San Francisco Office Market Posts Record 1.8MM SQFT of Net Absorption in Q1 2026 as AI Demand Surges
AI companies account for 60 percent of leasing activity and 38 percent of total tenant demand, pushing vacancy down two percentage points and...
California’s Data Centers Should be Models of Affordable, Clean Electricity
By Sam Uden and Matthew Freedman, Special for CalMatters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s sky-high...
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...
Prometheus Real Estate Group Secures $145MM Refinance of 360,000 SQFT The Towers at Cupertino City Center
CUPERTINO, Calif. (March 16, 2026) — Northmarq’s San Francisco Debt + Equity team led by Nathan Prouty, Andrew Slaton and John Holt has...
Lennar Posts Q1 Revenue Miss as Geopolitical Risks and Institutional Buyer Pullback Cloud Nation’s Largest Homebuilder
The company’s $6.62 billion quarter fell 13 percent short of the prior year, with management flagging a widening set of macro risks even...
UC Berkeley Breaks Ground on $443MM, 23-Story Student Housing Tower to Address Critical Bed Shortage
The 276-foot Bancroft-Fulton Student Housing project will become one of Berkeley’s tallest buildings and deliver 1,625 new beds for undergraduates by summer 2028....
Redco Development Acquires 13-Acre Former UPS Facility for $42MM in Sunnyvale, Plans 275,000 SQFT Industrial R&D Building
The acquisition at 1245 Hammerwood Avenue, located on Tasman Drive near Highway 237 and Lawrence Expressway, would deliver Silicon Valley’s first new ground-up...
Preliminary Permits Filed for 41-Unit Townhouse Development in Santa Clara
A roughly two-acre abandoned parcel between Bowers Avenue and Calabazas Boulevard could deliver 41 attached townhomes and 1,800 square feet of commercial space...
Lincoln & Bridge Investment Group Celebrate Opening of 175-Unit RiverRow Apartments in Santa Cruz
RiverRow features 175 units in a fully amenitized community overlooking the San Lorenzo River SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (March 16, 2026) – Lincoln Property...
Sierra Investments Proposes 45-Unit Townhome Development in Belmont
The project would replace an existing commercial office building with seven residential buildings on a 3.24-acre site at the corner of Davis Drive...
Rising Oil Prices Cloud U.S. Growth Outlook as Labor Market Stalls, Analysts Warn
The bank’s March economic outlook trims consumer spending forecasts and raises inflation expectations amid the Iran-driven energy shock, while still projecting the expansion...
New Homes Now Selling at The Lakes in Mountain House, CA
– Model Homes Available to Tour – Campelli at Lakehaven to Hold a Grand Opening Event on April 18 – The Lakes at...
San Francisco Office Market Posts Record 1.8MM SQFT of Net Absorption in Q1 2026 as AI Demand Surges
AI companies account for 60 percent of leasing activity and 38 percent of total tenant demand, pushing vacancy down two percentage points and...
California’s Data Centers Should be Models of Affordable, Clean Electricity
By Sam Uden and Matthew Freedman, Special for CalMatters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s sky-high...
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...
Lennar Posts Q1 Revenue Miss as Geopolitical Risks and Institutional Buyer Pullback Cloud Nation’s Largest Homebuilder
The company’s $6.62 billion quarter fell 13 percent short of the prior year, with management flagging a widening set of macro risks even...
Rising Oil Prices Cloud U.S. Growth Outlook as Labor Market Stalls, Analysts Warn
The bank’s March economic outlook trims consumer spending forecasts and raises inflation expectations amid the Iran-driven energy shock, while still projecting the expansion...
Concord Adopts Fair Housing Overlay, Rezoning 28 Acres in Affluent Neighborhoods for 1,000 New Homes
East Bay city approves density of up to 60 units per acre on 10 parcels along Clayton Road and Kirker Pass under state-mandated...
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Buchanan Street Partners Announces Groundbreaking on 99,500 SQFT Self-Storage Development in Scotts Valley
Newport Beach, CA (February 9, 2026) – Buchanan Street Partners (Buchanan), a Newport Beach, CA-based real estate investment management firm, has announced the...
San Francisco’s BUILD Act Slashes Transfer Tax on Large Real Estate Deals to Unlock Tens of Thousands of Stalled Housing Units
Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mahmood introduce revenue-neutral legislative package aimed at rolling back Proposition I’s doubled rates, reducing per-unit construction costs by $32,850,...
Silicon Valley’s Innovation Engine Roars as Regional Growth Stalls and Inequality Deepens, 2026 Index Finds
Annual report from Joint Venture Silicon Valley reveals a region of stark contradictions: record venture capital and patent activity coexist with rising commercial...
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...
Jodi Contreras Appointed to IREM’s Northern California Board
Belmont, CA; February 2, 2026 –Woodmont Real Estate Services’ Jeff Bosshard, CPM,®President, Multifamily Operations, announced that Jodi Contreras, CPM,®ARM,® and Regional Vice President, was appointed to IREM’s...
Kidder Mathews Welcomes Industrial Team of John Kovaleski, David Buchholz, and Alex Kovaleski in Silicon Valley
San Jose, Calif. (January 28, 2026) – Kidder Mathews is pleased to welcome John Kovaleski, David Buchholz, SIOR, and Alex Kovaleski to the firm’s Silicon Valley office....
Avenue5 Residential Promotes Key Operations and Client Strategy Leaders in Northern California and Northern Nevada Regions
Wray and Goulas Will Support Client Success and Optimize Asset Performance in Avenue5’s Growing San Francisco Bay Area, Reno, and Sacramento Markets Seattle,...
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...
An Approval is Not a Building Permit
Why the hand-wringing over Google’s empty San Jose acreage misses the point entirely. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bounded by Sea, Strangled by Trusts
Every acre we preserve is an acre we can’t build on—and the housing math is catching up By Billy the Broker (I just...
Amazon’s Empty Chairs
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) To put the size of Amazon’s office downsizing in perspective, one of its...
Housing Handcuffs
As AI startups lease luxury apartments and offer proximity bonuses to keep workers steps from their desks, San Francisco’s hottest perk is starting...
The Morning After and How The Cycle Turned While You Were Sleeping
After two years of paralysis, capital is clearing its throat and deal volume is stirring — but this cycle rewards scalpels, not sledgehammers....
Jay Paul Co. Lists 20,150 SQFT Convenience Retail Center in Sunnyvale
The fully leased, grocer-anchored strip center hits the market as housing conversions shrink Silicon Valley’s retail footprint A 20,150-square-foot convenience retail center at...
Madison Capital & PGIM Acquire Debt on Juul’s 387,000 SQFT 123 Mission Tower in San Francisco at Steep Discount From $397MM Purchase Price
A debt sale in the low $90 million range positions new investors to take ownership of a building that was once valued at...
OpenAI Reaches Agreement for 202,000 SQFT Lease at Brookfield’s Portside Commerce Center in Richmond
Industry sources indicate the AI giant, Brookfield Properties, and the City of Richmond have struck a deal for the high-power waterfront industrial facility...
DRA Advisors Lists 184,800 SQFT Class A Industrial Campus in Petaluma for Sale
The offering is the second Petaluma industrial property DRA has brought to market, following the listing of a fully occupied 120,480-square-foot facility at...
DRA Advisors Lists 120,000 SQFT Petaluma Industrial Facility for Sale as Sonoma County Vacancy Climbs
The fully leased Sonoma County property, home to ergonomic products manufacturer Workrite Ergonomics, hits the market four years after DRA acquired it for...
Non-Performing $100MM Loan Secured by 209,000 SQFT Landmark at 301 Battery Street in San Francisco Hits the Market
The distressed debt opportunity tied to the former Federal Reserve Bank building comes as the San Francisco office market shows its strongest leasing...
Oakley City Council Greenlights 3.1MM-SQFT Bridgehead Industrial Project After Developer Drops Data Center Plans
The 164-acre logistics campus on former Cline Family Cellars vineyard land won approval in a contentious late-night vote that split residents over jobs...
Concord Adopts Fair Housing Overlay, Rezoning 28 Acres in Affluent Neighborhoods for 1,000 New Homes
East Bay city approves density of up to 60 units per acre on 10 parcels along Clayton Road and Kirker Pass under state-mandated...