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San Francisco Peninsula Archives - The Ivy Group

What Do Brokers Do When They Can’t Even Give Office Space Away?

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. […]

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Meet Anne Cochran, divorce attorney to the Silicon Valley elite

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. […]

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Carmel Partners & Affiliates Make Massive Apartment Portfolio Acquisition in Daly City Valued over $1.3B

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 […]

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How San Francisco’s office vacancy rates compare to other cities

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 […]

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Housing prices in the San Jose metro area fell 3.3% from October to November, the biggest decline nationwide

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 […]

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Housing markets with highest share of equity rich households undergo biggest corrections

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 […]

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Q3 spike in loans with negative leverage signals how commercial real estate dealmaking is changing

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 […]

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Ranked: 30 housing markets where values are cooling the fastest — or even declining

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 […]

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5 Bay Area suburban office buildings change hands in $1.1B portfolio deal

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 […]

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Silicon Valley’s office leasing market slowed down in 2Q22

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 […]

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