Bay Area Commercial Boom: San Francisco Second To Santa Clara
Spending on commercial real estate construction activity around the Bay Area this year is expected to top the record $6 billion mark set in 2000 and could reach as high…
Plans For Two Jack London Square Towers And Nearly 700 Units
Having completed the first phase of its redevelopment of Oakland’s Jack London Square in 2008, Ellis Partners’ plan was to add a 120,000 square foot office/retail building at the corner…
Is The Identity Of The Castro Under Threat?
With thousands of units under development or already opening their doors along Market Street, and “the impossibly hip Hayes Valley, Mission, and Noe Valley encroaching on all sides,” a reader…
Fremont Beats Out San Francisco For Sellers According To Movoto
Based on median price and days on the market, the number of homes for sale per capital, the relative crime rates, school quality and employment rates, Movoto has deemed Fremont,…
Bay Area Rents Climb, East Bay Jumps 10 Percent In 3 Months
While the vacancy rate for apartments throughout the Bay Area has ticked up from 3.1 to 3.9 percent, according to Cassidy Turley the average rent has ticked up from $1,851…
Eight Acre North Oakland Development Set To Break New Ground
Having been waylaid by the BART strike, the ground breaking for Phase Two of MacArthur Station, the master-planned Transit-Oriented Development on BART’s former MacArthur Station parking lot in North Oakland,…
Is San Francisco Getting The Short End Of The Saitowitz Stick?
With the Stanley Saitowitz designed “Garden Village”, a 77-unit development of 18 interconnected buildings of three to five stories in height with 16 rooftop farm plots above and a fleet…
Breaking New Ground Over In Oakland Unless BART Is On Strike
Bridge Housing will officially break ground on Mural at 40th Street and Telegraph Avenue over in Oakland on October 25, the second phase of MacArthur Station, the master-planned development on…
East Bay Building Boom And Outlook For Rents
Last year, roughly 800 new rental units popped up in and around Oakland. And by the end of 2013, another 2,100 new units will have been constructed in the East…
San Francisco Rents Climb In Second Quarter, Cross $2K In Oakland
Having ticked up a few dollars from $2,741 in the fourth quarter of 2012 to $2,790 in the first quarter of 2013, the average apartment rent in San Francisco jumped…