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San Jose’s City Council green lit 3 major Downtown building projects
December 4, 2022 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Troy Wolverton – Managing Editor, Silicon Valley Business Journal Nov 30, 2022 Here are the projects the Council green lit: The Orchard Developers: Westbank, Urban Community Location: 409 and 425 S. 2nd St. at the corner of East San Salvador Street in the city’s SoFA district. Description: A 30-story, mixed use tower with 540 residences; 7,430 square feet of ground […]
Housing markets with highest share of equity rich households undergo biggest corrections
November 11, 2022 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ashley Fahey – Editor, The National Observer: Real Estate Edition, Nov 9, 2022 Even with a rapidly cooling housing market, homeowners across the U.S. are sitting on near-record levels of equity. A recent analysis by Irvine, California-based Attom Data Solutions LLC found 48.5% of mortgaged residential properties nationally were considered equity-rich in the third quarter. A property […]
Q3 spike in loans with negative leverage signals how commercial real estate dealmaking is changing
November 3, 2022 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ashley Fahey – Editor, The National Observer: Real Estate Edition, Nov 2, 2022 Updated Nov 2, 2022, 11:21am PDT Negative leverage in the commercial real estate market seen in the third quarter hasn’t reached similar levels since the 1980s. That’s according to an analysis by New York-based Moody’s Analytics Inc., which found the share of commercial mortgage-backed securities loans […]
Ranked: 30 housing markets where values are cooling the fastest — or even declining
October 28, 2022 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ashley Fahey – Editor, The National Observer: Real Estate Edition Oct 26, 2022 Some were booming before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Others shot up in popularity arguably because of the pandemic. A few have been slow-but-steady-growth markets for some time. The national housing market slowdown has been one of the headlining stories of 2022, after a […]
5 Bay Area suburban office buildings change hands in $1.1B portfolio deal
August 29, 2022 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Douglas Fruehling – Editor-in-Chief, San Francisco Business Times Aug 29, 2022 A $1.1 billion suburban office building portfolio sale announced Monday morning includes five Bay Area properties comprising nearly 500,000 square feet, a bet that the suburbs will come back stronger than central business districts. Workspace Property Trust, a privately held real estate company, joined forces with sovereign wealth […]
Nearly 500 housing units pitched for South Fremont BART station
August 23, 2022 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Sarah Klearman – Staff Reporter, San Francisco Business Times Aug 22, 2022 Updated Aug 22, 2022, 4:56pm PDT The longtime owners of nearly 10 acres adjacent to the Warm Springs/South Fremont BART station have big plans for the land. They have proposed building nearly 500 multifamily units and townhomes on Lopes Road and Warm Springs Boulevard, about a block […]
There’s a lucrative change for small businesses in the Inflation Reduction Act
August 10, 2022 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Andy Medici – Senior Reporter, The Playbook, Aug 9, 2022 The Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping health care and climate change bill, but there is also a potentially lucrative tax credit for small-business owners included in the bill. The bill, which must still pass the House and be signed by President Joe Biden, contains a minimum […]
Morgan Hill Gets Industrial
August 6, 2022 By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Chelsea Nguyen-Fleige – Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal Aug 4, 2022 Updated Aug 4, 2022, 1:23pm PDT Editor’s note: Join the Business Journal for a special virtual event Aug. 11 to hear more about Morgan Hill’s approach to development. Register for the free event here. A few minutes north of Morgan Hill’s downtown stand five new buildings in a 410,000-square-foot campus […]
