Brookfield, Coastal Ridge Acquire 260-Unit The Grad Student Tower in Downtown San Jose for $204.8MM
Why this matters
Multifamily has been the most actively underwritten sector through the rate cycle, with cap rate compression resuming in Sun Belt and gateway markets as 2024-2025 deliveries roll off and refinance demand on 2021-vintage bridge loans clears. Transaction velocity is up modestly, concentrated in stabilized Class A and grocery-adjacent garden assets. San Francisco continues to clear office at the deepest discounts to 2019 basis seen in the cycle, while multifamily fundamentals have stabilized and life sciences in the Peninsula remains active. Allocators continue to favor residential for its income durability and its insulation from secular demand questions that still hang over commercial sectors.
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On the RET wire
- The 40th San Francisco story tracked on the wire in October 2026. All San Francisco coverage →
- Disclosed multifamily deal value tracked in October 2026: $2.1B across 30 reported transactions. All Multifamily coverage →
- 38 stories mentioning Brookfield on the wire in the past 90 days. Brookfield coverage →
Computed from Real Estate Trail’s own tracked coverage
The 1,039-bed purchase comes as Bay Area apartment deliveries fall to their lowest level since 2013 and national student housing preleasing nears 90 percent, according to Cushman & Wakefield and Yardi Matrix. San Jose…
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