San Francisco
Opponents Vow Appeal to San Francisco Judge’s Ruling to Allow $2.3 Billion State Building Sale
By Sharon Simonson The state of California is free to proceed with the $2.33 billion sale of 11 office buildings under an order...
San Francisco SoMa Building Listed for Sale
By Sharon Simonson A private, Denver-based real estate company with business interests in the transportation and energy sectors has listed for sale a...
San Francisco Superior Court to Hear Challenge to State Buildings Sale
By Sharon Simonson A lawsuit opposing the $2.3 billion sale of 11 state buildings to a Hines company partnership has its first hearing...
Commercial Lenders Nibbling At the Edges
By Sharon Simonson Commercial real estate property lenders are back in the market, but their attention is selective and their demands are...
BioMed: New South San Francisco Properties’ Yield Approaches 10 Percent
By Jon Peterson San Diego-based BioMed Realty Trust anticipates higher than 9 percent cash-on-cash initial return from its $298 million South San Francisco...
CalPERS Drops BlackRock as Apartment Manager
By Jon Peterson Eighty-five hundred employees in 24 countries were not enough to allow asset-management behemoth BlackRock Inc. to hang on at the...
TMG Partners Makes the Grade
By Jon PetersonSan Francisco-based TMG Partners has survived a review of investment managers by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. CalPERS, the largest...
CalPERS Evaluates Future of CalSmart Investment Program
By Jon Peterson CalPERS, the country’s largest public employees retirement system, may be abandoning a real estate investment vehicle at the heart of...
New Apartment Construction Thin
By Sharon Simonson A year ago, parents were unwilling to help pay apartment rents for adult children even if only to get them...
CalPERS Expands Real Estate Consultant Pool
By Jon Peterson The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has more than tripled the size of a standing pool of real-estate consultants from...
Cupertino’s Cypress Hotel Note Trades at Discount
By Jon Peterson Boston-based AEW Capital Management has taken ownership of the 224-room Cypress Hotel in Cupertino by buying the property mortgage and...
Loan on Mission Bay Offices Sold at Deep Discount
By Jon Peterson A $90 million construction loan on the 500 Terry Francois office building in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco...
