Seattle
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific's COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
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...
Lone Star Funds Wins Bid for Washington Holdings’ Assets in Portfolio Deal, Outbidding Brookfield and Hines
Dallas-based opportunistic investor clinches the Seattle platform's entire real estate book in one of the largest captive-pension dispositions in recent memory. Lone Star...
JP Morgan Pulls Plug on $1.4B Core-Plus Real Estate Fund Just as Bay Area Office Finds a Bottom
The 24-year-old US Real Estate Income and Growth vehicle posts -9.7 percent three-year returns, forcing a three-year unwind even as San Francisco's AI-led...
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...
San Francisco Captures 80% of U.S. AI Venture Capital as Office Leasing Snaps Back
AI tenants leased 10.6 million square feet in San Francisco since 2019, equivalent to roughly 15 Salesforce Towers, pushing net absorption to 3.2...
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...
Sacramento Lands $3.15MM in Federal Funding for 4-Acre Deck Park Over I-5, Joining Seattle in Race to Reclaim Freeway-Severed Downtowns
Rep. Doris Matsui's Community Project Funding kicks off a $300MM-$400MM effort to stitch downtown Sacramento back to its riverfront, mirroring Pacific Northwest momentum...
San Francisco’s Tax Code Emerges as Biggest Drag on Downtown Recovery, New Report Finds
Bay Area Council Economic Institute study shows the city's business tax burden dwarfs peer cities, with a hypothetical tech firm paying triple what...
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....
D.R. Horton Cuts Forecast as Affordability Bites Into Q2 Margins
America Builder's $7.6 billion quarter showed disciplined execution, but Northwest closings tumbled 19 percent and gross margins compressed under the weight of elevated...
