Residential
AI Boom Pulls Dollars From Home Improvement as Building Products Face a Drawn-Out Recovery
Speaking to building products executives, John Burns Research and Consulting principal Nishu Sood made the case for a slow, uneven recovery stretching into...
Gilbane Development and CBRE Investment Management Open 480-Bed Pique Student Housing Community Near UC Berkeley
Gilbane Development has opened Pique, a purpose-built student housing community a few blocks from the University of California, Berkeley campus, adding more than...
Carmel Partners Buys 263-Unit Silver Apartments in San Jose for $122MM
The $465,000-per-unit price lands near the middle of a run of recent Santa Clara County apartment trades, arriving as Essex’s own leadership points...
SummerHill Advances Formal Plans for 278-Unit Apartment and Townhome Redevelopment of San Mateo’s Shuttered Hillsdale Inn
SummerHill Apartment Communities has taken its long-delayed redevelopment of San Mateo's shuttered Hillsdale Inn a step further, filing formal entitlement plans for 278...
San Jose Advances General Plan Housing Overhaul, Defers Density Quadrupling to 2027
San Jose's City Council endorsed the broad framework of a sweeping General Plan housing overhaul on Aug. 18 but declined to lock in...
Younger Movers Are Softening California’s Exodus, U-Haul Midyear Data Shows, With the Bay Area Among Their Top Draws
U-Haul's 2026 midyear migration report finds Millennials and Generation Z steering their moving trucks into California even as older generations keep heading for...
City Ventures Wins Approval for 137-Unit Townhome Community on Former Industrial Site in Sunnyvale
The approval turns a vacant 4.44-acre industrial parcel at Kifer Road and Uranium Drive into the first residential project in the far reaches...
California’s Renter Majority Faces Deepening Strain as Bay Area Rents Climb 5.8%
California's renter economy has swelled past 16 million people, and a new statewide tenant snapshot shows affordability pressure intensifying just as the Bay...
Vivmark Residential Affiliates Pay $741.8MM for 1,843 Bay Area Apartments in Post-Merger Buying Spree
Vivmark Residential’s affiliates paid $741.8 million for seven Silicon Valley and East Bay apartment complexes bearing AvalonBay’s legacy Avalon and Eaves brands, a...
Lennar Advances 1,251-Home Shafter Neighborhood Squarely in California High-Speed Rail’s Path
Homebuilder Lennar has secured tentative Shafter approval for the final phase of its Gossamer Grove community, planting more than 1,200 single-family lots directly...
American Healthcare REIT Buys 345-Unit Sonrisa Senior Living in Roseville for $94.1MM
American Healthcare REIT has acquired Sonrisa Senior Living, a 345-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care campus in Roseville, for $94.1 million,...
New Federal Housing Law Hands Northern California Fresh Levers on Supply, But Leaves Zoning Untouched
The nation’s first comprehensive federal housing package in decades arms Northern California developers and lenders with new incentives for adaptive reuse, small-dollar lending...
