Propositions 1 and 37 Put $36B Housing Bet Before Northern California Voters
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
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- Disclosed multifamily deal value tracked in September 2026: $9.2B across 114 reported transactions. All Multifamily coverage →
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The two measures on California's November ballot would authorize more than $36 billion in bonds to build affordable apartments and push middle-income renters in high-cost markets like the Bay Area into newly built for…
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