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A resurgent apartment market across Silicon Valley’s core submarkets is delivering the strongest rent growth in years, reviving transaction velocity and drawing institutional buyers back off the sidelines even as owners contend with higher interest rates, soaring insurance and the looming threat of new rent-control…
Silicon Valley’s industrial market has split into two economies — one defined by artificial intelligence, data centers and an insatiable appetite for power, the other by older, irreplaceable Class B and C buildings that are steadily vanishing — leaving the region tight, low on vacancy and firmly in landlords’…
Silicon Valley’s industrial and research-and-development markets both firmed in the second quarter of 2026 as artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing tenants absorbed large blocks, pushed vacancy lower and pulled the region’s commercial real estate fundamentals back toward pre-downturn norms. The…
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 uncertainty is keeping shovels in the ground everywhere except multifamily and retail. San Francisco and Silicon Valley have…
Colliers’ Q2 2026 report shows the Bay Area’s office construction pipeline has shrunk to just 636,000 square feet, with 89 percent of it concentrated in two build-to-suit Santa Clara campuses fully leased to Nvidia and Arista Networks — a sign that developers are refusing to break ground without a committed AI-era…
Solid Gains In Silicon Valley San Jose multifamily regained its strength during the spring leasing season, with most fundamentals on track to outperform last year. Average advertised asking rents were up 0.8%, on a trailing three-month basis through May, to $3,414. That was 50 basis points ahead of the U.S.…
More than half of homes are selling above asking price in Newark, San Francisco, San Jose and Nassau County, making them the most competitive markets in the nation. The AI boom is leading to bidding wars in the Bay Area, and in the Northeast, many metros are seller’s markets. The least competitive markets are in…
This is a quarterly market report published by Colliers in March 2026 covering the industrial sector in the San Jose-Silicon Valley region of California.
Kidder Mathews' Q1 2026 Silicon Valley office market report shows leasing volume of 2.1 million square feet (down 48.2% year-over-year), a vacancy rate holding at 16.5%, and asking rents averaging $4.16 per square foot, with activity concentrated among large strategic tenants rather than broad-based recovery. The market saw office investment sales of 615,000 square feet across 11 transactions at $546.1 million total dollar volume, while availability tightened to 16.6%, and Santa Clara County's unemployment rate was 4.0% in December 2025.
This is a data report published by CBRE on March 31, 2026 presenting Q1 2026 research and development figures for Silicon Valley, covering the office and life-sciences sectors across San Jose, San Francisco, California, and national markets.
This is a market report published by JLL in March 2026 covering office sector dynamics in Silicon Valley during the first quarter of 2026. The report covers geographic areas including San Jose, San Francisco, California, and national markets.
This document is a landing page for Cushman & Wakefield's Silicon Valley MarketBeat reports covering Q1 2026 across office, industrial, retail, and R&D property sectors. The page presents first-quarter 2026 vacancy rates: office at 18.8%, industrial at 6.4%, retail at 4.9%, and R&D at 13.0%, along with links to detailed reports on each sector and related Bay Area life sciences and investment market data.
Silicon Valley's industrial market in first quarter 2026 experienced total leasing activity of 2.0 million square feet, down 7.6% quarter-over-quarter and 9.9% year-over-year but remaining 12.1% above its five-year average, with industrial vacancy rising to 7.4% due to new deliveries including 174.7K SF in Sunnyvale and negative net absorption of 524.2K SF. The region's economy outperformed national trends, with the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara MSA unemployment rate falling to 4.0% in January 2026 and nonfarm payroll employment growing 0.7% year-over-year, while industrial-using sectors led growth with Mining and Construction expanding 6.0% and warehouse leasing accounting for 57.2% of total activity anchored by a 267.1K SF Tesla Motors lease in Fremont.
Silicon Valley's industrial market in first quarter 2026 shows divergent trends between industrial and warehouse segments, with industrial direct vacancy falling 60 basis points to 4.3% while warehouse vacancy rose 60 basis points to 5.6%, the highest in over three years. Asking lease rates for industrial properties declined 5.8% year-over-year to $1.80 per square foot, while warehouse rates rose 0.6% to $1.57, with both remaining above five-year averages; industrial leasing activity increased 4.3% year-to-date, but warehouse leasing declined 57.0%, reflecting uneven recovery concentrated in advanced manufacturing and technology-adjacent users rather than broad-based demand.
This is a data report published by CBRE on March 31, 2026 presenting industrial sector figures for the first quarter of 2026 covering Silicon Valley and related geographic areas including San Jose, San Francisco, California, and national markets.
This is a data report published by CBRE on March 31, 2026 presenting office market figures for the first quarter of 2026, covering Silicon Valley and related geographies including San Jose, San Francisco, California, and national markets.
This is a market research report published by Colliers in Q4 2025 covering the research and development real estate sector in the San Jose-Silicon Valley area. The report addresses office and life-sciences sectors and includes geographic coverage of San Jose, California, the broader San Francisco region, and national context.
This is a market research report published by Colliers on December 31, 2025, covering the office sector in the San Jose-Silicon Valley area. The report addresses Q4 2025 data and includes geographic scope covering San Jose, California, and broader national markets.
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Silicon Valley's office market recorded 1.5 million square feet of leasing activity in Q4 2025, declining from 2.3 million square feet in Q3 2025 due to a concentration of major tech deals in the prior quarter, though full-year 2025 leasing volume reached 7.0 million square feet, the highest post-pandemic level and a 26 percent increase from 2024. Future leasing momentum is expected to improve based on expansion plans from AI and tech tenants, including OpenAI's reported search for approximately 500,000 square feet in Mountain View.
This is a quarterly market report on the industrial real estate sector in the San Jose-Silicon Valley area, published by Colliers at the end of 2025. The report covers industrial market conditions and conditions in the San Jose, California region as of the fourth quarter of 2025.
Silicon Valley's office market recorded more than 481,000 square feet of positive net absorption in the third quarter of 2025, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of growth, while overall vacancy fell 170 basis points to 16.8%. Major transactions from Netflix and Databricks anchored leasing activity despite office-using employment continuing to decline due to ongoing cost optimization in the tech sector.