San José Adopts Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan to Address Growing Wildfire, Flood, and Heat Risks
The City Council-approved plan complements the city’s existing emissions reduction strategy and places vulnerable communities at the center of its adaptation framework. On...
35-Unit Flatiron-Style Apartment Building Advances With Updated Design in San Francisco’s Mission District
The eight-story residential project on a triangular parcel near the 24th Street BART Station leverages California’s State Density Bonus Law and Senate Bill...
28-Unit East Sacramento Apartment Project Scaled Back as Developer Focuses on Balancing Density With Livability
Carlos Veliz of Anchor Investment Firm adjusts plans for the six-story project at 3000 T Street, trimming units from 33 to 28 while...
Kennedy Wilson Acquires Landmark 601 City Center Tower in Downtown Oakland Through Foreclosure
The Beverly Hills-based firm purchased the loan on the 23-story Blue Shield headquarters tower before proceeding with foreclosure, assuming just $63.8 million of...
GoDaddy Renews 40,000 SQFT Lease at The Quad at Tasman in Santa Clara, Boosting South Bay Development’s Post-SVB Repositioning Play
The domain registrar and web services giant’s lease renewal at 3032 Bunker Hill Lane validates the Los Gatos-based investor’s discounted acquisition of the...
Cruise Renews 59,000 SQFT Sunnyvale Office Lease as GM Plots Major Bay Area Consolidation
The former robotaxi subsidiary’s lease renewal at SteelWave’s 840 W California Avenue comes as General Motors prepares to consolidate roughly 1 million square...
Silicon Valley Office Leasing Reaches Post-Pandemic High of 3.2MM SQFT as AI and Tech Firms Drive Recovery
Subheading: Technology companies accounted for all 10 of Silicon Valley’s largest Q1 2026 office transactions, led by OpenAI’s 447,000-square-foot lease in Mountain View,...
AI Demand Propels San Francisco Office Leasing to Strongest Quarter Since 2014 as Market Absorbs Excess Supply
Subheading: Artificial intelligence firms led by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks drove 3.8 million square feet of leasing activity in Q1 2026, though availability...
Bayspring Development Partners Proposes 294-Unit Apartment Project in Sausalito
The six-story development at One Harbor Drive would replace an existing office building with housing, parking, and on-site amenities near the city’s waterfront...
Cresleigh Homes Wins Campbell Planning Approval for 120-Home Mixed-Use Project
Revised six-story proposal replaces decade-old plan on prominent vacant site between Downtown Campbell and The Pruneyard A long-vacant site along one of Campbell’s...
Property Owners Submit 324-Home Mixed-Use Proposal for Former Hick’ry Pit Site in Campbell
Development application marks new chapter for 2.4-acre site along East Campbell Avenue corridor, adding to city’s growing housing pipeline The site of one...
Occupancy Rises at Hacienda as Diverse Industries Expand in Tri-Valley
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, recorded a modest increase in total occupancy to 6,581,927 square feet in March, up...
San José Adopts Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan to Address Growing Wildfire, Flood, and Heat Risks
The City Council-approved plan complements the city’s existing emissions reduction strategy and places vulnerable communities at the center of its adaptation framework. On...
Silicon Valley Office Leasing Reaches Post-Pandemic High of 3.2MM SQFT as AI and Tech Firms Drive Recovery
Subheading: Technology companies accounted for all 10 of Silicon Valley’s largest Q1 2026 office transactions, led by OpenAI’s 447,000-square-foot lease in Mountain View,...
AI Demand Propels San Francisco Office Leasing to Strongest Quarter Since 2014 as Market Absorbs Excess Supply
Subheading: Artificial intelligence firms led by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks drove 3.8 million square feet of leasing activity in Q1 2026, though availability...
Alex Mehran Is Betting the Family Legacy on Turning Bishop Ranch Into a Neighborhood
The third-generation CEO of Sunset Development is staking his tenure on a 2,510-home project that would transform his family’s suburban office campus into...
SFF Realty Partners Closes Oversubscribed $500MM Fund Targeting Bay Area Office and R&D
Formerly known as PSAI Realty Partners, the San Francisco-based firm raised its fifth value-add fund in 12 months as institutional capital returns to...
Trust for Public Land Secures $175MM Option to Buy Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley, Plans Massive East Bay Waterfront Park
The $175 million deal to acquire the 161-acre former horse racing track from the Stronach Group would create 8.5 miles of connected public...
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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...
OpenAI Completes 280,000 SQFT Sublease at 1800 Owens Street, Pushing San Francisco Footprint Past 1 Million SQFT
The ChatGPT maker’s takeover of former Dropbox space at The Exchange in Mission Bay cements the AI giant’s dominance as the city’s largest...
San Francisco VC Funding Tops $43.8 Billion in Early 2026 After Record $116.94 Billion Year as AI Mega-Rounds Reshape Office Market
OpenAI’s $40 billion raise led the largest deal tally ever recorded while 2026 is already on pace to match prior-year totals, with $43.8...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Community HousingWorks Pays $10.2MM for Downtown Oakland Site, Advances 284-Unit Affordable Housing Tower
The San Diego-based affordable housing developer acquired three parcels at 1523 Harrison Street for $10.2 million and secured $39.6 million in financing from...
Merced Residential Care Advances 49-Bed Senior Care Facility in San Francisco’s Outer Mission
The four-story residential care facility for the elderly would deliver approximately 26,500 square feet to the Outer Mission neighborhood, where an unfulfilled 2016...
Valiance Capital Scales Back Proposed Apartment Project in Berkeley’s Southside to 45 Units
Updated plans reduce the previously approved 65-unit development near UC Berkeley to a seven-story building with approximately 49,950 square feet, following the project’s...
Anthropic Expands Downtown San Francisco Footprint with 100,000 SQFT Lease at 400 Howard Street
Claude maker adds three floors at Foundry Square I just months after securing entire office tower across the street, pushing its citywide commitments...
DivCore Capital, ICONIQ, and Sentral Launch $2.5 Billion Multifamily Investment Platform Targeting Major U.S. Markets
SAN FRANCISCO-DivCore Capital today announced the launch of a new residential investment platform, Sentral Strategic Partners, alongside ICONIQ and Sentral that is designed...
SSP Investments Acquires 27,200 SQFT Kaiser Permanente Medical Office in San Rafael for $9.2MM
Bay Area family office expands medical portfolio through 1031 exchange as national MOB investment volume surges 35 percent year-over-year San Jose-based SSP Investments...
Alex Mehran Is Betting the Family Legacy on Turning Bishop Ranch Into a Neighborhood
The third-generation CEO of Sunset Development is staking his tenure on a 2,510-home project that would transform his family’s suburban office campus into...
SFF Realty Partners Closes Oversubscribed $500MM Fund Targeting Bay Area Office and R&D
Formerly known as PSAI Realty Partners, the San Francisco-based firm raised its fifth value-add fund in 12 months as institutional capital returns to...