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 […]
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. […]
May 9, 2023    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By SVBJ staff May 5, 2023 Take a look at Small Business Administration lending trends in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Sacramento regions.
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 […]