INDUSTRY news
Barker Pacific, Partners Buy A.F. Evans Affordable Apartments
Sharon Simonson A venture that includes San Francisco’s Barker Pacific Group Inc. has acquired the general partner interests in 20 multifamily properties—half in...
SF Market Street Building Near Twitter Up For Grabs
Jon Peterson The California State Compensation Insurance Fund has put its downtown San Francisco headquarters up for sale. The 1275 Market St. property...
California Teachers Looks for New Fund Managers
Jon Peterson The California State Teachers’ Retirement System is seeking proposals from real estate fund managers to oversee up to $1 billion or...
Bay Area Retail Leads National Recovery
Sharon Simonson San Francisco and the South Bay are among the top 10 healthiest retail markets in the nation, according to a new...
More Pile Into Bay Area Apartments
By Jon Peterson Chicago-based multifamily-property owner Waterton Residential plans to grow its San Francisco Bay Area footprint with the recent closing of its...
CalSTRS Allocates $400M to Senior Housing and Industrial
By Jon Peterson The California State Teachers’ Retirement System is going long on the old. The second-largest public employee retirement plan in the...
Caltrain Slides Closer To Big Service Cuts
By Sharon Simonson The Caltrain governing board is expected to declare a fiscal emergency for the beleaguered commuter-rail service at a March 3...
CalPERS Recommits to Real Estate
By Jon Peterson CalPERS could invest as much as $1.5 billion in commercial real estate next year, up from a fraction of that...
BRE Apartments Building, Buying
By Sharon Simonson San Francisco-based apartment owner BRE Properties Inc. told analysts it did not expect to buy nearly as much in 2011...
Industrial Giant To Span Globe, Bay Area
By Sharon Simonson The merged AMB Property Corp. and ProLogis company would own and manage close to 19 million square feet of Bay...
Capmark Puts Silicon Valley Office Portfolio on the Market
By Jon Peterson Horsham, Penn.,-based Capmark Financial Group Inc. is selling a portfolio of eight Silicon Valley office and research and development buildings...
Bidders for State Buildings Wait, Wonder
By Sharon Simonson Real estate investors who sought to acquire 11 state of California office buildings say they are watching with interest an...