Residential
San Jose Advances General Plan Housing Overhaul, Defers Density Quadrupling to 2027
San Jose's City Council endorsed the broad framework of a sweeping General Plan housing overhaul on Aug. 18 but declined to lock in...
New Federal Housing Law Hands Northern California Fresh Levers on Supply, But Leaves Zoning Untouched
The nation’s first comprehensive federal housing package in decades arms Northern California developers and lenders with new incentives for adaptive reuse, small-dollar lending...
D.R. Horton’s Affordability Play Runs Into California’s $843,000 Median as Q3 Margins Hold
D.R. Horton’s affordability-first strategy collides with a Northern California market where the typical home costs more than twice the statewide median and far...
San Francisco Cuts Inclusionary Housing Rate to 5%, Exempts Projects Under 24 Units
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 on Tuesday to cut the city’s inclusionary housing requirement from 15 percent to 5 percent...
Treasure Island Developers Pivot 148-Unit 490 Avenue of the Palms From Condos to Rentals, With Penthouses at $18,000 a Month
Treasure Island Development Group has abandoned its plan to sell the 148 homes at 490 Avenue of the Palms as condominiums, instead opening...
California Strips Brisbane of Local Control After City Misses Rezoning Deadline on 660-Acre Baylands Project
State housing regulators have decertified the San Mateo County city of Brisbane after it failed to rezone the sprawling Baylands redevelopment on time,...
Bay Area Housing Already Runs Hot on AI Money, and the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs Are the Larger Wave Still to Come
San Francisco’s housing market has already repriced on artificial intelligence wealth, pushing the median single-family home to a record $2.15 million, and the...
KB Home’s California-Led West Coast Bucks the Slump on Orders as Prices Retreat
KB Home’s West Coast region, anchored by its core California markets, was the lone bright spot for new orders in a difficult second...
Entitled 787-Unit American River One Project in Sacramento’s River District Listed for Sale or Equity Partnership
Colliers is marketing the land and entitlements for American River One at 450 and 500 Bercut Drive, where owner Steve Ayers is seeking...
High Street Residential Pushes 105-Home DePaul Residences Forward in Morgan Hill as Draft EIR Opens for Public Review
High Street Residential’s plan to convert a vacant 15.8-acre commercial site at Cochrane Road and DePaul Drive in Morgan Hill into a 105-home...
John Burns Says Land Markets Enter “Selective Growth” Phase as Builders Push 73% of Lots Off Balance Sheet
Ken Perlman’s 2026 land playbook lays out a market split between A-and-B winners and C-and-D laggards, with land banking, attainable product and master-planned...
Berkshire Hathaway Strikes $8.5B Deal to Take Taylor Morrison Private in Buffett-Era Housing Bet
All-cash .50-per-share offer hands Greg Abel his first marquee acquisition and gives Berkshire its first production-scale homebuilder. Warren Buffett’s successor wasted little time...
