INDUSTRY news
East Coast REIT Buys Leased Sunnyvale Building
By Jon Peterson Newton, Mass., -based Select Income REIT has acquired the 96,415 square foot 350 West Java research and development building in...
Stars Aligned for More Information Tech to Move to Mission Bay
By Jon Peterson The Sobrato Organization plans to target information-technology companies to occupy the balance of the vacant office square footage at its...
Charter School Buys Livermore Offices
By Jon Peterson The Tri-Valley Learning Group has purchased a 105,000-square-foot office building at 3102-3178 Constitution Drive in Livermore, paying $25 million. It...
Five More Years?
By Sharon Simonson The San Francisco Bay Area, already the strongest office market in the nation, is likely to remain so for as...
Global Talent Search Jump-Starts Age of Distributed Real Estate
By Sharon Simonson Thomas Friedman told us in 2005 that the world is flat, earning accolades and book awards for his prescient insight....
TMG Sells Emeryville Center in Latest Bay Area Disposition
By Jon Peterson San Francisco-based TMG Partners and White Plains, N.Y., -based Rockwood Capital have sold the 270,000-square-foot Public Market Emeryville at 5959...
Tech Company Fishes for Talent in Less Crowded Pond
By Sharon Simonson The search for talent is pushing a Menlo Park maker of commercial-grade touch screens and touch monitors to move its...
Just Can’t Get Enough of San Francisco Hotels
By Jon Peterson Two more San Francisco boutique hotels are trading hands, both within the same block of Sutter Street within short walking...
Sunnyvale Rethinks Development of Popular Business Park
By Sharon Simonson Redevelopment pressure is driving the city of Sunnyvale—a big beneficiary of the technology industry boom—to undertake a major rethink of...
Kennedy Wilson Buys First Oakland Apartments
By Jon Peterson Beverly Hills-based Kennedy Wilson captured a 5.7 percent going-in yield on its newly acquired Regency Tower Apartments in the Lake...
North San Jose in Grand Funk?
By Jon Peterson Molasses-slow leasing velocity in North San Jose in the third quarter has landlords and brokers watching the numbers, hoping the performance...
Mountain View Apartments Sell for Sub-5 Percent Yield
By Jon Peterson Boston-based fund manager Rockpoint Group has paid not quite $30 million all cash to buy a 127-unit Mountain View apartment...
