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 report from ChainLinks Retail Advisors, a network...
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 country expects to invest an additional $100 million...
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 board meeting. Such a declaration would allow...
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 sum in the previous 12 months as...
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 as it did last year because prices...
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 Area industrial property, according to research from...
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 that it took back from a borrower...
Broadreach Defaults on Mountain View Property Loan
By Sharon Simonson
Union Bank has filed a notice of default regarding a more than $60 million mortgage against a prominent Mountain View office park owned by Palo Alto real...
San Francisco SoMa Building Listed for Sale
By Sharon Simonson
A private, Denver-based real estate company with business interests in the transportation and energy sectors has listed for sale a 93,000 square-foot office building in San Francisco’s...
Commercial Lenders Nibbling At the Edges
By Sharon Simonson
Commercial real estate property lenders are back in the market, but their attention is selective and their demands are great. While interest is high in lending money,...
