B3 Investors in Talks to Buy Former Bloomingdale’s Space at San Francisco Centre
An investor is quietly negotiating to buy roughly a third of downtown San Francisco’s largest dead mall, even as the broader, fully vacant...
300,000 SQFT Phelan Building at 760 Market Offered as $140MM Note Sale in San Francisco
The 299,549-square-foot Union Square landmark, anchored by Figma's global headquarters, is being offered by Newmark as a note sale carrying $140 million in...
Build Inc. Hit With Default Notice on $45.4MM India Basin Loan in San Francisco
The developer behind one of San Francisco’s largest remaining waterfront housing sites has been served a notice of default, adding a new layer...
Salient AI Nearly Triples San Francisco Footprint to 37,000 SQFT at Jamestown’s Waterfront Plaza
Salient AI, an AI loan servicing platform that relocated to San Francisco from Los Angeles last year, has nearly tripled its Waterfront Plaza...
Economist Ken Rosen: The Bay Area’s Cheap-Leverage Era Is Over, and Cap Rates Must Rise
Speaking on CBRE's podcast The Weekly Take, veteran economist Ken Rosen said the end of a 17-year run of cheap money will force...
Saybrook Markets 100 Acres in Lathrop as Housing Outpaces Retail Supply
With Sam’s Club preparing to open the Northern San Joaquin Valley’s first location inside Stanford Crossing, Saybrook Fund Advisors is marketing the surrounding...
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...
Lincoln Property and Sabal Take Title to 150,000 SQFT Showplace Square Production Building at 300 Kansas Street
A new San Francisco ownership group has taken control of the 150,000-square-foot production building at 300 Kansas St. in Showplace Square, betting that...
AI Boom Pushes Bay Area Business AI Use to 31% as San Francisco Office Vacancy Falls
The San Francisco metro now posts the highest business AI-adoption rate of any large U.S. metro the Census Bureau tracks, and the same...
OpenAI Nears Deal for 70,000 SQFT Power-Ready San Jose R&D Facility
Silicon Valley data centers commanded $180 to $275 per kilowatt monthly in the second half of 2025, among the highest rates of any...
Microsoft Renews 66,000 SQFT Office Lease at Drawbridge’s 3201 Scott Boulevard in Santa Clara
Drawbridge Realty has locked in Microsoft as the sole tenant of its fully leased Class A office building in Santa Clara through the...
Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the month...
Economist Ken Rosen: The Bay Area’s Cheap-Leverage Era Is Over, and Cap Rates Must Rise
Speaking on CBRE's podcast The Weekly Take, veteran economist Ken Rosen said the end of a 17-year run of cheap money will force...
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...
AI Boom Pushes Bay Area Business AI Use to 31% as San Francisco Office Vacancy Falls
The San Francisco metro now posts the highest business AI-adoption rate of any large U.S. metro the Census Bureau tracks, and the same...
Lurie Declares San Francisco ‘Rent Emergency,’ Backs $30MM Package as AI Boom Drives Record Rents
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a rent emergency and threw his weight behind a roughly $30 million spending plan and six ordinances...
Bay Area Life Science Tops U.S. Funding at $5.6B Even as Lab Vacancy Hits Record 26%
The San Francisco Bay Area remained the country's top destination for life science venture capital in the first half of 2026, drawing $5.6...
Why Institutional Capital Keeps Betting on Student Housing While the Bay Area Stays Underbuilt
Once a fragmented niche, purpose-built student housing has become an institutional asset class drawing billions from Blackstone, KKR and Greystar, and the Bay...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the...
Continue Reading300,000 SQFT Phelan Building at 760 Market Offered as $140MM Note Sale in San Francisco
The 299,549-square-foot Union Square landmark, anchored by Figma's global headquarters, is being offered by Newmark as a note sale carrying $140 million in...
OpenAI Scouts Multiple Silicon Valley Campuses as AI Firms Push South of Their San Francisco Base
As it hunts for room to grow, OpenAI has toured a cluster of the region's biggest available office campuses—among them Mountain View's The...
Goodwill of Silicon Valley Leases Former Rite Aid, Nearly Doubling South San Jose Store to 15,000 SQFT
The nonprofit is backfilling a vacant East Capitol Expressway drugstore emptied by Rite Aid's nationwide collapse, gaining room to pair retail sales with...
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...
Northern California Sidelined in Data Center Boom as Power Limits Push Capacity to Texas
Northern California, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, now holds barely 1 gigawatt of data center capacity and does not rank among North America's...
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,...
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...
Mohr Partners Taps East Bay Veteran Kam Schroeder as First President of Brokerage
Mohr Partners has recruited longtime East Bay broker Kam Schroeder to fill a newly created President of Brokerage post, betting on a 20-year...
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,...
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)...
Nubank Fills Presidio Bay’s New Palo Alto Office With 33,000 SQFT Lease
Nubank, Latin America’s largest digital bank, has leased the entire office component of Presidio Bay Ventures’ newly completed 388 Cambridge development near Palo...
Libertas Companies Acquires 253,000 SQFT 1333 Broadway Office Tower for $58.1MM in Oakland
A 10-story Oakland office tower has changed hands for roughly half what its previous owner paid six years ago, the latest sign that...
Port of Oakland’s $642MM Turning Basins Widening Clears Design Milestone, Eyes 2028 Construction Start
The federal government and the Port of Oakland have locked in a plan to engineer a $642 million widening of the harbor's two...
Apple’s 350,000 SQFT Sunnyvale Campus Loan Lands in Special Servicing After $209MM Maturity Default
The $209 million mortgage on TriStar Capital's fully Apple-leased office campus in Sunnyvale has been transferred to special servicing after the borrower failed...
Bridge Logistics Properties Buys 199,000 SQFT Fremont Industrial Building Backed by Blackstone and a Seven-Bank Loan
Public records tie the equity behind Bridge Logistics Properties' newly closed Fremont industrial acquisition to a Blackstone-controlled entity, while a syndicate of seven...
Mandela Station Breaks Ground on 240-Unit Affordable Phase at West Oakland BART, Phasing Out Commuter Parking
The long-stalled Mandela Station development has begun vertical construction on its 240 affordable apartments, the first buildings to rise on the West Oakland...
Tamalko Homes Secures $27MM in Tax Credits, Clearing Path for 54-Unit Affordable Project in Point Reyes Station
The partnership behind Tamalko Homes has assembled its final major financing piece — a $27 million federal tax credit award — positioning one...
Tesseract Capital Group Sells 100-Unit Modesto Apartments for $26.6MM
An assumable HUD loan carrying a 3.8 percent rate helped drive a Southern California buyer to pay a Central Valley premium for The...
