A Different Downtown San Diego Is Taking Shape
Why this matters
Commercial real estate continues to digest a multi-year reset in cost of capital. Transaction velocity is below the 2019-2021 trend but improving, cap rates have stabilized across most stabilized property types, and the bid-ask gap has narrowed materially in the past two quarters. Sponsors with permanent capital and operating platforms have an advantage in the current execution environment. San Diego life sciences vacancy remains the lowest in the major life-science clusters, and multifamily fundamentals continue to be supported by a coastal supply ceiling. The next twelve months will continue to reward underwriting discipline and operational sophistication over balance-sheet aggression.
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On the RET wire
- The 19th San Diego story tracked on the wire in September 2026. All San Diego coverage →
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Downtown San Diego looks a lot different than it did a year ago. People who haven’t spent much time there recently may still picture the challenges that dominated conversations before: quiet streets, empty storefronts…
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