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From office and housing to industrial, investors are pining for assets in Oakland and developers are building more in this cycle than ever before. Oakland has shed its reputation as a city full of crime for a city full of investment and building opportunities. 
Offices are being built for the first time in 10 years, and thousands of housing units are in the pipeline and under construction. The average four-bedroom house costs about $1M, and two-bedroom apartment rent is about $3K/month, which is three…
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Beyond The Bio: Bisnow's 16 Questions With Institutional Real Estate Manager Victor MacFarlaneThis series profiles men and women in commercial real estate who have profoundly transformed our neighborhoods and reshaped our cities, businesses and lifestyles. MacFarlane Partners Chairman and CEO Victor MacFarlane pioneered the urban investment concept for institutional real estate managers in 1996. MacFarlane Partners, which he founded in 1987 to service institutional investors, exclusively focuses on urban revitalization, smart growth and sustainability in urban and high-density suburban submarkets of several gateway cities. His company has since invested $13B to launch its urban program. While MacFarlane Partners started in California markets like the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, it has since expanded into New York City, Seattle and Washington, D.C. |
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Los Angeles-Based Investor Grows Bay Area Multifamily Portfolio
Los Angeles-based Decron Properties Corp. has added an apartment complex to its Bay Area portfolio. It acquired the 220-unit Bridgecourt apartment complex in Emeryville for $87.4M, bringing its Bay Area multifamily footprint to 650 units. The seller was a JV…
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Why CRE C-Suites Could Stay Almost All White For At Least Another GenerationThe C-suites at the largest firms in commercial real estate are starkly white, but industry experts say federal hiring laws can cause even the most ambitious diversity campaigns to take generations to show results. Legal experts say it is more complicated than that, and people of color in the industry argue little, if any, progress has been made in recent years. |
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Aggressive M&A Activity, Robust Foreign Investment To Dominate Global Data Center Market In 2018Data center real estate soared in 2017, with global operators absorbing 583.5 megawatts during the 12-month period. Robust demand and aggressive investment activity in the data center space has reached new highs in the past few years as investors on the hunt for solid returns look beyond core real estate assets like office and multifamily for better yields. Net absorption in the U.S. and Canada led the globe in 2017, accounting for a combined 363.5 megawatts of positive net absorption, according to JLL's Data Center Outlook report. |
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