Residential
US Forest Service Backs California Mass Timber, Mills With $2.2MM Share of $105.5MM Wood Grants
The U.S. Forest Service has directed roughly $2.2 million of a $105.5 million national wood innovation grant round to seven California projects, funding...
Dinerstein Companies Pays $59.4MM for 475-Bed San Jose State Student Housing Complex
At roughly $125,000 per bed, the deal lands slightly below the national student housing average even though the property sits a block from...
AvalonBay-Equity Merger Values San Jose’s 218-Unit Avalon at Cahill Park at $102.2MM
The 218-unit Diridon Station-area property topped the per-unit pricing of every other asset in a Bay Area apartment sweep tied to the AvalonBay-Equity...
Trumark Homes Secures 195 Lots for Two New Neighborhoods at San Ramon’s Bishop Ranch
Trumark Homes has secured 195 lots on the northwestern edge of San Ramon's Bishop Ranch to build The Trails, a pair of for-sale...
C.A.R.-Backed Nonprofit Sues San Francisco Over Limits on SB 79 Transit Housing
A California Association of Realtors-backed nonprofit has sued San Francisco, alleging the city illegally carved out swaths of land from a new state...
Habitat for Humanity Advances Marin County’s Largest Affordable Homeownership Community on PG&E-Donated Novato Site
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco is pressing ahead with a for-sale affordable housing community on a 13.5-acre PG&E-donated parcel along Novato's Redwood...
SummerHill Apartment Communities Secures $124MM From Fifth Third, CB&T and TruAmerica to Build 251-Unit San Carlos Apartment Project
SHAC has assembled a $123.5 million capital stack to break ground on its largest housing project on the Peninsula, marking TruAmerica Multifamily's debut...
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...
