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San Francisco’s apartment market has moved from bottom to boom in two years, with citywide rents rising 15 percent and institutional buyers now dominating a sector that mom-and-pop owners controlled as recently as 2024. San Francisco’s multifamily market has staged a recovery emphatic enough that its lead broker…

The San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. has recruited longtime Enterprise Community Partners director Geeta Rao as its first vice president of real estate, signaling a decisive shift from filling empty offices to converting them into housing. The post San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. Taps…

A podcast episode reviewing commercial real estate transaction trends and market signals, including AI-driven office demand dynamics and creative financing strategies.

A development project at the Marina Safeway site in San Francisco has modified its unit count and building height as part of project refinement.

GID completed an acquisition of an apartment property in San Diego for $148.5 million.
San Francisco is pursuing policy measures to increase residential apartment development in response to rental rates exceeding those in New York City.
A newly constructed San Francisco office building has lost its sole occupant tenant, reflecting ongoing challenges in the city's office market.
The RealReal reopened its San Francisco flagship at 253 Post Street, an 8,100 sq ft two-story store in Union Square.

The 143-key Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill reopened after a full restoration led by designer Ken Fulk, operated by Flynn Properties and Highgate.
Shorenstein has purchased 550 Allerton, a six-story Class A office building anchored by law firm Gunderson Dettmer, betting on one of the Peninsula’s tightest and best-performing office submarkets as Bay Area demand rebounds on the back of an artificial intelligence surge. Shorenstein Investment Advisers has…
Brookfield Properties is asking San Francisco to let it pack roughly 600 additional homes and two extra stories onto its 28-acre Pier 70 waterfront development in Dogpatch, a density play the developer says is the difference between breaking ground and continued paralysis. The post Brookfield Moves to Add 600 Homes…

Four months after paying nearly $692 million for San Francisco's most recognizable tower, Cyprus-based Yoda PLC has signed more than 113,000 square feet of new office leasing at the Transamerica Pyramid Center and is preparing a wave of spec-suite and amenity investments across the three-building complex. The post…

The new owner of one of San Francisco’s most iconic high-rise office towers announced seven new leases totaling 113K SF, including five deals inked since Yoda PLC of Cyprus acquired the Transamerica Pyramid in March. The leases are the first announced...

A wave of upzoning across the San Francisco Peninsula is cracking open some of the region’s most supply‑starved housing markets, prompting multifamily developers to target obsolete office sites in Sunnyvale, San Mateo and Menlo Park for hundreds of...

Air taxi developer Archer Aviation leased a 501K SF technology campus in Morgan Hill, California, south of San Jose. Santa Clara-based Archer Aviation leased the newly built five-building Cochrane Technology Center at 18105-18265 De Paul Drive, The Mercury...
AI server maker’s bet on Prologis-built space highlights how power capacity, not just square footage, is now driving Silicon Valley’s manufacturing real estate boom Quanta Computer Inc. is locking down more ground in the city that has become Silicon Valley’s factory floor for the AI boom, agreeing to lease a nearly…

Health system’s cash purchase closes a decade-long land fight and adds another parcel to its expanding Tri-Valley footprint Sutter Health has picked up a 27-acre parcel at the interchange of Interstate 580 and Hacienda Road in Dublin that spent more than a decade tied up in a failed bid to bring an Ikea superstore…

A drone-boat startup plans to use the Port of Brownsville as its base for a $3.2 billion military contract. Saronic Technologies Inc. was selected over a competitor in the Bay Area of California. The company bills it as a next-generation shipyard for building advanced autonomous vessels. Saronic plans to break…
Pasadena REIT’s exit from aging Greater Stanford campus underscores the depth of the Bay Area’s office repricing An affiliate of San Francisco-based Harvest Properties has closed on two aging office and research buildings in Palo Alto’s Greater Stanford submarket for a price that lays bare how far Bay Area office…

An entity tied to Group i President and Chief Executive Officer Joy Ou has hired Newmark to sell 1301 Folsom Street, a three-story South of Market R&D building leased in its entirety to AI robotics company Medra, testing whether a single credit-thin but capital-rich tenant and unusually heavy electrical…

A sweeping code-cleanup ordinance now before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would delete ten sections of the Planning Code outright, repeal the Housing Balance monitoring regime and eliminate the periodic review that asks whether the city’s Proposition M office cap should survive at all, consolidating…

San Francisco office leasing has surged to all-time highs in the first half of 2026, and a Newmark building-by-building analysis argues the market’s real vacancy is closer to 15 percent than the high-20s figure that has defined its post-pandemic reputation. San Francisco’s office market has produced what may be the…
Ensemble Real Estate Investments’ second residential community in Santa Clara’s Clara District has broken into construction, one of the first Bay Area multifamily projects to reach that stage since interest rates spiked between 2023 and 2025, as the developer bets a second time on the neighborhood it is building…

The Bay Area’s technology corridor has emerged as the strongest single-family rental market in the country during the first half of 2026, with San Francisco, San Jose and a string of Peninsula cities posting mid-single-digit rent growth even as nearly half of the 1,099 U.S. markets tracked by Rentometer recorded…
One of Uptown Oakland’s most symbolically important apartment buildings is headed to the auction block, even as the city’s broader rental market shows its first real signs of stabilizing after a brutal, oversupply-driven downturn. Lenders have scheduled a July 28 foreclosure auction for Mason at Hive, a 105-unit…

The Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley has changed hands for the first time in more than a decade, giving a Dallas-based hotel REIT working through its own mounting debt problems a fresh infusion of cash and handing a new owner one of the East Bay’s largest full-service hotels just as the city touts its rise as […]…

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 and to exempt developments of fewer than 24 units entirely, delivering the market-rate half of a bargain that also sent a $125 million-a-year affordable housing fund to the…
After a decade with almost nothing to show, San Francisco is set to receive applications for three office-to-residential conversions totaling more than 300 units this month, even as a resurgent tech market drives up building prices and threatens to shrink the supply of properties cheap enough to convert. San…

Upside Foods, the cultivated meat company that raised more than $600 million at a billion-dollar valuation and then cut staff three times in 13 months, has leased 18,505 square feet at 6101 Christie Avenue in Emeryville, a lease that appeared on the Bay Area’s life sciences roster in the same quarter that a nearby…

The space-based solar power startup founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt leased 14,825 square feet at 1710 Industrial Road in San Carlos, then renamed itself Cowboy Space Corporation and raised $275 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation, a sequence that placed a satellite company on the San Francisco Bay…
NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based Airbnb has purchased 281 Park Avenue South, an office building in Midtown Manhattan, for $81.5 million, according to reports from multiple news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Post. The landmarked, six-story building is known locally as Church…

ISLAND PARK, N.Y. — San Francisco-based intermediary Gantry has arranged an $11.5 million loan for the refinancing of a 740-unit self-storage facility located in the Long Island township of Island Park. Public Storage operates the three-story, climate-controlled facility. Robert Slatt and Alex Poulos of Gantry…

OCEANSIDE, CALIF. — CBRE has brokered the $77.5 million sale of Sunterra, a multifamily community located just north of Carlsbad in Southern California. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset from 29th Street Capital. Rachel Parsons, Derrek Ostrzyzek, Mike Murphy and Kenji Thomas of CBRE represented the seller,…

A Reichmann family scion just placed one of his biggest bets yet on Union Square’s recovery, closing on a Bulgari-anchored building days after the deal seen as the strongest proof of downtown San Francisco’s retail comeback collapsed. Silver Gate Property II LLC, a Delaware entity affiliated with investor Ian…

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing the agency’s 7.5-mile waterfront real estate portfolio to a three-decade government and development veteran at the moment tourism spending is set to break the city’s…

CBRE facilitated the $77.5-million sale of Sunterra, a 240-unit multifamily community located at 3851 Sherbourne Dr. in Oceanside. The firm’s Rachel Parsons, Derrek Ostrzyzek, Mike Murphy and Kenji Thomas advised the seller, 29th Street Capital. Debt and Structured Finance support was provided by James Flinn and…

Oakland has rewritten the terms of its landmark Coliseum sale to let the buyer break off the Arena and flip it to a third party, a restructuring that speeds the city’s payout and pushes Irving Azoff’s Oak View Group to the front of the race for the venue where the Warriors once played. The Oakland […] The post…
A citizen-led rent-control initiative backed by Faith in Action Bay Area has qualified for Redwood City’s November ballot, setting up a costly showdown over a 46-page ordinance whose eviction, relocation and fee provisions reach far beyond its headline 5 percent rent cap. Redwood City voters will decide in November…

San Francisco’s planning commission has certified the environmental review required to pursue a public takeover of PG&E’s local electric grid, advancing a $3.4 billion bid that the utility insists it will not entertain. San Francisco moved a step closer to seizing control of its own power lines on Thursday, July…

AppZen, the artificial intelligence company that automates corporate expense auditing, has leased 24,485 square feet at 4655 Great America Parkway in Santa Clara, the region’s second-largest life sciences lease of the quarter despite AppZen having nothing to do with life sciences, in a deal that says something…

The Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer clubs will leave the Oakland Coliseum after the 2026 season, redirecting their search toward a club-controlled stadium at the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal or the Coliseum site itself, both of which sit inside a tangle of competing ownership plays. The Oakland Roots…
A California company incorporated only four months ago is courting at least eight Bay Area fairgrounds with a plan to build small data centers, parking garages and helicopter pads on public event land, even as public records show no disclosed funding, no registered subsidiaries and no permits behind its…
San Jose planners are advancing a once-in-four-years rewrite of the city’s growth blueprint that would open single-family neighborhoods to small apartment buildings and rezone a slice of Winchester Boulevard for eight-story towers, setting up an Aug. 18 City Council showdown between housing advocates who say it…

Natera, the multibillion-dollar genetic testing company that moved its headquarters to Austin but kept its scientific core on the Peninsula, has leased 19,652 square feet at 2 Tower Place in South San Francisco, a Ventas-owned tower where the commitment lands as the company’s existing South San Francisco lease…
Rubicon Point Partners (RPP) has acquired Wolfe Square, a Class A, 117,795-square-foot multi-tenant office and medical campus located adjacent to Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino. Although the buyer didn’t disclose the acquisition price, the Silicon Valley Business Journal recently reported it as more than…
Air taxi manufacturer Archer Aviation Inc. has agreed to lease a 501,000-square-foot industrial complex in Morgan Hill ahead of launching its first passenger flights later this year, reported the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The San Jose-based company will lease all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s…

San Francisco home prices surge 22 percent as AI wealth drives bidding wars, with 44 homes selling $1 million over asking in June alone. The post AI Wealth Fuels Bidding Wars and Million-Dollar Premiums in San Francisco Housing appeared first on Propmodo .

San Francisco’s planning chief has moved to reclaim dormant office development rights from developers sitting on long-stalled downtown projects, threatening to strip their Proposition M allocations as City Hall races to refill a depleted pool amid a competitive scramble for the Financial District’s first…
The Presidio Trust has landed Fieldwork Brewing Company for the entire restaurant building at 563 Ruger Street, filling a historic barracks that sat dark for two years after Presidio Social Club closed and giving the 1,500-acre national park site its first taproom. The lease, announced July 7, covers approximately…

Pickleball Kingdom, the largest indoor pickleball operator in the world, will take over a vacant Joann fabric store in Livermore’s Arroyo Seco Shopping Center and rebuild it as an eight-court club, the latest example of a sports operator absorbing big-box space that traditional retailers no longer want. The…

Air taxi maker Archer Aviation has committed to all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s 30-acre Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill, a full-campus deal that hands the fast-growing eVTOL manufacturer more than a half-million square feet as it pivots from testing to commercial production. Archer Aviation…

Clinical-stage breast cancer company Olema Oncology has committed to 38,176 square feet at Kilroy Realty’s 365 Oyster Point Boulevard under a seven-year lease, relocating its headquarters out of San Francisco and pushing the building to roughly 60 percent leased months before the pivotal readout that will determine…

After ten consecutive quarters of shrinking occupancy, the North I-680 Corridor office market recorded 196,732 square feet of positive net absorption in the second quarter of 2026, powered by a 46,219-square-foot Travelers Insurance commitment in Concord and a wave of owner-user acquisitions that pushed pricing to…

A locally based developer is moving to convert an aging San Mateo office parcel into 80 apartments, betting on a Peninsula rental market that analysts expect to tighten sharply through the rest of the decade. SM Flores, LLC has filed a formal planning application to demolish an existing office building at 2555…
San José Mineta International Airport lost more than 1.1 million passengers in 2025 as carriers consolidated Bay Area operations at San Francisco International, opening a widening gap between actual demand and the growth curve embedded in the city’s newly amended Airport Master Plan. San José Mineta International…

NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based investment firm Spear Street Capital has purchased 76 Eighth Avenue, a 10-story office and retail building in Lower Manhattan, for $50.5 million. The 35,620-square-foot building was completed in 2022 and was fully leased at the time of sale, with Wells Fargo occupying the retail…

SAN CARLOS, CALIF. — SummerHill Apartment Communities has broken ground on 11 El Camino Real, a 251-unit multifamily community situated on 2.2 acres in San Carlos, located about 23 miles south of San Francisco. Completion is slated for 2028. SummerHill is a subsidiary of Marcus & Millichap and is based in Palo…

SAN CARLOS, CALIF. — SummerHill Apartment Communities, with architect KTGY, has broken ground 11 El Camino Real, situated on 2.2 acres in San Carlos, 23 miles south of San Francisco.… The post SummerHill, KTGY Break Ground on 11 El Camino Real in San Carlos, California appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable…

Harrison Street Asset Management completed a $340 million sale of a medical office building located in San Jose, California.

LIVERMORE, CALIF. — Locally based Virtu Investments has sold Briarwood Apartments in Livermore, 44 miles west of San Francisco. The asset sold for $19.8 million. Marcus & Millichap represented Virtu,… The post Virtu Investments Sells Briarwood Apartments in Livermore, California, for $19.8M appeared first on…