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AvalonBay and Equity Residential Forge $69B Apartment Titan in All-Stock Merger of Equals
The combination of the nation’s two largest multifamily REITs creates a 180,000-unit powerhouse with dominant positions in Los Angeles, New York and Greater...
San Francisco Captures 80% of U.S. AI Venture Capital as Office Leasing Snaps Back
AI tenants leased 10.6 million square feet in San Francisco since 2019, equivalent to roughly 15 Salesforce Towers, pushing net absorption to 3.2...
JLL Forecasts Bay Area Rent Surge and Robotics Boom as VC Investment Captures 79% of US Total
JLL research director Alexander Quinn told East Bay leaders that an AI-fueled investment wave is driving record rents, a manufacturing revival and a...
San Francisco’s Tax Code Emerges as Biggest Drag on Downtown Recovery, New Report Finds
Bay Area Council Economic Institute study shows the city’s business tax burden dwarfs peer cities, with a hypothetical tech firm paying triple what...
Apartment Titans AvalonBay and Equity Residential Eye $50B Merger That Could Redraw US Rental Map
The two largest US apartment REITs are in early-stage talks on a combination that would create a roughly 200,000-unit landlord and reignite REIT...
Bay Area Swallows Q1 Venture Capital as Seattle and Los Angeles Fall Further Behind
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI concentrate $221.1 billion in Northern California while Southern California and the Pacific Northwest scrape single-digit billions in a market...
AI Set to Flatten Office Job Growth Through 2030, Pushing U.S. Vacancy to 21.5%, Newmark Finds
A new Newmark research report forecasts that artificial intelligence will moderate office-using employment to near-zero growth over the next five years, reshaping demand...
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...
Carmel Partners Closes Fund 9 at $1.35 Billion
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2026 – Carmel Partners (“Carmel”) announced today the final close of Carmel Partners Investment Fund 9, its U.S. multifamily real estate value...
The Great Migration: How Population Loss Is Reshaping Bay Area Commercial Real Estate
As census data reveals persistent out-migration, office landlords pivot strategies while housing supply tightens despite multifamily recovery. The San Francisco metropolitan area faces...
Louisiana Teachers’ Retirement System Commits $125MM to Bell Partners Growth and Income Fund Targeting Core Plus Apartments Nationwide
The $27 billion pension fund’s latest real estate allocation will back a multifamily vehicle with a $1.5 billion target and plans to acquire...
Alexandria Real Estate Slashes Dividend 45% as Life Science Downturn Forces Strategy Shift
The pioneering life science REIT posts its fifth consecutive quarterly loss while accelerating asset sales to shore up balance sheet Alexandria Real Estate...
