What happened, and who moved.

The Redstone Building, a century-old San Francisco landmark and longtime home to the city’s arts and labor organizations, has traded for $7.15 million, marking another chapter for one of the Mission District’s most storied properties. Greymark Capital acquired the Redstone Building, a 55,560-square-foot asset at…

As San Jose hammers out local review standards for data center projects, some residents are calling for the city to follow the lead of other jurisdictions and enact an immediate moratorium on new developments. The proposed standards are expected to address widespread concerns that a glut of new projects working…
A single-story flex and office building in the heart of Emeryville has changed hands for $7.2 million, a transaction that highlights continued investor interest in East Bay value-add real estate even as the submarket’s office fundamentals lag the broader Bay Area recovery. GC Emeryville LLC acquired the…

Marcus & Millichap Brokers $5M Sale of Single-tenant Net-Leased Peet’s Coffee & Tea property in Alameda, California ALAMEDA, Calif., August 10, 2026 – Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI), a leading commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research and advisory services,…
Hines sold a San Diego-area industrial property for $73 million.

Tempo signed a headquarters lease in San Diego to support industrial electrification operations.

Brixton Capital sold a grocery-anchored retail plaza in San Diego.

Tishman Speyer and Bellco Capital secured a $465M CMBS loan for a life sciences campus in San Diego.

Eagle Partners acquired two senior housing complexes near San Diego for $163 million.

Affinius Capital provided a $120 million refinancing for a luxury multifamily complex in San Diego.
Irvine Company sold its final San Diego office tower at a 60% discount.
Genesis Capital provided a $66 million loan for an affordable housing development in San Diego, California.

Hines secured $380M in financing for the first phase of the Riverwalk San Diego mixed-use megaproject.

A 76-unit affordable multifamily project is planned to replace four single-family homes in East Hollywood, part of a broader trend of ED1-backed developments gaining streamlined approvals.

Wearable technology company Oura purchased its San Francisco headquarters at 100 Stockton in Union Square months after relocating there, joining other tech firms acquiring their own office space in the post-pandemic market.

Johnny Buss purchased a 15,000 sf Pacific Palisades development site for $7 million; the lot previously hosted an office and retail building destroyed in January 2025 fires.

Boston-based Beacon has listed a San Francisco office tower near Transamerica on the market, likely facing a loss on its $192M pre-pandemic acquisition as the firm tests the SF office rebound.

Held Properties filed a lawsuit against a tenant seeking more than $1M in damages for unpaid rent at a Century City property.

Accessory dwelling unit (ADU) construction in Los Angeles County reached a record high, representing 38% of new housing starts last year, according to USC data cited in reporting on regional housing supply trends.

Tesla signed a lease for manufacturing space in Oakland as East Bay cities experience increased industrial demand from tech and AI companies.

Urban Catalyst is reducing office development and expanding residential housing plans in downtown San Jose as multifamily vacancies decline and rents rise.

Hong Kong developer Rykadan received city council approval in Monterey Park to increase apartment units in a residential development project.

SRS arranged the $41M sale of the 90% leased, 179K SF park in the San Gabriel Valley.

Jamestown sold the historic Ghirardelli Square shopping center in San Francisco.

A new East San Jose housing development is providing homeownership pathways for working families. For a place with a reputation as the least affordable city in the world to buy a home, AlphaX RE Capital is making housing affordable by providing below-market-rate townhomes for income-qualified households. The Kirk,…

Sack Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based real estate investment and management firm, and Align Finance Partners have closed structured financing for Step Up Housing’s acquisition of two California multifamily communities: Copper Creek, a 268-unit community in Sacramento; and Terramonte at Foothill, a 138-unit…

CBRE announced it arranged $67.4 million in financing for Forge North First, a mixed-phase industrial/R&D campus and advanced manufacturing development in San Jose’s Golden Triangle submarket. Mike Walker, Brad Zampa, and Andy Gross of CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance team in San Francisco arranged the five-year…

Beam Reach is proposing a multifamily development converting a former Google building in Sunnyvale into 265 residential units.

Blackstone agreed to acquire the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco for $279 million.

San Francisco's new family zoning plan has enabled initial housing projects to proceed, though construction cost barriers are constraining pipeline momentum.

Harvest Properties and Lone Star have formed a joint venture to recapitalize a 600,000-square-foot office property in California.

Bay Area life-sciences landlords are converting lab space amid inventory surplus, with conversion costs proving significant.

Archer Aviation leased a 501,000 square-foot tech campus near San Jose.

Ellis Partners and Baupost Group acquired a Santa Clara office complex for $310 million.

San Francisco's AI-driven leasing momentum is prompting Oakland landlords to prepare office space in anticipation of tenant spillover from the Bay Area's tight market.

Affordable housing developers in the San Francisco Bay Area are adopting modular and prefabricated construction methods to control project costs.

Public-private partnerships and early-stage developer collaboration are becoming standard practice among student housing developers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Flow purchased a troubled multifamily high-rise in San Jose for $175 million, marking the company's entry into the West Coast market.

Fortinet acquired approximately 26,000 square feet of space in Sunnyvale to expand its operational footprint.

Bay Area senior housing development pipeline exhibits a split between market-rate and affordable project activity.

Ballast completed a $35M acquisition of a multifamily building in San Francisco.

Prime Residential acquired multifamily assets in San Francisco's Castro District.

Cybersecurity company Illumio signed a 120,000 square foot office lease in Santa Clara and relocated its headquarters from San Francisco.

Prado Group and Presidio Bay completed an exit deal involving San Francisco Centre Mall.

Strada completed the acquisition of Samsara's headquarters building at Showplace Square in San Francisco.

CEDARst Companies has closed on construction financing and launched construction on a 197-unit multifamily development, The Samuel, located at the corner of Adams Avenue and Idaho Street in San Diego’s North Park neighborhood. CrossHarbor Capital Partners provided an $80,000,000 construction loan for the project.…

Santa Clara County’s affordable housing projects funded by local dollars are stuck in a “logjam” struggling to secure other money needed to start construction. While the county has built more than 3,000 affordable homes over the past decade with Measure A, a $950 million bond approved by voters in 2016, 600…

ALAMEDA, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $5 million sale of a single-tenant retail property located in the Bay Area city of Alameda. Peet’s Coffee & Tea occupies the 3,000-square-foot building on a 10-year lease with annual rent increases. Mark Mason of Marcus & Millichap procured the buyer, a…

LOS ANGELES — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $33.2 million agency-backed loan for the acquisition of Palm Court Apartments in Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile neighborhood. Bryan Frazier, Blake Hockenbury, Steven Paskover, Sheri Blackburn and Dillon Hoffman of Walker & Dunlop Capital Markets Real Estate Financing secured…

ALAMEDA, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $5 million sale of a single-tenant retail property located in the Bay Area city of Alameda. Peet’s Coffee & Tea occupies the 3,000-square-foot building on a 10-year lease with annual rent increases. Mark Mason of Marcus & Millichap procured the buyer, a…

An entity tied to Fortress Investment Group has sold the 91-unit apartment building at 520 Geary Street near San Francisco's Union Square to a Burlingame investor for $18.475 million, marking a roughly 50 percent markdown from what the property fetched at the market's 2018 peak. The post Fortress-Tied Owner Sells…
San Jose has launched a formal process to write uniform development standards for data centers and other large energy-use projects, an emerging asset class that already has nine applications pending before the city and could generate as much as $7 million a year per facility in local revenue. The post San Jose…

Milhaus and SRG Residential completed a merger and announced plans to acquire Broadshore Capital Partners.

Rexford Industrial announced plans to divest up to $2 billion in assets this year following a $500 million loss.

Palisades Village retail center is reopening following a $100M rebuilding and recovery effort after a fire.

Los Angeles City Council voted down a proposed ballot measure that would have exempted new housing construction from the city's Uplift LA (ULA) tax.

Kennedy Wilson and Jamison are converting the LA World Trade Center into approximately 4,000 affordable housing units.

Anduril, a defense technology company, has placed its 634,000 sq ft headquarters in Costa Mesa on the market.

Kilroy Realty's Oyster Point development in Southern California has achieved 50% lease occupancy in its second phase amid softer demand for life sciences space.

Lineage was fined for rotting food discovered at a burned cold storage warehouse in Los Angeles and has announced plans to rebuild the facility.