San Francisco

Paramount Group Signs First Republic to SF Lease Expansion

The financial services provider’s 515,000-square-foot lease at One Front Street accounts for 80 percent of the 38-story trophy tower.

Bay Area Project Lands $515M in Financing

The U.S. arm of China’s Genzon Investment Group is developing the more than 800,000-square-foot office campus in Burlingame, Calif., which will be occupied by Facebook’s virtual reality firm Oculus. A Cushman & Wakefield team secured the financing package.

Newmark Knight Frank Appoints 1st NorCal Female Vice Chairman

Liz Hart, who joined NKF in 2005 as broker assistant, is the fifth female vice chairman in the company.

Top 10 Office Completions in San Francisco

As tech firms continue to grab more space, developers responded with a nearly unparalleled 5 million square feet of office deliveries over the past 12 months.

Pinterest Inks 490 KSF Lease in San Francisco

The popular website will be the anchor tenant at Alexandria Real Estate Equities’ 88 Bluxome St., in the SoMa neighborhood.

New York Life REI Originates $94M for Bay Area Office Asset

The 20-year mortgage will be used to finance the redevelopment of Westlake Realty Group’s nine-story, 118,000-square-foot headquarters in San Mateo.

Kidder Mathews Adds NorCal VP

Robert D’Elia has more than 40 years of experience in life science and biopharmaceutical facilities. His previous projects have a total value of $370 million.

BioMed Realty Buys $135M Bay Area Office Property

The company purchased the 250,000-square-foot Emeryville Center for Innovation in a sale-leaseback transaction. The deal also includes adjacent developable land parcels.

Oakmead West, Sunnyvale, Calif.

Hines Buys 430 KSF Campus in San Francisco Bay Area

Oakmead West, a complex of office/R&D buildings in Sunnyvale, last changed hands in 2013, when Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management acquired it for $119 million.

From Tenant to Owner: Making the Switch

How the proprietors of a popular San Francisco restaurant found financing to buy a mixed-use building through a federal loan program.