CalPERS
Avant Doubles Its Money with Vara
By Jon Peterson Dallas-based equity investor Berhringer Harvard has paid $100 million for the 202-unit Vara apartment complex in The Mission district of...
RREEF Founder Scion Awarded $30MM CalPERS Allocation
By Jon Peterson San Francisco-based Sack Properties has received a $30 million equity allocation from a CalPERS program created to help groom the...
Canyon Catalyst Fund Joins With Paragon Commercial Group Through Emerging Manager Program
New partnership will result in $60-100 million of retail investment throughout California LOS ANGELES, Calif. (July 1, 2013)—The Canyon Catalyst Fund has entered...
Downtown Mountain View Retains Investment Charm
By Jon Peterson [dropcap]S[/dropcap]an Francisco-based Rubicon Point Partners has paid $15.86 million, or $550 a square foot, to acquire 274 Castro St. in...
CalPERS Eyeballs Bay Area Industrial Assets
By Jon Peterson San Francisco Bay Area industrial properties are among those targeted for a new industrial investment partnership funded by the California...
Former CalPERS CEO And Former Placement Agent Indicted For Conspiracy And Fraud
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Alfred J. Villalobos, of Reno, Nevada, and Federico R. Buenrostro, Jr., aka...
Essex Still Bullish on San Francisco
By Jon Peterson Essex Property Trust Inc. just can’t get enough of San Francisco. The Palo Alto-based real estate investment trust historically has...
Avant Housing, Essex and BRIDGE Housing Selected to Develop 41-story Apartment Tower on San Francisco’s Transbay Block 9
SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 15, 2013) – A local San Francisco Bay Area partnership led by Avant Housing, LLC, a joint venture between AGI Capital...
Canadian Pension Fund Buys Interests in Bay Area Apartments
By Jon Peterson The Toronto-based Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has acquired a 45 percent interest in three San Francisco Bay Area apartment...
AEW Buys North San Jose Properties
By Jon Peterson Boston-based AEW Capital Management L.P. has bought a 126,000-square-foot Orchard Parkway office and research and development complex in San Jose...
Essex Puts $250 Million into San Francisco Apartments
By Sharon Simonson Palo Alto-based Essex Property Trust Inc. has acquired two San Francisco housing sites in the bustling South of Market district...
Avant Starts 282 Apartments South of Market
By Sharon Simonson Avant Housing breaks ground May 21 on 900 Folsom St., the second of three large San Francisco apartment complexes that...
