Sobrato, Pacific Companies Plan 173-Unit Affordable Project on Downtown San Jose Parking Lot
The seven-story midrise at 143 South Third Street would replace a 1.3-acre asphalt lot near Paseo de San Antonio with housing aimed at...
Harvest Properties Plans 112-Unit Townhouse Development at Redwood City Shopping Center Site
The San Francisco-based developer is invoking SB 330 and the State Density Bonus Law to redevelop a 4.9-acre retail parcel into for-sale condominiums...
Telstar Instruments Buys 112,200 SQFT River District Building for $14MM
The industrial automation firm is consolidating operations from three North Natomas buildings into the Sequoia Pacific Boulevard property within roughly 90 days Telstar...
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,...
Silicon Valley Initiative Partnership Secures $74.1MM Financing for Bank of Italy Office-to-Residential Conversion in San Jose
SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 15, 2026 – Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate services firm, announced today that it has arranged...
Concord, U.S. Navy Reach Term Sheet to Convey 2,422-Acre Naval Weapons Station to Brookfield-Led Reuse Project
After two years of negotiations, the Navy is set to receive an estimated $628 million over a 30-year build-out featuring 12,272 housing units,...
Danco-Operation Dignity Partnership Lands Oakland Motel for $5.2MM to Build 23-Unit Supportive Housing Project
Telegraph Avenue acquisition becomes Alameda County’s tenth Homekey conversion as California’s $1 billion Proposition 1 program reshapes the region’s underused hospitality stock A...
San Francisco Office Vacancy Headline Masks a Two-Tier Market as Premier Towers Tighten
A new Cushman & Wakefield report finds that more than half of the city’s available space has sat empty for over three years,...
Burbank Housing Sells 122-Unit Cypress Ridge LIHTC Community in Santa Rosa for $18.8MM
The Sonoma County nonprofit recycles capital out of a 2004-vintage tax-credit asset as its development pipeline expands across the North Bay. Burbank Housing...
Truebeck Tops Out Kresge College Town Hall in UC Santa Cruz Campus Renewal
The milestone advances the second phase of a multi-building modernization that will deliver 993 beds and a new event venue at the historic...
Grosvenor Lists Fully Entitled 450-Unit North 40 Phase II in Los Gatos as Duke of Westminster’s Firm Exits U.S. Development
CBRE is marketing the 15.67-acre Silicon Valley land bank just three months after town approval, offering buyers a rare shovel-ready residential play on...
Leasing Activity Accelerates at Hacienda in Q1 2026
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, entered 2026 with improving fundamentals, building on the stabilization that began in late 2025....
San Francisco Office Vacancy Headline Masks a Two-Tier Market as Premier Towers Tighten
A new Cushman & Wakefield report finds that more than half of the city’s available space has sat empty for over three years,...
Burbank Housing Sells 122-Unit Cypress Ridge LIHTC Community in Santa Rosa for $18.8MM
The Sonoma County nonprofit recycles capital out of a 2004-vintage tax-credit asset as its development pipeline expands across the North Bay. Burbank Housing...
Grosvenor Lists Fully Entitled 450-Unit North 40 Phase II in Los Gatos as Duke of Westminster’s Firm Exits U.S. Development
CBRE is marketing the 15.67-acre Silicon Valley land bank just three months after town approval, offering buyers a rare shovel-ready residential play on...
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...
Rockpoint Capital Tests Trophy Pricing With Newly Built Menlo Park Mixed-Use Listing
Cushman & Wakefield has launched the marketing campaign for a 2021-built office-and-condominium asset steps from Caltrain, with the seller offering flexibility on whether...
Capitol Annex Price Tag Swells to $1.2 Billion as Gilbane Resets Sacramento Megaproject Budget
New construction manager flags a $98 million overrun on California’s secrecy-shrouded statehouse expansion, even as project leaders refuse to release detailed cost records...
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Silicon Valley Commercial Real Estate Market Expected to Thrive in 2026 and Beyond
By Scott Pritchett, CPM®, President Commercial Operations at Woodmont Real Estate Services The vastly improved commercial real estate market from the post-pandemic...
Continue ReadingHunter 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,...
Illumio Signs 120,000 SQFT Lease at Ellis Partners’ Campus at Scott in Santa Clara
Illumio will move its headquarters to the 460K-square-foot Class A office complex, which is preparing a full-scale renovation following its 2025 acquisition SANTA...
Rockpoint Capital Tests Trophy Pricing With Newly Built Menlo Park Mixed-Use Listing
Cushman & Wakefield has launched the marketing campaign for a 2021-built office-and-condominium asset steps from Caltrain, with the seller offering flexibility on whether...
Bland and Paraform Lead AI Office Leasing Totaling 69,000 SQFT at Jamestown’s Properties in San Francisco
—— Deals Anchor New Wave of AI & Tech Leasing Activity, Pushing Jamestown’s Northern Waterfront Portfolio Past 134,000 Square Feet of AI Office...
Meta Pulls the Plug on 1.6MM SQFT Willow Village in Menlo Park, Halting Silicon Valley’s Most Ambitious Corporate Campus
The 59-acre Menlo Park mega-project, first envisioned a decade ago to house 7,000 employees, joins a growing list of casualties as the tech...
DRA Advisors, Blue Rise Ventures List 636,000 SQFT Fremont and Milpitas Industrial Portfolio Along 880 Corridor
The eight-building package is 88 percent leased with in-place rents 25 percent below market and sits amid concentrated institutional ownership from Prologis, Blackstone,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brookfield Lands Sunnyvale Equinix Data Center for $90.3MM, Pays 81% Premium to 2017 Basis
New York-based investor extends its Silicon Valley data center buying spree as AI-driven demand keeps power-constrained inventory at a premium. A New York...
Rudolph and Sletten Awarded Contract for Sutter’s 120,000 SQFT Advanced Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Care Complex in Sacramento
MENLO PARK, Calif.–Tutor Perini Corporation (NYSE: TPC) (the “Company”), a leading civil, building and specialty construction company, announced today that its subsidiary, Rudolph...
East West Bank Seizes 206,000 SQFT Oakland Office Complex at $8.7MM Foreclosure
HP Investors loses Edgewater Park Plaza near Oakland International Airport as East Bay office values continue to collapse and lenders move aggressively to...
Graceada Partners Lists 130,000 SQFT Ceres Industrial Park Three Years After $15.9MM Off-Market Buy
The Modesto-based investor is testing the Central Valley capital markets with a fully leased mid-bay asset acquired in June 2022, positioning the offering...
Rockpoint Capital Tests Trophy Pricing With Newly Built Menlo Park Mixed-Use Listing
Cushman & Wakefield has launched the marketing campaign for a 2021-built office-and-condominium asset steps from Caltrain, with the seller offering flexibility on whether...
MGH Management Proposes Six-Story, 23-Unit Apartment Project in Berkeley’s Southside
Applicant seeks to nearly triple residential capacity on an infill parcel near UC Berkeley, leaning on SB 330 and the State Density Bonus...
Demolition Permits Clear Path for 73-Unit Senior Housing Project on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland
Satellite Affordable Housing Associates and Saint Mary’s Center secure approvals to raze a vacant retail building and make way for a six-story affordable...
