Industry Contributors & Editorial
The Kids Are Not Alright: Why Your 30-Something Children Still Live at Home
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) If you’re wondering why your college-educated offspring are still camped out in their childhood bedrooms...
McNellis: Death of a Deal
By John McNellis In Rochambeau, paper beats rock. In life, paper sometimes beats deals. We own a shopping center in a Sacramento suburb...
Bed Bath & Begone: Why Executives Blame California for Their Own Incompetence
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Marcus Lemonis, the executive chairman of Beyond, Inc. (the phoenix supposedly rising from Bed Bath...
Is AI The New Dot Com Boom For San Francisco’s Office Market?
The Key Differences That Landlords Need to Know By Hans Hansson, President and founder of Starboard CRE San Francisco, a city synonymous with...
The Vibe Mayor Changes San Francisco
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Six months ago, if you told me I’d be dubbing a San Francisco...
Legal and Business Considerations for C-PACE Lenders During Origination and Entry Into the ABS Secondary Markets
By Diana Ovsepian With the rapid expansion of Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (CPACE) financing into mainstream commercial real estate transactions, industry stakeholders...
California’s Housing Development Ship Has Sailed—In the Wrong Direction
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Remember when California Forever was going to solve our housing crisis? When Jan...
Making Room at the Table: The Case for Mixed-Income Housing
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) While not even the crankiest economist would claim that housing is simple, our approach to...
Home Building’s Private Equity Shuffle
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Just when you thought the housing market couldn’t get more interesting, Apollo Global Management decided...
Oakland’s Uptown Revival: Will All Boats Rise with the Tide?
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Uptown Oakland is trying—for the second time in a decade—to reinvent itself. First came the...
Letter from The Publisher: The Real Cost of Northwestern’s San Francisco Retreat
Vladimir Bosanac expresses deep regret over Northwestern University's decision to close its San Francisco campus in 2026, emphasizing its role in fostering connections...
Blackstone’s Strategic Bay Area Grocery Portfolio Acquisition Valued at $633MM
Blackstone Real Estate's $4 billion acquisition of Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. significantly impacts the Bay Area commercial market, encompassing 1.4 million square feet...
