Longer-form thinking on where the market goes.
25 white papers

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

Explores the tension between data center development demands and community/environmental protection concerns.

Analysis of Southern California's medical office market evolution and its emergence as a primary investment category for real estate investors.

West transforms a long-isolated civic area into a residential, office, and retail district designed to restore pedestrian connections and support San Diego’s ongoing evolution at its core.

Image CEO Angela Kleiman says start-ups in the Bay Area are “translating into a demand catalyst.”

San Francisco law requires landlords to negotiate The post Union-at-Home Ordinances Could Change How Landlords Handle Tenant Disputes appeared first on Propmodo .
For Dedeaux Properties, California’s infamously arduous development environment can be both a hurdle and a competitive advantage. CEO Brett Dedeaux spoke with Commercial Observer about why the firm sees Tejon Ranch as such a compelling alternative to Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire, as well as how the…

Opinion piece argues that Los Angeles' Measure ULA transfer tax is suppressing multifamily housing production and causing significant economic harm, citing a RAND report showing 30% decline in apartment building starts and 16,650 lost construction jobs since 2023.
Prologis deploys solar energy infrastructure on warehouse rooftops to support community solar programs in California.

Although Florida and Texas are touted as the strongest magnets for in-migration, South Carolina and Delaware actually set the pace last year, Placer.ai says in a new white paper. With the exodus from coastal markets seen during the pandemic having cooled, no state recorded net inflows or outflows exceeding 0.7% of…

Prologis singled out the San Francisco Bay Area as the clearest early sign of a broader shift back toward coastal industrial markets, ranking the region among its strongest performers and committing fresh development capital as demand firms. Prologis, Inc., the world’s largest owner of logistics real estate, told…

The question haunting commercial real estate borrowers two years ago has been answered, and the debt markets that froze after a wave of bank failures have swung back to a posture Newmark’s Ramsey Daya describes as a fist fight for good deals. Speaking at The Registry’s annual San Francisco Mid-Year Broker Forum in…

Not many proptech companies have been able to scale their technology to take advantage of the data center construction boom, but one that has cracked the code in servicing the sector’s gargantuan growth is OpenSpace. The San Francisco-based visual intelligence platform has worked on more than 1,000 data center…
The life science industry has climbed out of one of the most complicated stretches in its history, and while the underlying business is healthier than it has been in years, the region’s glut of high-quality but unbuilt lab space remains stubbornly locked up. The life science sector has weathered “one of its most…

San Diego’s multifamily and affordable housing markets are heading into a “transition” phase, according to Chase Rongé, principal and director at MVE + Partners, a California architecture firm. But what does that look like across the city? Multifamily...

Few names are as engrained in Southern California industrial real estate — or baseball — as Dedeaux. The family business traces its roots to legendary University of Southern California baseball coach Rod Dedeaux, who led the Trojans to 11 national championships and coached U.S. Olympic teams after founding trucking…

By Michael Strong, Vice President-Project Executive, Skanska USA Across the San Francisco Bay Area, adaptive reuse has shifted from a niche idea to a practical construction solution. With high office vacancies, evolving community needs, and increasing pressure to deliver projects faster and more responsibly,…

Back-to-back blazes in Los Angeles and Chicago have highlighted how today’s bigger, more technologically advanced warehouses, especially those outfitted for cold storage, are at greater risk for fire. Developers are racing to build larger, more centralized...

Analysis of how California's SB 79 and recent environmental and land use policy reforms are reshaping development constraints and economics for multifamily housing along transit corridors.

Thought leadership piece examining the Bay Area's role as a hub for artificial intelligence innovation and development.
The proposed Capital Campus reflects a growing belief that higher education—not office towers—could become the next major driver of urban revitalization.

ULI-backed strategies helped this coastal California locale build its economic base on industry. Now, a proposed AI-era manufacturing building and a massive new housing plan are poised to test that strategy—and reshape the town.

Orange County Office Market Posts Strongest Absorption Since COVID as Tier One Vacancy Falls to 9.8% The Orange County office […] The post Why OC Office Vacancy Just Hit a Turning Point – Podcast Recap with Mike Adams of Stream Realty appeared first on CompStak .

The 2026 Colliers Logistics & Transportation (L&T) Supply Chain Conference brought industry leaders from across North America together in Huntington Beach, CA. The energy and sentiment of the conference-goers proved to be in sync with the breezy California beach conditions. After a stretch defined by rapid…

The 2026 BOMA International Medical Real Estate Conference was held in San Diego, CA, from April 29 to May 1. It highlighted a sector at a pivotal inflection point, where technology, care delivery transformation, and operational discipline are converging to reshape medical real estate strategy. Speakers emphasized…