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits 6.1MM SQFT in H1 2026, Best First Half Since 2000 as Vacancy Slides to 30.1%
San Francisco’s office market has strung together its strongest first-half leasing performance in a quarter century, with AI-driven demand pulling vacancy and sublease...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
Berkadia Taps Veteran Multifamily Executive as Chief Revenue Officer to Unify Mortgage Banking and Investment Sales Platforms
Berkadia has appointed a veteran multifamily capital markets executive as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with unifying and scaling the firm’s...
Suffolk Taps Armond Balaian to Scale Work and Expand New Office in Silicon Valley
Strategic hire strengthens Suffolk’s local leadership as infrastructure needs accelerate across Silicon Valley SAN FRANCISCO – Suffolk, one of the most innovative and...
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...
McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal
By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...
California Never: A New City That Keeps Changing Its Mind
Five identities in three years, zero houses, and one very nervous neighbor. Opinion by Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
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...
SRE Acquisitions Acquires 357-Room Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley for $53MM from Ashford Hospitality Trust
The Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley has changed hands for the first time in more than a decade, giving a Dallas-based hotel REIT working...
Blue Owl Lists SanDisk’s 578,000 SQFT Flash Memory HQ Campus in Milpitas Three Years After $192.5MM Sale-Leaseback
Blue Owl Capital has placed the five-building Milpitas R&D campus it bought from Western Digital in a 2023 sale-leaseback back on the market,...
San Francisco Cuts Inclusionary Housing Rate to 5%, Exempts Projects Under 24 Units
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 on Tuesday to cut the city’s inclusionary housing requirement from 15 percent to 5 percent...
Residents Buy 82-Space Alisal Country Estates Mobile Home Park in Salinas for $12MM
The residents of Salinas’ 82-space Alisal Country Estates Mobile Home Park have collectively purchased the property for $12 million, converting a rented-land community...
DeNardi Wang Homes Nears 216-Unit Condo Tower as Mountain View Moves to Sell Gamel Way
Mountain View is preparing to sell off an entire public street to clear the way for a seven-story, 216-condominium tower from DeNardi Wang...
The Truck Yard Grows Up: How Industrial Outdoor Storage Became Institutional Real Estate’s Hottest Bet
A decade after a favor for a friend in the crane business pulled Alterra Property Group into the fragmented world of truck yards...
San Francisco’s Office-to-Housing Pipeline Clears 300 Units as AI Rebound Squeezes Conversion Candidates
After a decade with almost nothing to show, San Francisco is set to receive applications for three office-to-residential conversions totaling more than 300...
71,000 SQFT Class A Headquarters at Pleasanton’s Bernal Corporate Park Hits the Market, Leased to Rimini Street Through 2027
A freestanding, three-story Class A office building in Pleasanton’s Bernal Corporate Park has hit the market as a rare owner-user opportunity, fully occupied...
