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Life sciences real estate market reaches bottom as capital returns to the sector, with San Diego highlighted as a key market.

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.

Orange County multifamily vacancy remained stable in Q2 2026 despite delivery of more than 3,200 units in the first half of the year.

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

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

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.

Bay Area senior housing development pipeline exhibits a split between market-rate and affordable project activity.
JLL research lead Alexander Quinn says Bay Area office-job demand and San Francisco AI leasing are both climbing sharply, cutting against fears that artificial intelligence is gutting the region's white-collar workforce. The post AI Now Fills 10% of San Francisco Office Supply as Bay Area Job Postings Jump 45%…

Developers are integrating artificial surf parks into mixed-use resort, retail, and residential projects across Southern California.

Los Angeles office market shows divergent recovery patterns across sectors, with creative industries stalling recovery while finance and law sectors drive growth in Westside and Century City submarkets.

Defense and aerospace spending is driving demand in Los Angeles' South Bay industrial market.

The San Francisco Bay Area's beleaguered life science market posted positive net absorption and a rebound in venture funding in the second quarter, according to Newmark, even as record vacancy, falling rents and a frozen construction pipeline showed how far recovery remains. The post Bay Area Life Science Market…

Retail rent and concessions are easing, not disappearing. CompStak lease data from the Bay Area shows free rent as a […] The post Retail Concession Trends: What CompStak Data Shows in the Bay Area appeared first on CompStak .

Voit Real Estate Services examines how rising operational costs and tenant demand for higher-quality spaces are driving speculative office suite development in San Diego.

PORTLAND, ORE. — JLL has arranged a $40.5 million refinancing loan for The Payton, a 162-unit Class A property in Portland’s Lloyd District area. San Diego-based ColRich is the borrower/owner.… The post ColRich Secures $40.5M Refinancing for Luxury Pacific Northwest Property appeared first on Multifamily &…

NAI reports growing retail investment activity in Southern California amid a contracting development pipeline, with details on mixed-use and commercial transactions across the region.

The San Francisco Bay Area was conspicuously missing from a national ranking of the strongest apartment markets for first-half 2026 net absorption, an absence that reflects the region's rock-bottom vacancy and thin construction pipeline rather than any weakness in renter demand. The post Why the San Francisco Bay…
By John Cumbelich Our firm recently completed a Q2 survey of the region’s 25 flagship Power Centers, in which we reported that occupancy levels across the Northern California region reached their highest levels in 4+ years. Across a 13 million square foot cross section of the region’s top retail assets, occupancy…

An analysis of San Diego's housing market dynamics examining policy impacts, demand shifts, and design trends affecting the multifamily and affordable housing sectors.

Market activity and planned speculative industrial development in San Diego responding to strong tenant demand.

Analysis of San Diego's hotel market conditions at the start of 2019, noting strong fundamentals alongside potential overbuilding risks.

Bisnow reports on the drivers sustaining San Diego's retail market, highlighting population growth and mixed-use development activity.
San Francisco's office market logged its fourth straight quarter of positive absorption at midyear 2026, as a revival of large space requirements, an artificial-intelligence hiring wave and fierce competition for view-rich floors pushed demand to a level the city has not matched in six years, according to research…

Sacramento’s office vacancy declined and absorption turned positive in the second quarter, but every one of the market’s five largest leases went to a government or healthcare tenant, leaving the sector’s recovery resting on public-sector demand as private companies continue to sit on the sidelines, according to…

Silicon Valley’s retail landscape has shifted into a landlord’s market, where ethnic grocers, medical users and drive-thru coffee chains are competing over a shrinking supply of well-located, high-infrastructure space even as single-tenant net-lease investment sales slide for a second consecutive year. Silicon…

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…

U.S. office leasing has surpassed pre-pandemic norms, driven by AI demand, premium buildings, tighter supply, and a sharp San Francisco rebound. The post The Office Market Is Finally Posting Numbers That Look Like 2019 appeared first on Propmodo .

As electric vehicle adoption accelerates, developers explore how underused commercial properties can become the next generation of neighborhood infrastructure.

Northern California recorded 68 hotel sales in the first half of 2026, but dollar volume fell 15.7 percent to $641.8 million as steep declines in San Francisco and Alameda counties overwhelmed gains in Sonoma and Sacramento. The post Northern California Hotel Sales Slide 16% to $642MM as San Francisco and Alameda…

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…

Highland Park, IL and Overland Park, KS round out the top three. Demand from highly compensated employees of the San Francisco Bay Area’s AI companies earns Noe Valley the No. 7 spot among Redfin’s hottest luxury neighborhoods this year. Strong demand, despite elevated costs, is outpacing supply in many high-end…

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 found Bay Area office vacancy fell to 20 percent and sublease space hit its lowest level since early 2020, as a surge in AI-driven venture funding — $162.2 billion into San Francisco companies so far this year — pushed leasing volume toward the strongest annual pace of the current cycle.…
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…

It was 50 years ago that the famed blind taste test of Napa and French wines known as the Judgement of Paris crowned the California valley’s vineyards victorious. Overnight, Napa became a global destination synonymous with the world’s best wine. Now, Napa appears poised for another transformative moment. Just an…

Sacramento’s office market posted its strongest quarter in years during the second quarter of 2026, absorbing nearly 200,000 square feet and driving vacancy down toward the 20 percent threshold, though a widening gap between trophy and commodity space left much of the recovery concentrated in a handful of…

Report examining operational and community impacts of data center development in California as artificial intelligence infrastructure demand drives energy consumption concerns.

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…
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…

California’s commercial real estate market is stabilizing as developers adapt to a prolonged higher-rate environment, according to the Summer 2026 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey released Wednesday. Although financing costs, construction expenses and broader economic…
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…

A year after last summer’s immigration crackdowns that emptied parts of Los Angeles’ commercial corridors, damage to business owners and their landlords hasn’t been repaired. Neighborhoods like the Fashion District and Little Tokyo are still coping...
SAN DIEGO, July 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Assets Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AAT) (the “company”) today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2026.

Oakland’s three marquee retail corridors tightened again in the second quarter of 2026, lifting combined occupancy to 92.48 percent even as Montclair Village continued to nurse a trio of empty storefronts, according to a new John Cumbelich & Associates report. Oakland’s premier retail districts extended their run…

Tuolumne County, CA, in the Yosemite foothills, lost more residents than any other fire-prone U.S. county in 2025. It was followed closely by Sutter County, also in rural Northern California. Just one-third of the country’s 308 fire-prone counties lost more residents than they gained, while the other two-thirds…

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…
San Jose says six weeks of World Cup soccer drew one million visitors to its downtown and pushed hotel revenue per available room up 42.3 percent year-over-year, handing the city fresh evidence for its long-running wager on a downtown sports-and-entertainment district. The city measured the payoff Friday, tallying…

Summary and analysis of Oakland’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of Sacramento’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of San Diego’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of Silicon Valley’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of East Bay 680 Corridor’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of North Bay’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of San Diego’s current economic and industrial real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of Inland Empire’s current economic and industrial real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of San Francisco Mid-Peninsula’s current economic and industrial real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of San Francisco Mid-Peninsula’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of Los Angeles’ current economic and industrial real estate market conditions.

Summary and analysis of Silicon Valley’s current economic and industrial real estate market conditions.