Clay Leases 44,000 SQFT at The Swig Company’s Mills Building in San Francisco
AI-powered go-to-market platform Clay has committed to 44,000 square feet at The Swig Company’s historic Mills Building, adding another marquee technology name to...
Sacramento Council Clears Nearly $800,000 to Staff Central California Intelligence Center Amid Sanctuary Clash
The Sacramento City Council narrowly approved nearly $800,000 in federal Homeland Security grant money to staff the regional Central California Intelligence Center, forcing...
D.R. Horton’s Affordability Play Runs Into California’s $843,000 Median as Q3 Margins Hold
D.R. Horton’s affordability-first strategy collides with a Northern California market where the typical home costs more than twice the statewide median and far...
San Francisco Approves 85-Foot, Nine-Unit Condo Tower at 230 Anza Street, the First Project to Clear Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan
An 85-foot condominium tower cleared the San Francisco Planning Commission on a low-rise Inner Richmond block, becoming the first project entitled under Mayor...
Quartz Valley Tribe Secures $25MM State Loan to Acquire Nearly 40,000 Acres of Siskiyou County Timberland
A small Northern California tribe is poised to reclaim nearly 40,000 acres of ancestral forestland after the state approved a $25 million loan,...
San Francisco Clears 75-Year Ground Lease for $160MM, 187-Unit LGBTQ Senior Housing Tower at 1939 Market Street
San Francisco has cleared a key hurdle for a 15-story, 187-unit affordable senior housing tower at 1939 Market Street, handing Mercy Housing California...
Alturas Capital Acquires 421,000 SQFT Outlets at Legends in Sparks for Over $100MM
Idaho-based Alturas Capital Partners has purchased one of the Reno-Sparks market’s largest retail destinations, betting more than $100 million that Northern Nevada’s tight...
Tishman Speyer Affiliate Pays $65.4MM for Two Santa Clara Data Center Parcels Near SJC
A Tishman Speyer-linked affiliate has paid a combined $65.4 million for two adjacent Santa Clara parcels on the west side of San Jose...
IRG Lands Agricultural Manufacturer for Entire 500,000 SQFT Merced Facility on Cooper Avenue
Industrial Realty Group has leased its entire half-million-square-foot manufacturing and distribution complex at 2201 Cooper Avenue in Merced to a regional agricultural manufacturer,...
Brookfield Asset Management Buys 167,000 SQFT Bradshaw Business Park for $20MM in Rancho Cordova
Global investment giant Brookfield Asset Management has picked up a 167,000-square-foot industrial park in Rancho Cordova, handing Campbell-based GPR Ventures a roughly 50...
Bell Partners Acquires 195-Unit Celeste Apartments From Sares Regis in South San Francisco for $130MM
Bell Partners has acquired Celeste Apartments, a 195-unit luxury community adjacent to the South San Francisco Caltrain station, marking the second time in...
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy, positive...
Sacramento Council Clears Nearly $800,000 to Staff Central California Intelligence Center Amid Sanctuary Clash
The Sacramento City Council narrowly approved nearly $800,000 in federal Homeland Security grant money to staff the regional Central California Intelligence Center, forcing...
D.R. Horton’s Affordability Play Runs Into California’s $843,000 Median as Q3 Margins Hold
D.R. Horton’s affordability-first strategy collides with a Northern California market where the typical home costs more than twice the statewide median and far...
San Francisco Approves 85-Foot, Nine-Unit Condo Tower at 230 Anza Street, the First Project to Clear Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan
An 85-foot condominium tower cleared the San Francisco Planning Commission on a low-rise Inner Richmond block, becoming the first project entitled under Mayor...
Quartz Valley Tribe Secures $25MM State Loan to Acquire Nearly 40,000 Acres of Siskiyou County Timberland
A small Northern California tribe is poised to reclaim nearly 40,000 acres of ancestral forestland after the state approved a $25 million loan,...
Five Point Moves Candlestick Toward Construction, Courts AI Anchor for 2.8MM SQFT Campus in San Francisco
Five Point Holdings is pushing its long-dormant Candlestick redevelopment back toward construction and preparing to hunt for a marquee technology tenant, positioning the...
Oakland Puts Foreclosure Transfer Tax on November Ballot, Targeting Up to $13MM a Year From Downtown Distress
Oakland has advanced a November ballot measure that would strip a long-standing exemption from its real estate transfer tax and turn the city’s...
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Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy,...
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Clay Leases 44,000 SQFT at The Swig Company’s Mills Building in San Francisco
AI-powered go-to-market platform Clay has committed to 44,000 square feet at The Swig Company’s historic Mills Building, adding another marquee technology name to...
Google Renews 2.1 Million SQFT Across Moffett Place and Moffett Gateway in Sunnyvale
A reversal from Google’s 2023 sublease push, the renewal lands as Silicon Valley vacancy hits a Bay Area low and Amazon, OpenAI and...
Amazon’s 317,000 SQFT Moffett Towers Lease Steadies Jay Paul’s $770MM Sunnyvale Loan After Google Exit
Amazon’s commitment to fully occupy one of the three towers securing Jay Paul Company’s $770 million Moffett Towers mortgage removes the single largest...
Marin County Community Development Agency Issues Final Building Permit for 125-Unit Marinwood Apartments in San Rafael
Construction to begin on 125-unit affordable housing community Marin County, CA — An affordable housing development in unincorporated Marin has reached a significant...
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...
San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. Taps Housing-Finance Veteran to Lead Office-to-Housing Conversion Push
The San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. has recruited longtime Enterprise Community Partners director Geeta Rao as its first vice president of real estate,...
Port of Oakland Commissioners Hand Board Presidency to Stephanie Dominguez Walton as Cargo Volumes Claw Back
The seven-member panel that governs Northern California’s third-busiest container gateway, a 20-mile stretch of Oakland waterfront and a rebounding regional airport has installed...
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...
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...
Cannae Partners Acquires 234,016 SQFT EmeryTech Office Campus in Emeryville for $55.5MM
Cannae Partners has purchased EmeryTech, a recently renovated creative office campus in Emeryville, for $55.5 million, a steep discount that lets the San...
Roxborough Group Acquires 131,000 SQFT Main Street Cupertino Retail Center for $130MM
An affiliate of San Francisco-based Roxborough Group has purchased Main Street Cupertino, the dining and retail hub sitting less than a mile from...
San Jose Approves Urban Catalyst’s 276-Unit Gifford Project Amid Resident Appeal
San Jose’s planning staff cleared an eight-story, 276-unit apartment project near Diridon Station this week, but the approval is already headed to the...
Acclaim Companies to Break Ground on 368-Unit Mixed-Use Development at 3150 El Camino Real in Palo Alto
Acclaim Companies will start construction on Aug. 11 on one of Palo Alto’s largest apartment communities, a seven-story, 368-unit mixed-use project that is...
Five Point Moves Candlestick Toward Construction, Courts AI Anchor for 2.8MM SQFT Campus in San Francisco
Five Point Holdings is pushing its long-dormant Candlestick redevelopment back toward construction and preparing to hunt for a marquee technology tenant, positioning the...
Westbank Activates Vacant Davidson Building With Arts Hub as 18-Story San Jose Tower Waits in the Wings
A nonprofit arts operator is moving artists into the ground floor of a long-vacant downtown San Jose building that developer Westbank intends to...
Oakland Puts Foreclosure Transfer Tax on November Ballot, Targeting Up to $13MM a Year From Downtown Distress
Oakland has advanced a November ballot measure that would strip a long-standing exemption from its real estate transfer tax and turn the city’s...
Federal Government Leases 52,000 SQFT at 10730 International Drive in Rancho Cordova, Q2’s Largest Sacramento Office Deal
The U.S. General Services Administration signed a 52,147-square-foot lease at 10730 International Drive in Rancho Cordova, the largest office transaction in the Sacramento...