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San Francisco Building Operations Drive $12.7BN Economic Engine at Nation’s Second-Highest Cost Per Foot
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International quantifies the Bay Area's building-operations economy, finding that San Francisco runs the costliest commercial space in...
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
Oakland Downtown Development Corp. Launches With $2MM, Setting Up Coordination With Benefit Districts
The Oakland Downtown Development Corp. debuted Thursday with $2 million in private backing and an agenda of lighting, safety and street programming that...
Economist Ken Rosen: The Bay Area’s Cheap-Leverage Era Is Over, and Cap Rates Must Rise
Speaking on CBRE's podcast The Weekly Take, veteran economist Ken Rosen said the end of a 17-year run of cheap money will force...
The First Footprints in the Snow
AI’s hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who’s in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...
AI Boom Pushes Bay Area Business AI Use to 31% as San Francisco Office Vacancy Falls
The San Francisco metro now posts the highest business AI-adoption rate of any large U.S. metro the Census Bureau tracks, and the same...
Lurie Declares San Francisco ‘Rent Emergency,’ Backs $30MM Package as AI Boom Drives Record Rents
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a rent emergency and threw his weight behind a roughly $30 million spending plan and six ordinances...
Bay Area Life Science Tops U.S. Funding at $5.6B Even as Lab Vacancy Hits Record 26%
The San Francisco Bay Area remained the country's top destination for life science venture capital in the first half of 2026, drawing $5.6...
Why Institutional Capital Keeps Betting on Student Housing While the Bay Area Stays Underbuilt
Once a fragmented niche, purpose-built student housing has become an institutional asset class drawing billions from Blackstone, KKR and Greystar, and the Bay...
San Jose Retail Vacancy Set to Fall to 4.4% as Experiential Tenants Fuel Silicon Valley Leasing
Marcus & Millichap's Q3 2026 San Jose retail report finds a market tightening on the strength of pickleball courts, fitness operators and a...
Silicon Valley Data Centers Sit Dark Until 2028 as U.S. Buildout Nears $15.1T
Nearly 100 megawatts of finished Silicon Valley data center capacity cannot be energized until Silicon Valley Power completes a $450 million system upgrade...
After the Student-Housing Towers, the Bay Area’s Next Campus Play Is Everything at Their Base
The next round of value creation in university districts is not more student beds but the grocery, retail and hotels that keep them...
