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By Kate Snyder A newly constructed high-rise condominium complex has just hit the market in downtown San Jose. The two-tower residential community totals 640 units, although some units have been sold and are not part of the offering, according to marketing information from JLL, which is the advisor on the property. According to a report from […]

By Kate Snyder Santa Clara’s industrial market recently saw a large sales transaction involving one of the city’s more prominent sites. The former Owens Corning plant and surrounding acreage was sold to an affiliate of Amazon for $237.8 million in an all-cash deal, according to a report by The Mercury News. The buyer was Amazon.com Services, […]

January 30, 2023 By Kate Snyder More than a year after it first acquired the site, Amazon is now selling a 395,335 square-foot commercial office property in Milpitas, according to industry reports. The sale price has not been disclosed, but the buyer is reported to be Dermody Properties LLC. Amazon first purchased the site in 2021 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]