San Francisco’s 4.1MM SQFT First Quarter Shatters Three Decades of Leasing Records as AI Rewrites the City’s Office Playbook
Only Q2 2014 posted stronger activity in the past 30 years as vacancy plunges, absorption surges, and sublease inventory evaporates at record pace....
San José City College Opens $167MM, 120,000 SQFT Career Education Complex, Reframing Trade Education as Silicon Valley Infrastructure
The four-story Steinberg Hart-designed facility consolidates 15 career programs under one roof and arrives as the region confronts a widening technical-workforce gap. San...
Goldman Sachs Lists 19-Acre Southline Phase 2 Development Site for Sale in South San Francisco
The underutilized infill parcel at 275 and 325 South Maple Avenue offers flexible zoning for up to 2 million square feet of advanced...
UBS Realty Investors Markets 374,200 SQFT Office Tower at 455 Market Street in San Francisco’s South Financial District
The granite-clad Class A property hits the market as citywide leasing momentum and a wave of competing trophy listings reshape investor expectations. UBS...
BXP Completes 200,000+ SQFT of Leasing at 680 Folsom and 50 Hawthorne in San Francisco’s South Financial District
Dropbox, Decagon, and Swinerton Builders among new leases underscoring strong demand in the city’s leading innovation corridor SAN FRANCISCO (April 15, 2026) –...
Sobrato Organization Secures Approvals for 330,000 SQFT Office Campus at 3000 Bowers Avenue in Santa Clara
The Mountain View-based developer plans to redevelop a 7-acre former warehouse site into two five-story Class A office buildings with a multi-story parking...
San Francisco VC Funding Hits $169.34B in Early 2026, Outpacing All of 2025
AI companies capture 50 percent of global venture capital as San Francisco consolidates its position as the undisputed center of the artificial intelligence...
AI Giants and Retail Heavyweights Fuel 9.6MM SQFT Demand Surge in San Francisco Office Market
Tech and AI companies drive more than half of tenant activity as Q1 2026 leasing hits second-highest quarterly total in three decades. San...
Rialto Capital Pursues Foreclosure Auction on 35,000 SQFT Office Building in San Francisco After $15.7MM Loan Default
The 1923 Class B building above the Montgomery BART station has lost 63 percent of its value since Paragon Co. acquired it for...
San Francisco Peninsula Office Market Hits 60,000 SQFT Positive Absorption as Leasing Activity Rebounds in Q1 2026
Rising rents and renewed tenant demand signal early stabilization, even as vacancy climbs to 24.9 percent across the region A year of uneven...
Goldstone Management Proposes 345-Unit, 24-Story Tower in San Rafael
The 260-foot mixed-use project would become the tallest building in Marin County, pairing a market hall with several hundred apartments in the heart...
Occupancy Rises at Hacienda as Diverse Industries Expand in Tri-Valley
Pleasanton, Calif. – Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, recorded a modest increase in total occupancy to 6,581,927 square feet in March, up...
San Francisco’s 4.1MM SQFT First Quarter Shatters Three Decades of Leasing Records as AI Rewrites the City’s Office Playbook
Only Q2 2014 posted stronger activity in the past 30 years as vacancy plunges, absorption surges, and sublease inventory evaporates at record pace....
San José City College Opens $167MM, 120,000 SQFT Career Education Complex, Reframing Trade Education as Silicon Valley Infrastructure
The four-story Steinberg Hart-designed facility consolidates 15 career programs under one roof and arrives as the region confronts a widening technical-workforce gap. San...
San Francisco VC Funding Hits $169.34B in Early 2026, Outpacing All of 2025
AI companies capture 50 percent of global venture capital as San Francisco consolidates its position as the undisputed center of the artificial intelligence...
AI Giants and Retail Heavyweights Fuel 9.6MM SQFT Demand Surge in San Francisco Office Market
Tech and AI companies drive more than half of tenant activity as Q1 2026 leasing hits second-highest quarterly total in three decades. San...
San Francisco Peninsula Office Market Hits 60,000 SQFT Positive Absorption as Leasing Activity Rebounds in Q1 2026
Rising rents and renewed tenant demand signal early stabilization, even as vacancy climbs to 24.9 percent across the region A year of uneven...
NVIDIA Executive’s Estimated $24.6MM Gift Establishes Applied AI Center at Santa Clara University
The Cunningham Shoquist Center for Applied AI and Human Potential becomes the university’s fourth Center of Distinction, funded by a gift from NVIDIA’s...
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Arevon Begins Construction on $600MM Cormorant Energy Storage Project in Daly City
Cormorant advances local economic investment through jobs, tax revenue, and community partnerships, reinforcing Arevon’s position as a leading battery storage developer in the...
Essex Property Trust Doubles Down on Northern California With $830MM Acquisition Spree as AI-Fueled Demand Drives Rent Growth
The apartment REIT deployed more capital into the Bay Area than any other region in 2025, acquiring seven communities as Northern California posted...
North American Life Sciences Sector Grapples With Supply Glut as 55% of Recent Lab Deliveries Sit Vacant
A pandemic-era construction wave has collided with cooling demand, leaving nearly 60 million square feet of new lab space struggling to find tenants...
Basin Street Properties Announces Three Leadership Promotions
RENO, NV (April 14, 2026) – Basin Street Properties announced the promotions of Elaine Nelson to Vice President of Operations, Stephen Biehle to...
Bay Area Council Announces Libby Schaaf as New President and CEO
The Sobrato Organization CEO Tony Mestres Elected Board Chair to succeed Kristina Lawson as her term ends The Bay Area Council today (April...
CBRE Elevates Mike Taquino and Kyle Kovac to Lead San Francisco Bay Area Office Capital Markets
The team has advised on more than $30 billion in commercial real estate transactions San Francisco – March 18, 2026 – CBRE announced...
Orange Buensuceso Promoted to Director of San Francisco at FPBA
Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects (FPBA) has promoted Orange Buensuceso, AIA, LEED AP, to Director of San Francisco, a milestone that takes on added...
Kilroy Realty Corporation Announces Board Refreshment
LOS ANGELES–Kilroy Realty Corporation (NYSE: KRC) (“Kilroy” or the “Company”) today announced leadership changes on the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) and...
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...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
The Buyer Who Wasn’t There
The record gap between home sellers and buyers reveals a tale of two Americas—Sun Belt markets drowning in oversupply while Northern cities with...
Feed the Machine: AI Could Unjam San Francisco’s 280-Day Permitting Nightmare
The city knows its building codes better than anyone. The problem is it takes 280 days to prove it. What if a computer...
An Approval is Not a Building Permit
Why the hand-wringing over Google’s empty San Jose acreage misses the point entirely. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Bounded by Sea, Strangled by Trusts
Every acre we preserve is an acre we can’t build on—and the housing math is catching up By Billy the Broker (I just...
Menlo Park Planning Commission Unanimously Backs Meta’s Three-Story East Campus Atrium
Commissioners voted 7-0 to recommend approval of building height increases and major modifications that would allow Meta to modernize Buildings 10, 12, and...
Replit Renews and Expands 147,000 SQFT Foster City HQ Amid $9 Billion Valuation Surge
The AI-powered coding platform doubles down on its San Francisco Peninsula office footprint as demand for vibe coding tools and agentic software creation...
Cooley LLP Signs 120,000 SQFT Lease at Planned 1900 Broadway Tower in Downtown Redwood City
The Silicon Valley law firm’s anchor commitment to the seven-story mixed-use project by Lane Partners and Kilroy Realty could unlock construction financing for...
Solace Health Leases Entire 71,330 SQFT Office Building at 610 Walnut Street in Downtown Redwood City
The digital health platform’s full-building commitment fills a Class A office that had sat empty since its 2021 completion, a milestone for the...
NVIDIA Executive’s Estimated $24.6MM Gift Establishes Applied AI Center at Santa Clara University
The Cunningham Shoquist Center for Applied AI and Human Potential becomes the university’s fourth Center of Distinction, funded by a gift from NVIDIA’s...
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...
East West Bank Schedules May 7 Foreclosure Auction for HP Investors’ 206,000-SQFT Edgewater Park Plaza Office Complex Near Oakland Airport
The San Diego-based investor purchased the two-building office park for $35.7 million in 2022, and now faces more than $21 million in unpaid...
Silicon Valley’s Three Power Cities Are Betting Big on AI, Fee Relief, and a Tripled Power Grid
At a CREW Silicon Valley luncheon, deputy city managers from Santa Clara, San Jose, and Sunnyvale laid out an aggressive playbook: defer fees,...
