Bell Partners Acquires 195-Unit Celeste Apartments From Sares Regis in South San Francisco for $130MM
Bell Partners has acquired Celeste Apartments, a 195-unit luxury community adjacent to the South San Francisco Caltrain station, marking the second time in...
Cannae Partners Acquires 234,016 SQFT EmeryTech Office Campus in Emeryville for $55.5MM
Cannae Partners has purchased EmeryTech, a recently renovated creative office campus in Emeryville, for $55.5 million, a steep discount that lets the San...
Roxborough Group Acquires 131,000 SQFT Main Street Cupertino Retail Center for $130MM
An affiliate of San Francisco-based Roxborough Group has purchased Main Street Cupertino, the dining and retail hub sitting less than a mile from...
San Jose Approves Urban Catalyst’s 276-Unit Gifford Project Amid Resident Appeal
San Jose’s planning staff cleared an eight-story, 276-unit apartment project near Diridon Station this week, but the approval is already headed to the...
Acclaim Companies to Break Ground on 368-Unit Mixed-Use Development at 3150 El Camino Real in Palo Alto
Acclaim Companies will start construction on Aug. 11 on one of Palo Alto’s largest apartment communities, a seven-story, 368-unit mixed-use project that is...
Westbank Activates Vacant Davidson Building With Arts Hub as 18-Story San Jose Tower Waits in the Wings
A nonprofit arts operator is moving artists into the ground floor of a long-vacant downtown San Jose building that developer Westbank intends to...
Five Point Moves Candlestick Toward Construction, Courts AI Anchor for 2.8MM SQFT Campus in San Francisco
Five Point Holdings is pushing its long-dormant Candlestick redevelopment back toward construction and preparing to hunt for a marquee technology tenant, positioning the...
Oakland Puts Foreclosure Transfer Tax on November Ballot, Targeting Up to $13MM a Year From Downtown Distress
Oakland has advanced a November ballot measure that would strip a long-standing exemption from its real estate transfer tax and turn the city’s...
Federal Government Leases 52,000 SQFT at 10730 International Drive in Rancho Cordova, Q2’s Largest Sacramento Office Deal
The U.S. General Services Administration signed a 52,147-square-foot lease at 10730 International Drive in Rancho Cordova, the largest office transaction in the Sacramento...
San Jose Council to Weigh Citywide Upzoning That Would Quadruple Neighborhood Density in Aug. 18 Vote
San Jose’s City Council is heading toward an Aug. 18 decision on a general plan overhaul that would legalize small multifamily housing by...
Oakland Retail Occupancy Climbs to 92% in Q2 as Rockridge, Grand Lake Outrun Bay Area Rivals
Oakland’s three marquee retail corridors tightened again in the second quarter of 2026, lifting combined occupancy to 92.48 percent even as Montclair Village...
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy, positive...
Five Point Moves Candlestick Toward Construction, Courts AI Anchor for 2.8MM SQFT Campus in San Francisco
Five Point Holdings is pushing its long-dormant Candlestick redevelopment back toward construction and preparing to hunt for a marquee technology tenant, positioning the...
Oakland Puts Foreclosure Transfer Tax on November Ballot, Targeting Up to $13MM a Year From Downtown Distress
Oakland has advanced a November ballot measure that would strip a long-standing exemption from its real estate transfer tax and turn the city’s...
San Jose Council to Weigh Citywide Upzoning That Would Quadruple Neighborhood Density in Aug. 18 Vote
San Jose’s City Council is heading toward an Aug. 18 decision on a general plan overhaul that would legalize small multifamily housing by...
Oakland Retail Occupancy Climbs to 92% in Q2 as Rockridge, Grand Lake Outrun Bay Area Rivals
Oakland’s three marquee retail corridors tightened again in the second quarter of 2026, lifting combined occupancy to 92.48 percent even as Montclair Village...
DivcoWest Closes on 47.5% of San Francisco’s 101 California Tower in ~$450MM Trophy Office Deal
DivcoWest has completed its purchase of a 47.5 percent stake in 101 California Street, finalizing San Francisco’s largest office transaction in more than...
San Francisco’s Record $16.9B Budget Rests on Commercial Real Estate’s Fragile Rebound
San Francisco’s largest-ever budget quietly wagers its balance on a commercial property recovery that is gathering speed but remains far from complete, tying...
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Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy,...
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Federal Government Leases 52,000 SQFT at 10730 International Drive in Rancho Cordova, Q2’s Largest Sacramento Office Deal
The U.S. General Services Administration signed a 52,147-square-foot lease at 10730 International Drive in Rancho Cordova, the largest office transaction in the Sacramento...
Google Renews 2.1 Million SQFT Across Moffett Place and Moffett Gateway in Sunnyvale
A reversal from Google’s 2023 sublease push, the renewal lands as Silicon Valley vacancy hits a Bay Area low and Amazon, OpenAI and...
Amazon’s 317,000 SQFT Moffett Towers Lease Steadies Jay Paul’s $770MM Sunnyvale Loan After Google Exit
Amazon’s commitment to fully occupy one of the three towers securing Jay Paul Company’s $770 million Moffett Towers mortgage removes the single largest...
Marin County Community Development Agency Issues Final Building Permit for 125-Unit Marinwood Apartments in San Rafael
Construction to begin on 125-unit affordable housing community Marin County, CA — An affordable housing development in unincorporated Marin has reached a significant...
GM Lands Nearly 340,000 SQFT Palo Alto Campus at Stanford Research Park, Picking Broadcom Site Over Sunnyvale
General Motors has signed a lease for nearly 340,000 square feet at the former Broadcom campus in Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park, ending...
San Francisco Office Leasing Hits 6.1MM SQFT in H1 2026, Best First Half Since 2000 as Vacancy Slides to 30.1%
San Francisco’s office market has strung together its strongest first-half leasing performance in a quarter century, with AI-driven demand pulling vacancy and sublease...
San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. Taps Housing-Finance Veteran to Lead Office-to-Housing Conversion Push
The San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. has recruited longtime Enterprise Community Partners director Geeta Rao as its first vice president of real estate,...
Port of Oakland Commissioners Hand Board Presidency to Stephanie Dominguez Walton as Cargo Volumes Claw Back
The seven-member panel that governs Northern California’s third-busiest container gateway, a 20-mile stretch of Oakland waterfront and a rebounding regional airport has installed...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
Berkadia Taps Veteran Multifamily Executive as Chief Revenue Officer to Unify Mortgage Banking and Investment Sales Platforms
Berkadia has appointed a veteran multifamily capital markets executive as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with unifying and scaling the firm’s...
Suffolk Taps Armond Balaian to Scale Work and Expand New Office in Silicon Valley
Strategic hire strengthens Suffolk’s local leadership as infrastructure needs accelerate across Silicon Valley SAN FRANCISCO – Suffolk, one of the most innovative and...
McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal
By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...
California Never: A New City That Keeps Changing Its Mind
Five identities in three years, zero houses, and one very nervous neighbor. Opinion by Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
The Data Center Bargain: What Every Town Should Demand
Free power. Free heat. Clean water. The bargain every town should be demanding. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bed Bath & Boomerang
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) In August 2025, Marcus Lemonis, the executive chairman of Beyond, Inc.—which is to...
McNellis: F*** Real Estate?
Publisher’s Note What began over a decade ago as a series of candid, sharp-witted articles written for The Registry has grown into one of the...
DivcoWest Closes on 47.5% of San Francisco’s 101 California Tower in ~$450MM Trophy Office Deal
DivcoWest has completed its purchase of a 47.5 percent stake in 101 California Street, finalizing San Francisco’s largest office transaction in more than...
Mindspace Leases 54,000 SQFT at Transamerica Complex for West Coast Flagship in San Francisco
Global flexible-workspace operator Mindspace has committed to 54,000 square feet at the Transamerica complex, nearly tripling its San Francisco footprint and betting on...
Seavest Healthcare Properties Acquires 64,000 SQFT Folsom Office Building for $25.3MM
Seavest Healthcare Properties, a national medical-office investor, paid $25.3 million for the 64,080-square-foot office building at 80 Iron Point Circle in Folsom, a...
City of Berkeley Approves 359-Unit Shattuck Avenue Project After Affordable Housing Fee Debate
A vacant former car dealership site on Shattuck Avenue clears its final hurdle toward 359 apartments and 38 income-restricted units. Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustments...
Hippocratic AI Signs 31,000 SQFT Lease at Kilroy Realty’s 4300 Bohannon Drive in Menlo Park
Healthcare artificial intelligence company Hippocratic AI has committed to 30,857 square feet at Kilroy Realty’s 4300 Bohannon Drive in Menlo Park, one of...
248-Unit Maroa Park Apartments in Fresno Trades for $44MM
A 40-year-old Fresno apartment community just changed hands for the first time — and it’s part of a much bigger Central Valley portfolio...
Marin County Clears $41MM in Bonds for Eden Housing’s 115-Unit Half of Oak Hill Apartments in San Quentin
The Marin County Board of Supervisors has authorized up to $41 million in bonds for Eden Housing’s 115-unit affordable component of Oak Hill...
Discovery Homes Subleases 20,000 SQFT of Industrial Space at 5060 Forni Dr in Concord
Homebuilder Discovery Homes takes 19,528 square feet of sublease space at 5060 Forni Dr as Concord industrial vacancy hits a cycle high.
