Multifamily
San Jose Approves Urban Catalyst’s 645-Unit Icon/Echo Project on Former Chevron Site
A scaled-back version of Urban Catalyst’s long-planned Icon/Echo development in the city’s Civic Center neighborhood was approved during a San Jose Planning Director...
Why the San Francisco Bay Area Is Missing From the 2026 Apartment Absorption Leaderboard
The San Francisco Bay Area was conspicuously missing from a national ranking of the strongest apartment markets for first-half 2026 net absorption, an...
Eight-Story, 151-Unit Condo Project Would Replace Burger King on San Mateo’s El Camino Real
A Livermore-based ownership group has filed a preliminary application under California's Housing Crisis Act to demolish the drive-thru Burger King at El Camino...
Rainbow Housing Assistance Corp Acquires 231-Unit City Towers for $35.2MM in West Oakland
Rainbow Housing Assistance Corp. closed on a $35.2 million acquisition of City Towers, a 231-unit high-rise complex in West Oakland, preserving the property’s...
Kimco Realty Seeks Four-Year Extension as San Jose’s Cambrian Park Plaza Redevelopment Stalls
Six years after San Jose blessed one of its most ambitious suburban makeovers, the owner of Cambrian Park Plaza is asking the city...
Valley Oak Partners Charts Path to 584-Home Redevelopment of Oracle’s Santa Clara Campus
Valley Oak Partners has laid out a detailed timeline for converting nearly 500,000 square feet of vacant Oracle office space in Santa Clara...
Silicon Valley Multifamily Rebounds as Rent Growth Outruns Rising Costs and Sales Top $2 Billion
A resurgent apartment market across Silicon Valley’s core submarkets is delivering the strongest rent growth in years, reviving transaction velocity and drawing institutional...
Fifth Space Lands $200MM From JPMorgan Chase for 342 Units in San Francisco as Middle-Income Fund Debuts
The bank's second infusion into the 29-acre Dogpatch megaproject pairs a construction loan for a 342-unit building with equity in an untested fund,...
Brokers Turn to Autonomous AI Agents to Automate Rent Comp Tracking
Commercial real estate brokers are increasingly handing rote market research to autonomous AI agents that assemble proprietary comp databases and monitor rival properties...
Jay Paul Company Lands First Permits for 680-Unit CityView Conversion in Downtown San Jose
Downtown San Jose’s largest office landlord is now building homes where it once planned towers of desks, as Jay Paul Company clears the...
AI Momentum Powers San Francisco and Silicon Valley in Summer 2026 Allen Matkins Survey, Yet Bay Area Developers Hold Back
Northern California’s commercial real estate developers are betting on an artificial-intelligence-fueled rebound in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, but persistent cost and interest-rate...
Essex Property Trust Settles RealPage Rent-Algorithm Antitrust Case for $36.5MM
Essex Property Trust used its second-quarter earnings report to disclose it had fully resolved the closely watched antitrust claims tied to RealPage’s rent-setting...
