oWow Unit Pivots Stalled 25-Story San Jose Tower to 372 Affordable Apartments in $159.6MM Plan
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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- Disclosed multifamily deal value tracked in October 2026: $1.1B across 20 reported transactions. All Multifamily coverage →
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Oakland-based oWow, through its American Housing Co. subsidiary, has revived a long-stalled high-rise site one block from San Jose State University with a $159.6 million plan for 372 apartments, all but four of them i…
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