The Registry - The Bay Area Real Estate Journal

February 3, 2012 | San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric Co., one of the largest natural gas and electric utilities in the country, is on the cusp of finalizing a 250,000 square-foot lease to occupy a building at San Ramon’s Bishop Ranch 1.

The new digs are intended to house the utility’s natural gas division, which has been in the regulatory and public spotlight since a fire and explosion in San Bruno on Sept. 9, 2010, killed eight people and spawned a tsunami of regulatory activity at the state and federal levels as well as civil litigation and a criminal investigation. More...

New Federal Health Care Law Propels Sector’s Growth

February 2, 2012 | Community health centers across the Bay Area are expanding as the first phase of the new federal health care law goes into effect bringing thousands of new patients to their doors. Moreover, millions more patients are expected across California beginning in 2014, assuming the law is allowed to fully kick in.

Long Wharf Sells Cupertino, Buys SoMa

February 1, 2012 | A Boston-based private equity real estate manager has closed a Cupertino property sale and completed an investment in San Francisco’s hugely popular South of Market in what company executives hope will be only its first Bay Area investments.

Oakland’s Lake Merritt Apartments Sell

January 30, 2012 | Thirty-seven apartments in the Adams Point district near Oakland’s Lake Merritt have sold for $4.8 million, or not quite $130,000 a unit.

Cornish: Bay Area Property Values Will Continue to Rise in 2012

January 24, 2012 | Bay Area commercial property buyers will accept even lower investment returns for the opportunity to catch the technology expansion wave, according to a new forecast from brokerage Cornish & Carey Commercial Newmark Knight Frank.

San Francisco Pension Fund Hires Internal Real Estate Manager

January 25, 2012 | Lindsey Adams has been named senior portfolio manager for real estate for the San Francisco City and County Employees’ Retirement System, filling a post that has been vacant for nearly two years.

Swig Co. Sells San Francisco Waterfront Building

January 24, 2012 | San Diego real estate investment trust American Assets Trust Inc. has acquired One Beach Street in San Francisco for approximately $36.5 million, or more than $376 a square foot.

Interiors Star Irving Joins HOK in San Francisco

January 23, 2012 | Richard Irving, an interior designer whose history includes work for The Getty Center in Los Angeles and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck, has joined the San Francisco office of global design firm HOK as its first design principal representing the interiors discipline.

New Urban Properties Selling in San Francisco

January 22, 2012 | San Francisco-based New Urban Properties LLC has sold two historic San Francisco office buildings acquired as part of a string of similar purchases from March 2006 to January 2008. It also is in escrow to sell a third San Francisco historic building at 332 Pine St., where it has its own headquarters location in the penthouse.

San Francisco Foundry Square Buildings On the Block

January 19, 2012 | Two Howard Street office buildings in the heart of San Francisco's South of Market have been put up for sale: the 335,000 square-foot Foundry Square I at 400 Howard St. and the 224,900 square-foot Foundry Square IV at 500 Howard St.

Economist: Bay Area Commercial Real Estate Poised for Strong Run

January 19, 2012 | For those seeking insight into the world’s economic future, Kevin Thorpe has a suggestion: Watch copper prices and Italian bond yields.

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