The epicenter of the office reset, now stabilizing on AI-driven leasing demand, while multifamily and retail in the core work back from cyclical lows.
The San Francisco commercial real estate market is navigating a complex landscape characterized by shifting demand dynamics and evolving tenant preferences. While certain sectors face headwinds, particularly in office space, others, such as logistics and life sciences, continue to attract interest from investors seeking resilience. Capital flows are increasingly cautious, with lenders adopting a more selective approach, reflecting broader economic uncertainties and a recalibration of risk appetites among allocators.
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SAN FRANCISCO, September 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD) declared a regular cash dividend for the quarter ending September 30, 2026, on the following securities: A dividend…
Deutsche Finance Group and its American subsidiary have hauled Germany's largest public pension group into a Delaware courtroom, alleging that Bayerische Versorgungskammer secretly steered the nearly $2 billion U.S. p…
The 153,549-square-foot Class A tower that AllianceBernstein seized from PCCP in a 2025 foreclosure has traded for $44.25 million, roughly doubling the lender's basis and handing a newly capitalized Bay Area fund its…
San Jose is on the verge of renaming its oldest and most prominent downtown gathering space, a 2.3-acre civic anchor surrounded by the city's marquee cultural and hospitality assets, as officials move to strip César C…
A four-story Union Square building anchored by Bang & Olufsen’s West Coast flagship has changed hands for $20.5 million, three years after its previous owner walked away from the vacant property rather than keep payin…
City planning staff have signed off on the seven-story, all-affordable proposal from the Sobrato Organization and Pacific West Communities, sending the downtown parking-lot redevelopment to a Sept. 3 director's hearin…
SAN FRANCISCO, September 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD) declared a regular cash dividend for the quarter ending September 30, 2026, on the following securities: A dividend…
Deutsche Finance Group and its American subsidiary have hauled Germany's largest public pension group into a Delaware courtroom, alleging that Bayerische Versorgungskammer secretly steered the nearly $2 billion U.S. p…
The 153,549-square-foot Class A tower that AllianceBernstein seized from PCCP in a 2025 foreclosure has traded for $44.25 million, roughly doubling the lender's basis and handing a newly capitalized Bay Area fund its…
San Jose is on the verge of renaming its oldest and most prominent downtown gathering space, a 2.3-acre civic anchor surrounded by the city's marquee cultural and hospitality assets, as officials move to strip César C…
A four-story Union Square building anchored by Bang & Olufsen’s West Coast flagship has changed hands for $20.5 million, three years after its previous owner walked away from the vacant property rather than keep payin…
City planning staff have signed off on the seven-story, all-affordable proposal from the Sobrato Organization and Pacific West Communities, sending the downtown parking-lot redevelopment to a Sept. 3 director's hearin…
TMG and Grove step in as operating partners on a 140-acre, six-campus R&D platform even as vacancy climbs and per-square-foot pricing lags well behind its five-year average across Silicon Valley’s Golden Triangle. TMG…
TMG and Grove step in as operating partners on a 140-acre, six-campus R&D platform even as vacancy climbs and per-square-foot pricing lags well behind its five-year average across Silicon Valley’s Golden Triangle. TMG…
Marking a new chapter as the Campus develops as a shared civic home for Jewish life OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As the East Bay Jewish Community Campus opens its doors and moves into its next growth…
An East Coast apartment investor has paid a per-unit price well above the South Bay’s recent average to land a downtown San Jose property, the latest sign of investor demand converging on a market where new supply has…
Using progressive design-build, the builder will deliver new educational, clinical and collaborative spaces on UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus.
CBRE's North America Data Center Trends webinar for the first half of 2026 described a national supply crunch that plays out with a cruel twist in Silicon Valley, where inventory is plentiful but nearly 100 megawatts…
Pacific Gas & Electric has hired JLL to find a buyer for the Power Bunker, its decommissioned former Substation I in South of Market, offering as much as 12 megawatts of power to artificial intelligence and computing…
The San Jose City Council voted 9-2 to rezone the 35-acre developed core of IBM's former Almaden Research Center for industrial use, a move environmental groups warn could let a future data center sidestep environment…
KPMG’s new building puts it inside the same tower as roughly 100,000 square feet of Anthropic office space, part of an AI company footprint in the immediate area that now tops 900,000 square feet across two buildings.…
At roughly $125,000 per bed, the deal lands slightly below the national student housing average even though the property sits a block from campus — a pricing gap that points to San Jose-specific market dynamics rather…
The 218-unit Diridon Station-area property topped the per-unit pricing of every other asset in a Bay Area apartment sweep tied to the AvalonBay-Equity Residential merger, a signal of how tightly investors are pricing…
San Jose officials have winnowed more than 600 resident suggestions for renaming the nearly 250-year-old Plaza de César Chávez down to five finalists, opening a ranked-choice survey that will help shape the future ide…
A California Association of Realtors-backed nonprofit has sued San Francisco, alleging the city illegally carved out swaths of land from a new state law meant to unlock housing near rail and transit stations. The post…
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco is pressing ahead with a for-sale affordable housing community on a 13.5-acre PG&E-donated parcel along Novato's Redwood Boulevard, a project it bills as the largest of its k…
The mega-merger of AvalonBay Communities and Equity Residential triggered the purchases of at least seven apartment complexes in the South Bay and East Bay, the Mercury News reported . Affiliates of Vivmark Residentia…
AI coding startup Cognition has agreed to sublease the 180,000-square-foot building at 333 Brannan Street from collapsed robotaxi operator Cruise, backfilling one of three South of Market buildings a General Motors su…
San Francisco-based law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP is pleased to welcome Raymond Buddie to the firm’s partnership. Ray brings more than 30 years of experience representing clients in complex construction mat…
BENICIA, CALIF. — CBRE has brokered the $87.5 million sale of a nine-building industrial portfolio in Benecia, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. NorthPoint Development purchased the buildings, which are located with…
The University of California, San Francisco has selected a progressive design-build team to deliver a new education center and dental clinics inside the two Mission Bay life sciences buildings it acquired for $767 mil…
California’s statewide wage floor will climb to a nation-leading $17.40 an hour in 2027, but for Bay Area property owners and their tenants, local ordinances have already pushed labor costs well past the new baseline.…
U.S. hotels posted their 19th straight week of positive year-over-year results for the week of 16-22 August, with RevPAR up 4.4% to $106.12; San Francisco and St. Louis led gains.
The $465,000-per-unit price lands near the middle of a run of recent Santa Clara County apartment trades, arriving as Essex’s own leadership points to constrained housing supply and steady tech-sector demand as the dr…
JLL ’s Capital Markets group completed the sale of a two-property seniors housing portfolio totaling 545 units in San Jose and Roseville. Senior managing director Aaron Rosenzweig, along with senior director Dan Baker…
CBRE has arranged the $87.5-million sale of a nine‑building, 534,550‑square‑foot industrial portfolio located in the Benicia Industrial Park in the San Francisco Bay Area to NorthPoint Development. Included in the sal…
PlusAI has extended its roughly 36,000-square-foot lease at 41300 Boyce Road in Fremont, keeping the self-driving trucking developer rooted in the East Bay as AI and robotics tenants power a Silicon Valley leasing sur…
San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties posted among California's lowest unemployment rates in July even as office-using sectors across the state shed thousands of jobs, underscoring the Bay Area's relative…
CBRE is marketing the fully built-out, four-story building as a plug-and-play sublease opportunity inside Peery Arrillaga’s Brokaw Campus, a North San Jose office cluster Google leased before it was even constructed b…
San Jose's City Council endorsed the broad framework of a sweeping General Plan housing overhaul on Aug. 18 but declined to lock in a fourfold increase in neighborhood density, instead ordering planners to study a ran…