Pendulum Property Partners Acquires 747 Front St. for $49MM via Foreclosure in San Francisco’s Jackson Square
Why this matters
Office continues to trade in two distinct markets: trophy assets in walkable submarkets that are leasing at or near record rents, and commodity Class B and C buildings where the basis is still resetting. Underwriting on the latter has moved toward replacement-cost-minus, with credit underwriting now leaning on tenant covenant and remaining lease term rather than mark-to-market expectations. 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. For LP-positioned capital, the read-through is that the bifurcation is now a structural feature of the sector, not a cycle to wait out.
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Pendulum’s $49 million buy comes in at roughly $600 per square foot, well below the $834 the building fetched in 2019. Orange County-based Pendulum Property Partners has taken ownership of a fully leased office buildi…
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