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September 12, 2025
Salesforce inks major New York office expansion to mirror growth across AI business
Salesforce is expanding its footprint at its namesake New York tower, adding more than 71,000 square feet as it grows to meet surging demand from the artificial intelligence boom.
September 12, 2025
Global architecture firm expands in Bay Area
Architecture firm 10 Design has made several new key senior hires, including appointing a new CEO and a prominent San Francisco architect to oversee its Bay Area practice.
September 10, 2025
German robotics startup opens US headquarters in San Francisco
A German startup that makes modular industrial robot arms that can be used by small-scale manufacturers has picked San Francisco for its United States headquarters.
September 9, 2025
From rival to owner: Barnes & Noble buys the Bay Area’s oldest independent bookstore
Books Inc. weathered the Civil War and both World Wars, the Great Depression and the rise of the internet and Amazon.com. But the chain — one of the nation’s oldest — said earlier this year that it was filing for bankruptcy protection, citing rising costs, disappearing readership and other pressures that have challenged indie bookstore chains for years, since the advent of big box book retailers.
September 9, 2025
AI surge buoys offices — for now — in San Francisco, New York and Seattle
The surge in artificial intelligence has fueled demand for AI-specialty tech workers in real estate, finance, insurance and other industries, giving a boost — at least for now — to an office recovery in markets from San Francisco to New York.
September 9, 2025
San Francisco multifamily rent growth sets the pace
Multifamily rent levels in San Francisco moved up in August, with the average monthly rent reaching a new high of more than $3,300. The annual growth rate of over 6% remains the highest among the major US markets, with a sizeable gap to the second-highest market, Chicago, at 3.75%.
September 8, 2025
Major West Coast hotels face foreclosures and ownership shake-ups amid debt pressures
The U.S. hotel sector is facing an uptick in distress, with several high-profile properties in key markets changing hands through foreclosure, deed-in-lieu transfers and other lender-driven actions.
September 8, 2025
Accor’s Las Vegas push points to targeted US hotels growth strategy
Accor's debut in Las Vegas is a big move for the French hotel giant.
September 5, 2025
New owners of GoPro’s Silicon Valley office campus set sight on residential future
The sprawling Silicon Valley business park that’s home to wearable camera company GoPro is set to be turned into single-family homes, as real estate investors strategize how to contend with record office vacancy rates and a nationwide housing crisis.
September 5, 2025
One of America’s oldest shopping malls starts transformation into mixed-use
The Westlake Shopping Center, one of America’s first malls, is being turned into a mixed-use development with more than 200 homes.
September 4, 2025
Old Navy to sail into new territory: beauty
Old Navy will soon be making room at its stores to sell beauty products.
September 4, 2025
San Francisco sees third office sale this year above $100 million
San Francisco has counted its third office sale this year above $100 million, signaling investor confidence in a real estate rebound for the city after the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 4, 2025
Investors scoop up historic office building in downtown San Francisco
A historic office building constructed just after the 1906 earthquake leveled most of San Francisco has emerged from the city's most recent crisis with a new owner, as faith builds in the city's downtown resurgence.
September 3, 2025
Former Rolling Stone building in San Francisco’s AI hub seeks office tenants
In the late 1970s, Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner packed up and moved the magazine's headquarters to New York, dismissing its former hometown of San Francisco as a “provincial backwater.” But its early home still remains — and is seeking some new tenants.
September 2, 2025
AI startup takes over Meta sublease to plant new California headquarters
Social media giant Meta has landed a sublease agreement with artificial intelligence firm Moloco to take over a full Silicon Valley office building.
September 2, 2025
CrowdStrike bulks up in Silicon Valley with deal to anchor new office development
A cybersecurity company's deal to take over roughly half of a recently completed office building in the nation's most powerful tech hub is the latest sign that big deals are back in Silicon Valley.
August 29, 2025
San Francisco Bay Area investment market cools for retail properties
Investment sales activity for retail properties in the San Francisco Bay Area declined again in the second quarter of 2025. Trailing 12-month deal volume fell to $1.7 billion, a 14% fall from the first quarter.
August 28, 2025
Apartment property manager Sentral hires new COO
Property management company Sentral, which oversees high-end apartment buildings around the country, has appointed San Francisco real estate executive Billie Hazley to serve as the company’s chief operating officer.
August 28, 2025
Shorenstein buys San Francisco Bay Area office and retail complex in big-ticket deal
A mixed-use office and retail complex within the redeveloped Bay Meadows racetrack site south of San Francisco has sold for $175 million, in the latest example of how the Bay Area’s office market continues to regain momentum.
August 27, 2025
This San Francisco apartment project tests California law as state struggles to build homes
Photo ops of besuited politicians leaning on shovels aren’t something San Franciscans see very often these days.

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