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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…
The Minkoff Group has acquired the 15-acre former Oracle campus at 10-12 Twin Dolphin Drive in Redwood Shores from life-science REIT IQHQ, capping the seller’s retreat from a waterfront development it once envisioned as a life-science hub. The Minkoff Group purchased 10-12 Twin Dolphin Drive, a 263,024-square-foot…
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…

The nation's largest public pension fund rode a soaring stock market to its best investment year in more than a decade, but its real estate and infrastructure holdings badly trailed the rally, underscoring the drag that property continues to exert on institutional portfolios. The post CalPERS Notches 14.8% Return…

An out-of-the-spotlight county-seat purchase became the quarter’s clearest signal that price, not prestige, is drawing buyers deeper into the North I-680 Corridor’s office market. Turnbaugh Group has acquired 531-537 Main Street, a 17,600-square-foot office building in downtown Martinez, California, for…
A labor union has purchased its own building in Concord, joining a wave of owner-users reshaping who buys office space in the East Bay. The Public Employees Union has acquired 2520 Stanwell Drive, a 24,602-square-foot office building in Concord, California, in a deal that priced the property at $140 per square…

A single owner-user buyer has claimed the largest office trade of the quarter in Concord, betting on long-term occupancy control in a submarket still wrestling with vacancy above 31 percent. Alejandro Cuadra has acquired the office building at 1849 Willow Pass Rd in Concord, a 28,147-square-foot asset that ranked…

CBRE Facilitates $8.1 Million Sale of Single-Tenant Industrial Asset SACRAMENTO, Calif. – July 15, 2026 – CBRE facilitated the $8.125 million sale of a 36,000-square-foot, single-tenant industrial property at 2510 Evergreen Avenue in Sacramento, California. CBRE’s Matt Post, Anthony DeLorenzo and Sammy Cemo…
A former bank site two blocks from Sunnyvale’s Caltrain station is on track to become one of downtown’s largest affordable housing developments, after nonprofit developer MidPen Housing brought a scaled-back, 110-unit proposal before the city’s Planning Commission this month. The Sunnyvale Planning Commission met…

A two-story office building anchored by Contra Costa County’s government offices has hit the market in Richmond’s Hilltop submarket, offering investors a rare, nearly fully leased public-sector asset just as the surrounding neighborhood prepares for a 143-acre mall-to-housing overhaul. A 45,010-square-foot…

Seven years after Bauen Capital bought a pair of derelict K Street landmarks on the thesis that California state agencies would fill them, the developer is asking Sacramento to let it sell the buildings off one floor at a time — a bet that the downtown office market has more buyers than tenants. An application […]…

Roche is decommissioning the specialized clinical testing laboratory it inherited from its 2015 Ariosa Diagnostics acquisition and moving all 45 employees roughly nine miles north to a purpose-built 11,300-square-foot lab on its Santa Clara campus, a consolidation triggered by a lease expiration and executed…

A restoration franchise operator has paid the highest price per square foot recorded among the quarter’s significant industrial sales to secure a small Concord building for its own use. Servpro, the restoration and cleaning franchise operator, has acquired 2500 Annalisa Dr in Concord, California, a…

A single-asset buyer has taken ownership of a multi-address industrial building in Concord, adding to a run of owner-user deals that continues to prop up sales volume across the North I-680 corridor. 1857 Arnold LLC has acquired the 22,000-square-foot industrial building at 1857-1861 Arnold Industrial Way in…

The seven-member panel that governs Northern California’s third-busiest container gateway, a 20-mile stretch of Oakland waterfront and a rebounding regional airport has installed a fundraising executive and Oakland resident of two decades at its head, reshuffling its leadership bench as the Port works to reverse a…

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…

Self-storage operator StoragePro has purchased a 32,010-square-foot industrial building in Concord, adding to a wave of owner-user acquisitions reshaping the North I-680 corridor. StoragePro has acquired the industrial property at 1970 Olivera Rd in Concord, California, a 32,010-square-foot building that traded at…
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…
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…

Panattoni Development Company has finished construction on Amazon’s newest last-mile delivery station in Redding, California, delivering a 95,000-square-foot facility that caps nearly two decades of the city’s effort to turn a shovel-ready industrial park into a magnet for major employers. The facility, at 5855…

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…

Blue Owl Capital has placed the five-building Milpitas R&D campus it bought from Western Digital in a 2023 sale-leaseback back on the market, offering investors a 12.5-year triple-net lease to SanDisk, 13 megawatts of power and more than $375 million of tenant capital sunk into flash memory laboratories now feeding…
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…
A freestanding, three-story Class A office building in Pleasanton’s Bernal Corporate Park has hit the market as a rare owner-user opportunity, fully occupied by Rimini Street under a lease that runs into January 2027 in a submarket where roughly two of every five Class A square feet sit empty. The…
Mountain View is preparing to sell off an entire public street to clear the way for a seven-story, 216-condominium tower from DeNardi Wang Homes, doubling the size of a project the city first approved half a decade ago and marking the second time this year the city has agreed to relinquish a road for housing. […]…

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…

The residents of Salinas’ 82-space Alisal Country Estates Mobile Home Park have collectively purchased the property for $12 million, converting a rented-land community into one of the region’s first resident-owned parks and shielding dozens of farmworker and fixed-income households from the rent hikes reshaping the…

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…

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…

Caltrans is closing out its $511.1 million Fix 50 corridor overhaul in Sacramento this month, capping a multiyear rebuild that added carpool lanes and resurfaced aging pavement but landed roughly $100 million over budget and about a year behind its original schedule. The California Department of Transportation this…

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…

Stockton has consolidated its municipal operations into the rehabilitated Waterfront Towers office complex on the city’s deep-water channel, capping an 8½-year conversion project whose public price tag has swelled from an early estimate of roughly $25 million to a figure now approaching $100 million. Stockton cut…

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…

California's Nov. 3 ballot carries 14 measures on housing bonds, a billionaire tax, CEQA reform and property taxes reshaping real estate. The post California’s 14 November Ballot Measures Put $11.25B Housing Bond, CEQA Reform and Billionaire Tax Before Voters appeared first on The Registry Northern California Real…
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…

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…

California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national export trade to 8 percent and raising fresh questions about demand for the warehouse and port infrastructure built to serve it. The Golden State’s exporters posted a…

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…