Stanford Files Long-Awaited 1.8 Million SQFT Growth Plan With Santa Clara County
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. The next twelve months will continue to reward underwriting discipline and operational sophistication over balance-sheet aggression.
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Eighteen months of listening sessions and a 22-member advisory council produced a plan that trades some of 2016’s academic square footage for a renewed push to lock the county into a binding development agreement. Sta…
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