July 15, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Brian Bandell – Real Estate Editor, South Florida Business Journal Jul 14, 2023 Updated Jul 14, 2023 10:26am PDT A spike in interest rates has created challenges for many commercial real estate owners as their low-rate loans come due, and some landlords in Silicon Valley have a key deadline bearing down. According to an analysis of commercial […]
July 8, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ashley Fahey – Editor, The National Observer: Real Estate Edition, The Business Journals Jul 5, 2023 Updated Jul 5, 2023 2:05pm PDT All eyes are on mounting debt in the commercial real estate world, which continues to struggle with higher interest rates, a more cautious lending environment and muted return-to-office and leasing activity in the wake of […]
June 24, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Laura Waxmann – Staff Reporter, San Francisco Business Times Jun 20, 2023 Updated Jun 20, 2023, 3:01pm PDT At least three San Francisco office buildings re-listed at severe discounts after failing to achieve asking prices in recent years are now under contract, a sign that the days of landlords “testing the market” to gauge office values amid rising vacancy […]
May 17, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ashley Fahey – Editor, The National Observer: Real Estate Edition, May 15, 2023 The national office market is off to a tough start this year, with leasing activity continuing to slow, vacancy rising and the ever-looming threat of debt maturities. Office market reports from major commercial real estate brokerages point to a market that’s yet to find […]
May 13, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
May 12, 2023 By The Registry Staff Veritas Investments, the prominent residential landlord in San Francisco, led by its CEO Yat-Pang Au, is facing the potential loss of over a third of its apartment portfolio in the city as its lenders move forward with the sale of $1 billion in delinquent loans tied to Veritas properties. […]
April 5, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Kate Snyder April 4, 2023 Silicon Valley’s leasing market is seeing more space put up for grabs. An electric vehicle manufacturing company that occupies an 85,017 square foot building in San Jose appears to not be renewing its lease as the property has hit the leasing market, according to marketing information from Colliers and CBRE, […]
March 11, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
March 7, 2023 Patrick Sisson, Bisnow National Roblox was the 2022 definition of a tech unicorn, as far as real estate was concerned. It wasn’t about valuation or fundraising; the company behind the popular all-ages online gaming platform both promoted an in-person, in-office corporate culture and was growing. Google Maps 1211 Sixth Ave., where Fox Corp. and News Corp. […]
January 31, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
Jan 27, 2023 San Francisco certainly isn’t the only major U.S. city experiencing high office vacancy rates, but its numbers are among the most severe. We took a look at Cushman & Wakefield’s Office MarketBeat reports to see how the city’s office vacancy rates and asking rent compare to other cities. When putting them side […]
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 […]
July 16, 2022    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Chelsea Nguyen-Fleige – Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal Jul 15, 2022 The market for office space in Silicon Valley cooled off markedly in the second quarter, according to a new report. The net amount of space absorbed in the period — i.e., the amount of space leased, occupied or torn down less the amount of space vacated […]