Following a nominal slip at the end of last year, the average asking rent for an apartment in a building with over 50 units in San Francisco inched up $4 a month (0.1 percent) to $3,620 in the first quarter of 2016 and $16 a month (0.7 percent) to... Read More »

While it’s a nominal change, the average asking rent for an apartment in a building with over 50 units in both San Francisco and the East Bay slipped at the end of 2015 as a post-recession wave of new construction, the pipeline of which has hit a record high,... Read More »

The average asking rent for office space in San Francisco hit a record high of $68.14 per square foot at the end of 2015, surpassing the dot-com record of $66.00 per square foot set in the fourth quarter of 2000 by 3.2 percent. And at 5.9 percent, the current... Read More »

Near the end of 2014 we outlined why Oakland was at a tipping point with respect to demand for office space and growth. As we wrote at the time: “In San Francisco, the demand for office space is at an all-time high and office rents have increased 15 percent... Read More »

The average asking rent for an apartment in a building with at least 50 units in San Francisco ticked up to a record $3,623 per month in the third quarter of 2015, up 2.8 percent over the past three months but only (yes, only) 6.6 percent higher versus the... Read More »

$6.49 billion of Bay Area commercial real estate, defined as properties valued at over $5 million apiece, traded hands in the third quarter of 2015, down 5.7 percent from $6.88 billion in the third quarter of 2014 and a 20-ish percent drop in dollar volume from the second quarter... Read More »

The average asking rent for San Francisco office space hit a record high of $66.71 per square foot at the end of the third quarter, surpassing the previous record of $66.00 per square foot set in the fourth quarter of 2000.  And at 6.0 percent, the current office vacancy... Read More »

Rents for retail spaces around San Francisco’s Union Square have increased at the fastest pace of all prime retail areas across the globe over the past year, up 30 percent to an average of $650 per square-foot per year, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest Main Streets Across the World... Read More »

With demand for office space in San Francisco at an all-time high and office rents having increased 15 percent over the past year and nearly doubling since the first quarter of 2010, Cushman & Wakefield is forecasting that office rents in the city will increase by another 6 percent a year in... Read More »

As we first reported last month about the boutique office building to rise at 85 Bluxome: The financing to raze one of the last original porn studios left in SoMa and construct a five-story office building on its Bluxome Street site has been secured and the official groundbreaking for... Read More »