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California High-Speed Rail Taps Eight-Firm Momentum Alliance in First Private-Capital Bet to Build Beyond Central Valley
The authority’s Notice of Proposed Award to Momentum Alliance Partners — a consortium spanning five countries — opens a 30-month clock to turn...
Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Survey Finds CRE Distress Has Peaked as Deals Close Despite War-Driven Rate Spike
The Summer 2026 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast survey of California commercial real estate sentiment found that industry distress has peaked and transactions are...
BKM Capital Partners, Kayne Anderson Pick Up Eight East Bay Properties Totaling 1.5MM SQFT as Part of $1.8B Light Industrial Portfolio Acquisition
Acquisition Adds 8.5 Million Square Feet Across National Platform, Positioning BKM and Kayne as one of the Largest Owner-Operators of Multi-Tenant Light Industrial...
Class A+ Office Occupancy Nears 2025 Peak as Kastle Barometer Climbs to 78.6 Percent
Trophy buildings push toward full reoccupation while the broader Kastle index logs its strongest peak day since early March, signaling a widening gap...
Sana’a Cafe Backfills Starbucks Boxes, Lines Up Nationwide Franchise Push by Late 2026
The Hayward-based Yemeni coffee chain has secured more than 30 leases across two states and is courting franchisees in four others, betting that...
California Jobs Engine Stalls in April as Unemployment Holds at 5.3%
The state shed 3,300 nonfarm payroll jobs even as a sixth straight monthly drop in the unemployed pool pointed to a labor market...
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...
T&T Supermarket Opens First California Store June 18 at San Jose’s Westgate Center, Anchoring Multi-City Bay Area Push
The Richmond, B.C.-based Asian supermarket chain debuts at Federal Realty’s Westgate Center, the first of at least five planned California locations as grocery-anchored...
Independent Operators Now Hold the Majority of Oakland’s Coworking Market
A new CoworkingCafe report ranks Oakland 21st nationally, with locally owned operators controlling more than half the city’s flexible workspace market — the...
City Controller: San Francisco Economy Has Reached an Inflection Point
Q1 2026 indicators show tech hiring rebound, office vacancy retreating, and downtown foot traffic climbing as city hits economic inflection point San Francisco’s...
Blackstone Mortgage Trust Covers Dividend Third Straight Quarter as Platform Pivots Toward Data Centers and Net Lease
The $19.7 billion CRE lender posted a GAAP net loss but distributable earnings cleared the dividend hurdle, signaling that a portfolio reset built...
Northern California Carries Essex as Bay Area Tech Demand Outpaces Seattle, Los Angeles in Q1
The West Coast’s largest multifamily REIT beat expectations as cap rate compression and a $62 million stock buyback signaled a private-public valuation gap....
