Property Reserve Buys 330-Unit Mountain View Apartment Complex for $296.7MM
The LDS Church's investment arm, Property Reserve, pays $296.7 million for the 330-unit Village Residences in Mountain View, just 1.6% above its 2019...
Physical Intelligence Leases 233,500 SQFT in Mountain View Near Google’s HQ
Physical Intelligence leases 233,500 SQFT in Mountain View near Google, joining a robotics leasing wave reshaping Silicon Valley office demand.
Zurich Alternative Asset Management Buys 78,000 SQFT 410 Townsend for $47.4MM in San Francisco
Zurich Alternative Asset Management pays $47.4 million for 410 Townsend, more than double its 2024 sale price.
Sacramento and the Central Valley Anchor a Region That Outgrew the Southeast, Hidden by State Lines
A Modesto-based investment manager has published a 21-year model of federal data that pulls California's 39 inland counties out of statewide averages and...
Wafer-Scale AI Chipmaker Cerebras Systems Leases 25,000 SQFT at 490 Lakeside Drive in Sunnyvale
Cerebras Systems, the maker of wafer-scale AI processors, has signed a direct lease for roughly 25,000 square feet at 490 Lakeside Drive in...
In the Fight to Build Housing Near Campus, the University Is the Obstacle
Austin's stalled push to add towers near the University of Texas, and California's drawn-out housing battles at Berkeley and Stanford, point to the...
California Adds 39,400 Jobs in August as Unemployment Holds at 5.1%
The state's payroll expansion in August accounted for more than a quarter of all U.S. job growth, even as Professional and Business Services...
San Francisco Greenlights $8.5MM SoMa Streetscape, Turning Minna and Natoma Alleys Into Art Corridor
The San Francisco Arts Commission has approved final designs for the roughly $8.5 million Minna Natoma streetscape overhaul, clearing five artists to transform...
Santa Clara County Opens $340MM, 232,000 SQFT Valley Health Center San José-Campbell on Former Dick’s Center Site
Four years after a developer paid $26.2 million for a slice of a demolished strip center, Santa Clara County is opening its largest...
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,...
Blackstone Buys Nvidia-Leased 134,200 SQFT Sunnyvale R&D Building for $99.6MM
10-Megawatt Power Capacity Fuels Premium Pricing on Nvidia-Leased Sunnyvale Research Building A Sunnyvale research building that traded for just $31 million three years...
Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing activity...
Sacramento and the Central Valley Anchor a Region That Outgrew the Southeast, Hidden by State Lines
A Modesto-based investment manager has published a 21-year model of federal data that pulls California's 39 inland counties out of statewide averages and...
In the Fight to Build Housing Near Campus, the University Is the Obstacle
Austin's stalled push to add towers near the University of Texas, and California's drawn-out housing battles at Berkeley and Stanford, point to the...
California Adds 39,400 Jobs in August as Unemployment Holds at 5.1%
The state's payroll expansion in August accounted for more than a quarter of all U.S. job growth, even as Professional and Business Services...
San Francisco Greenlights $8.5MM SoMa Streetscape, Turning Minna and Natoma Alleys Into Art Corridor
The San Francisco Arts Commission has approved final designs for the roughly $8.5 million Minna Natoma streetscape overhaul, clearing five artists to transform...
As AI Rebuilds the Physical World, San Francisco’s Real Estate Braces for a Machine-First Era
A new Goldman Sachs Global Institute essay contends the built environment is being redesigned for machines rather than people, and San Francisco —...
The Underpriced Catalyst in Campus Real Estate Is a Train, From Austin’s Light Rail to Bay Area Transit
The catalyst reshaping land values around universities is not zoning but transit: Austin's 9.8-mile light-rail line will run past West Campus, and California's...
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Hacienda Maintains Momentum with Steady September Leasing Activity
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use business hub in Northern California, maintained steady momentum in September 2026, with space utilization edging upward and leasing...
Continue ReadingPhysical Intelligence Leases 233,500 SQFT in Mountain View Near Google’s HQ
Physical Intelligence leases 233,500 SQFT in Mountain View near Google, joining a robotics leasing wave reshaping Silicon Valley office demand.
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
Oakland Downtown Development Corp. Launches With $2MM, Setting Up Coordination With Benefit Districts
The Oakland Downtown Development Corp. debuted Thursday with $2 million in private backing and an agenda of lighting, safety and street programming that...
TMG, Grove and Lone Star Acquire 2.2MM SQFT Silicon Valley R&D Portfolio for Under $650MM
TMG and Grove step in as operating partners on a 140-acre, six-campus R&D platform even as vacancy climbs and per-square-foot pricing lags well...
Silicon Valley Office Recovery Deepens in 2Q26 as Vacancy Falls to 15.2% and Leasing Hits Seven-Year High
The Silicon Valley office market posted its seventh straight quarter of positive net absorption in the second quarter of 2026, with vacancy tightening,...
California Clears Plug-In Solar Bill, Rewriting the Power Equation for Bay Area Renters and Landlords
California lawmakers sent SB 868 to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Aug. 26, clearing a path for renters and multifamily owners across PG&E's Northern...
OCMI Sacramento Office Grows with New Staff
New Hires Signify Expansion of OCMI Cost Management in Northern California SACRAMENTO, CA — OCMI is proud to announce the addition of Cheryl...
Architectural Resources Group Names Ariane Fehrenkamp Associate Principal to Grow Design Practice
Architectural Resources Group has hired veteran architect Ariane Fehrenkamp as an associate principal, tasking the two-decade design leader with expanding the San Francisco-based...
JLL Elevates Paul Morgan to Chief Operating Officer in Accelerate 2030 Platform Push
The Chicago-based real estate giant has consolidated its enterprise operations under a single new executive as it moves to run as one unified,...
Sares Regis Elevates Drew Hudacek and Dave Hopkins to Co-CEOs as Founders Set Succession in Motion
Sares Regis Group of Northern California has handed day-to-day command of one of the Bay Area's most active development firms to two longtime...
Coblentz Expands Construction and Litigation Capabilities with the Arrival of New Partner Raymond Buddie
San Francisco-based law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP is pleased to welcome Raymond Buddie to the firm’s partnership. Ray brings more...
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.
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to CRE Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
Watch Rents Rise
By John Cumbelich Our firm recently completed a Q2 survey of the region’s 25 flagship Power Centers, in which we reported that occupancy...
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,...
TruAmerica Multifamily Acquires 200-Unit Bridges at San Ramon from Acacia Capital for $78MM
TruAmerica Multifamily paid roughly $78 million for Bridges at San Ramon, a 1987-vintage, 200-unit garden community beside Bishop Ranch, prying loose one of...
Lift Partners Pays $59.4MM for 249,000 SQFT Hayward Industrial Building
The San Francisco investment firm’s purchase of the Cabot Distribution Center extends a years-long acquisition pattern across Bay Area industrial real estate, backed...
As AI Rebuilds the Physical World, San Francisco’s Real Estate Braces for a Machine-First Era
A new Goldman Sachs Global Institute essay contends the built environment is being redesigned for machines rather than people, and San Francisco —...
Frontline Realty Capital Buys 43,498 SQFT Promenade Office Building in Berkeley at Steep Discount
San Francisco-based Frontline Realty Capital has bought its third distressed Bay Area office property in 18 months, betting that Berkeley’s tightly supplied office...
Cardea Health Buys 286-Room Radisson Hotel Oakland Airport for $15.5MM
A homelessness-focused nonprofit buys the distressed Radisson Hotel Oakland Airport for $15.5MM out of receivership, picking up a conversion plan the prior owner...
The Underpriced Catalyst in Campus Real Estate Is a Train, From Austin’s Light Rail to Bay Area Transit
The catalyst reshaping land values around universities is not zoning but transit: Austin's 9.8-mile light-rail line will run past West Campus, and California's...
El Dorado Hills Clears CEQA Hurdle in Cityhood Bid That Could Wrest Land-Use Control From the County
The El Dorado Hills Community Services District has cleared a pivotal environmental hurdle in its campaign to become a city, a step that...
Riverbank Freezes Data Center Rush With 45-Day Moratorium as Aemetis Pitches Clean-Energy Project on Former Army Munitions Site
Riverbank paused a sudden wave of data center interest with a temporary building freeze, buying time to write rules before committing land at...
