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Market activity and planned speculative industrial development in San Diego responding to strong tenant demand.
Cresleigh Homes is planning a 37-story residential tower development in downtown San Diego.
A retail property in Encinitas, California sold for $43 million.
Quick-service restaurant chain Qdoba is relocating its headquarters to a historic office building in San Diego.
A commercial real estate brokerage completed the sale of an industrial property in the Otay Mesa submarket of San Diego, California.
Amazon renews its 300K SF lease at 525 Market St. and plans additional growth in San Francisco office and robotics spaces.
Amazon has agreed to a multi-year extension of its roughly 300,000-square-foot lease at 525 Market St., adding about 30,000 square feet even as the company shutters its downtown artificial general intelligence lab and pares back its office footprint elsewhere in San Francisco. The post Amazon Renews 300,000 SQFT…
Oura Health converted the full-building lease it signed in January into an outright purchase of 500 Pine Street, paying $41.5 million for the boutique North Financial District property and designating San Francisco its official global headquarters. The post Oura Acquires Its 56,000 SQFT San Francisco HQ at 500 Pine…
The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Chinatown Community Development Center have opened 730 Stanyan, a 160-unit, entirely affordable apartment complex built on the Haight-Ashbury lot San Francisco bought and cleared after a shuttered McDonald's became one of the neighborhood's most persistent…
FedEx buys its longtime 211,000 SQFT South San Francisco warehouse for $94 million as Peninsula industrial vacancy tightens. The post FedEx Buys 211,000 SQFT South San Francisco Warehouse for $94MM appeared first on The Registry Northern California Real Estate .
The bank's second infusion into the 29-acre Dogpatch megaproject pairs a construction loan for a 342-unit building with equity in an untested fund, putting institutional capital behind the proposition that housing for households earning too much for subsidy and too little to absorb market rents can pencil as an…
Hudson Pacific Properties anchored the busiest leasing quarter in its history with a 24-year commitment from the City and County of San Francisco at its 1455 Market tower, even as the real estate investment trust accelerated a Northern California disposition program that has already cleared buildings in North San…
Beacon Capital Partners has enlisted JLL to sell 655 Montgomery Street, an 87 percent-leased Class A tower facing the Transamerica Pyramid, betting that a strengthening San Francisco office recovery will reward the stabilized, view-rich asset it acquired with CalSTRS for $191.5 million in 2019. The post Beacon…
Beacon Capital Partners has enlisted JLL to sell 655 Montgomery Street, an 87 percent-leased Class A tower facing the Transamerica Pyramid, betting that a strengthening San Francisco office recovery will reward the stabilized, view-rich asset it acquired with CalSTRS for $191.5 million in 2019. The post Beacon…
An office property in San Francisco’s South Financial District that’s home to software firm Docusign Inc. is hitting the market with one of the highest asking prices seen locally since the pandemic, the San Francisco Business Times reported. The 383,000-square-foot 221 Main St., owned by Pimco Prime Real Estate and…
Pimco Prime Real Estate is seeking roughly $653 a square foot for the Docusign-anchored tower, a price that would rank among San Francisco’s highest post-pandemic office trades as citywide vacancy hits its lowest point since 2023 and leasing volume approaches a three-decade high. A nearly fully leased San Francisco…
Alexandria Real Estate Equities captured twice its market share of San Francisco Bay Area leasing in the second quarter, its strongest regional showing, as advanced technology users supplied nearly 30 percent of companywide volume and the REIT closed a $163 million Palo Alto sale to a residential developer. The…
Cryptocurrency payments firm Ripple has renewed its lease on the entire 600 Battery Street building in San Francisco’s Jackson Square, keeping one of the city’s highest-profile technology tenants in place and signaling continued confidence in the downtown office recovery. A 123,547-square-foot renewal was among the…
An Alaska-based investor has landed a trophy corner at the seam of Union Square and the North Financial District, paying roughly $281 per square foot for a building that a blue-chip tenant walked away from a year ago. The post Fountainhead Buys 44,000 SQFT Union Square Office and Retail Building at 100 Post for…
JPMorganChase is following up its recent financing of the 105-unit Sophie Maxwell Building in the Power Station redevelopment within San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood by providing nearly $200 million in financing for a new 342-unit residential building at Power Station. The financial services giant announced…
Prologis, the world’s largest industrial landlord, is about to get even bigger. The San Francisco-based real estate investment trust (REIT) has succeeded in its fourth offer to acquire rival Segro, the United Kingdom’s largest REIT, in a deal valuing Segro’s equity at roughly $18.8 billion. Prologis announced…
Prologis, Inc.’s pursuit of UK-based industrial landlord Segro plc has paid off with the Segro aboard agreeing Tuesday to terms of an acquisition. The all-stock deal values Segro at approximately US$18.8 billion. For San Francisco-based Prologis, which had sought a takeover since at least early 2024, the…
The real estate investment trust said active tenant demand in San Francisco has topped 10 million square feet for the first time since 2019, with the recovery broadening from the city's core into SoMa, the Peninsula and its South San Francisco life science campus. The post Kilroy Says San Francisco Demand Tops 10MM…
One of downtown San Francisco’s largest and most troubled assets is back on the block, this time with a longer ground lease, lower carrying costs and a hard September deadline for bidders willing to take on a 5.9-acre redevelopment play at the city’s busiest corner. The San Francisco Centre & Emporium, a 1.2…
Savills completes its $1.11 billion buy of Eastdil Secured, now Eastdil Secured Savills, deepening its San Francisco capital markets bench. The post Savills Closes $1.11B Eastdil Secured Acquisition, Deepening San Francisco Capital Markets Reach appeared first on The Registry Northern California Real Estate .
San Francisco's first new office tower in a decade at First and Mission streets is to be spearheaded by BXP.
Kilroy Realty told analysts on its second-quarter earnings call that continued ownership of all or part of its long-stalled Flower Mart megaproject in Central SoMa is now an open question, even as the San Francisco market recovers around it. The post Kilroy Weighs Sale or Joint Venture of 7-Acre San Francisco…
Developer Fifth Space secured a San Francisco Planning Commission recommendation to loosen commercial-use rules, raise building heights and defer certain housing fees across its 29-acre Central Waterfront neighborhood, while pledging to preserve the project's promise to make nearly a third of its homes affordable.…
Blackstone Mortgage Trust launches sale of San Francisco's 686-key Hyatt Regency SoMa as part of a broader portfolio overhaul. The post Blackstone Mortgage Trust Lists 686-Key Hyatt Regency SoMa in San Francisco as Part of Portfolio Overhaul appeared first on The Registry Northern California Real Estate .
BELMONT, CALIF. — Voya Financial has provided a $22 million permanent loan for an undisclosed multifamily community in the Bay Area city of Belmont. Keystone arranged the financing at a fixed interest rate of 5.47 percent. Additional details of the transaction were not released. The post Voya Financial Provides…
Image CEO Angela Kleiman says start-ups in the Bay Area are “translating into a demand catalyst.”
American Healthcare REIT’s $102.75 million purchase of San Jose’s Avella at Almaden marks the REIT’s latest bet on Bay Area senior housing, a sector where occupancy is climbing toward record highs even as new construction grinds to a near halt. An Irvine-based real estate investment trust focused on healthcare…
With the sale of the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza site in Los Angeles recently approved by a bankruptcy court, another project left in limbo by China-based Oceanwide Holdings’ collapse is gaining renewed momentum. The San Francisco Recovery Fund has hired BXP as a development advisor on plans to build a 910-foot…
A Los Angeles ownership group has put its half-empty Novato medical and office building on the block, pitching buyers on a discounted basis and the pull of an adjacent hospital campus in one of the Bay Area’s tightest medical office markets. An entity affiliated with Los Angeles-based Pinnacle Capital Management…
Gantry secured a $9.65-million permanent loan to refinance maturing debt from the acquisition of a two-building, infill light industrial property located at 2290 De La Cruz Blvd in Santa Clara. Principal Tony Kaufmann and associate Jake Davis with Gantry’s San Francisco production office represented the borrower, a…
Palo Alto Networks has locked in its Santa Clara headquarters for another generation, extending leases across its 940,564-square-foot campus through mid-2040 in the single largest office lease recorded anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area during the second quarter of 2026. A cybersecurity giant agreed to a…
A public housing agency has emerged as the buyer of one of the Peninsula’s newest luxury apartment communities, acquiring the 74-unit Azara in San Mateo for $54.75 million as institutional demand for high-quality Bay Area multifamily continues to intensify. The Housing Endowment and Regional Trust of San Mateo…
SAN FRANCISCO — Sares Regis Group of Northern California, along with an institutional equity partner, has sold the 195-unit Celeste Apartments in South San Francisco to Bell Partners on behalf of its Bell Growth & Income Fund investors. The buyer will rename the asset, located at 401 Cypress Ave., to Bell South…
The second phase of Kilroy Realty's sprawling Oyster Point life sciences campus in South San Francisco is climbing uphill in a bid to fill space as the lab leasing market languishes. Although the first phase of the 865K SF campus is 100% leased, the...
Essex Property Trust’s Northern California apartments outperformed every other region in its portfolio during the second quarter of 2026, as tightening Bay Area rents and falling operating costs drove the strongest income growth of the company’s West Coast markets. Same-property revenue across Northern California…
The Swig Company has leased 44,000 square feet at The Mills Building to artificial intelligence platform Clay. The lease was announced two weeks after Swig refinanced the circa-1891 property at 220 Montgomery St. in San Francisco’s Financial District. “The Mills Building continues to attract companies seeking a…
AI-powered go-to-market platform Clay has committed to 44,000 square feet at The Swig Company’s historic Mills Building, adding another marquee technology name to a downtown San Francisco office market that artificial intelligence firms have pulled back from the brink. The Swig Company has signed a…
PLANO, TEXAS — San Francisco-based Shorenstein Investment Advisers has acquired The Tennyson, a 273,000-square-foot office property located northeast of Dallas in Plano. The two-building, 12-acre complex, which is located within the city’s Legacy submarket, was originally developed in 2012 as a build-to-suit for…
D.R. Horton’s affordability-first strategy collides with a Northern California market where the typical home costs more than twice the statewide median and far beyond the builder’s average sale price, even as analysts flag the tech-driven Bay Area as a pocket of national strength. The most expensive corner of the…
San Francisco has cleared a key hurdle for a 15-story, 187-unit affordable senior housing tower at 1939 Market Street, handing Mercy Housing California and Openhouse a 75-year ground lease as the roughly $160 million project pivots toward a make-or-break tax-credit decision this summer. The San Francisco Board of…
An 85-foot condominium tower cleared the San Francisco Planning Commission on a low-rise Inner Richmond block, becoming the first project entitled under Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan and an early template for how the city’s new rules will reshape its residential neighborhoods. The San Francisco Planning…
Bell Partners has acquired Celeste Apartments, a 195-unit luxury community adjacent to the South San Francisco Caltrain station, marking the second time in four years that the North Carolina-based investor has purchased a Sares Regis-developed property in the city’s downtown core. Sares Regis Group of Northern…
Sares Regis Group of Northern California and Bell Partners LLC announced the sale of Celeste Apartments, a 195-unit multifamily community in South San Francisco. The LEED Silver certified property, located at 401 Cypress Ave. and adjacent to the Caltrain station, was acquired by Bell Partners on behalf of its Bell…
An affiliate of San Francisco-based Roxborough Group has purchased Main Street Cupertino, the dining and retail hub sitting less than a mile from Apple’s circular headquarters, for $130 million, a price that points to climbing values for commercial property in one of Silicon Valley’s most tightly held tech…
Cannae Partners has purchased EmeryTech, a recently renovated creative office campus in Emeryville, for $55.5 million, a steep discount that lets the San Francisco-based investor step into a partially leased, move-in-ready asset far below what the building’s previous owner had spent to acquire and upgrade it.…
Five Point Holdings is pushing its long-dormant Candlestick redevelopment back toward construction and preparing to hunt for a marquee technology tenant, positioning the bayfront site as San Francisco’s only shot at a large corporate campus just as the city’s office market turns. Five Point Holdings told analysts…
DivcoWest has completed its purchase of a 47.5 percent stake in 101 California Street, finalizing San Francisco’s largest office transaction in more than four years and converting a closely watched listing into a concrete signal that trophy capital has returned to the Financial District. The deal closed last week,…
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Global flexible-workspace operator Mindspace has committed to 54,000 square feet at the Transamerica complex, nearly tripling its San Francisco footprint and betting on a downtown office market that is recovering faster than any other in the nation. Mindspace has signed a 54,000-square-foot lease at Two…
San Francisco’s largest-ever budget quietly wagers its balance on a commercial property recovery that is gathering speed but remains far from complete, tying City Hall’s fiscal fate to deal flow, downtown office demand and a business-tax overhaul now phasing in. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 21…
Developer Mecah Ventures is pushing ahead with Parallel on Claremont, a 38,812-square-foot speculative office project in Downtown San Mateo that accounts for more than half of the entire office construction pipeline on the San Francisco Peninsula. Mecah Ventures is developing Parallel on Claremont, a…
Artificial intelligence coding platform Replit has taken over 52,642 square feet of Exabeam’s Foster City space, adding to a headquarters footprint it expanded just months earlier and delivering the San Francisco Peninsula its single largest office lease of the second quarter. Replit, the AI-powered software…
State housing regulators hauled Half Moon Bay and Turlock into court over years-overdue housing plans, the Northern California front of a five-city enforcement campaign that puts local zoning power and mounting monthly fines at risk. California pushed its housing enforcement campaign into the Bay Area and Central…
A New York distressed-debt specialist has taken control of the buildable heart of San Francisco’s largest apartment complex, using a construction loan it never got repaid to foreclose on land approved for nearly 1,700 new homes. Yellowstone Real Estate Investments has completed a foreclosure takeover of the…
Brex takes all 200,000 SQFT at 270 Brannan St in a nearly 10-year San Francisco lease, reversing its earlier remote-first retreat. The post Brex Leases Entire 200,000 SQFT Building at 270 Brannan St in San Francisco appeared first on The Registry Northern California Real Estate .