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Oakland is shedding its old reputation as a city once plagued with crime, and developers and investors are scrambling to secure a foothold. Thousands of units of housing are in the works and more people want to live here. 
“We're like the girl in middle school who just got her braces off,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said during a Bisnow event Tuesday. “We've always been cute, but suddenly everyone's noticed us. … Oakland is hot.” While Oakland still has…
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Tenants Love Bike Rooms. Bike Repair Shops? Not So Much.While real estate is all about location, multifamily amenities are what drive leasing activity. In Silicon Valley, multifamily developers are having to take the extra step to add that one amenity that everyone is talking about. But the next big amenity does not always work. 
“Bike storage works all the time, for sure, but we thought a shared bike repair shop would be really cool: three racks, tools, people can have conversations around their bikes,” Harmonie Park principal Don Capobres said during a recent Bisnow event…
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Why The San Francisco Bay Area Life Sciences Market Dominates All Others
The San Francisco Bay Area remains one of the top life sciences markets in the country with strong research funding, significant employment growth and access to top-tier universities and talent. The region also has the largest number of life sciences companies…
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Commercial Real Estate Pricing Drops Nationally As The Search For Attractive Assets ContinuesCommercial real estate pricing entered 2018 on a low note. Nationwide prices fell 0.3% last month, representing the ninth consecutive month of declines. “We edged off historic highs. The declines over the last three quarters have been mild and more of a stagnation than a decline,” Ten-X Senior Quantitative Strategist Chris Muoio said. “Prices have plateaued.” |
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8 Things To Know While Watching The Winter Olympics In South KoreaPart sport, part business, part spectacle, part bragging rights for the host nation: the Olympics are all that and more. The games also have a real estate impact, sometimes leaving behind valuable infrastructure, such as the 1936 Olympic stadium in Berlin, and at other times white elephants, such as pretty much anything built for the 2004 Athens Games. Now the games are coming to rural South Korea in a sparsely populated mountainous region that hopes to be a wintertime destination. Here are eight things to know about South Korea and the games ahead of the event. |
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