Intuitive Surgical Leases 47,000 SQFT at 1150 Kifer Road in Sunnyvale After Selling Nearby Parcels to Fortinet
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 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. The next twelve months will continue to reward underwriting discipline and operational sophistication over balance-sheet aggression.
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Intuitive Surgical leased 46,849 square feet at 1150 Kifer Road in Sunnyvale, one of the largest Bay Area life sciences deals of the third quarter and a fresh commitment to the Kifer Road corridor just months after th…
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