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. […]
February 25, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ted Andersen – Digital Editor, San Francisco Business Times Feb 24, 2023 Updated Feb 24, 2023, 5:29pm PST Marriage is supposed to be forever, but when it’s not, particularly for high-net-worth individuals in the Bay Area, a legal separation can cause ripple effects that cost millions. That’s when high-flying entrepreneurs and industry executives call Anne Cochran of Cochran FLP. […]
February 1, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
February 1, 2023 By Vladimir Bosanac San Francisco-based Gerson Bakar & Associates continued this week with a disposition of another one of its prized assets. The company has sold off its last Bay Area property, the Westlake Village Apartments, a 47-acre, nearly 3,000-unit apartment community in Daly City, to an entity affiliated with San Francisco-based Carmel […]
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 […]
December 26, 2022    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Olivia Peterkin – Digital Editor, Silicon Valley Business Journal Dec 22, 2022 Updated Dec 22, 2022, 3:24pm PST House values in the San Jose metro area fell faster than in any other major urban region in the country last month, according to a new report. The typical home in the region encompassing Santa Clara and San Benito counties saw […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]