Santa Clara/San Mateo new home sales plunge
By Jane Zastrow
New home sales in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties in the third quarter dropped 16.6 percent to a total of 1,452 units sold...
Eight-month California construction volume up 13.4%
By Ron Mc Nees
With highway and heavy construction starting to flex its muscles and the Southern California region showing substantial gains...
Info providers add services to compete with upstarts
By Jane Zastrow
By Jane Bowar Zastrow Comps.com ... LoopNet, CoStar, PropertyFirst.com ... PropertyGo.com ... NAIdirect.com ... It may have t...
Design contracts
By John Mc Cloud
Announcements of design contracts awarded in the past month, listed by square footage. Firm Client Project Sq.Ft./Size Type W...
Apartments get $44 million
By Ron Mc Nees
GMAC Commercial Mortgage provided $44 million in construction and permanent financing to Playa Phase I Apartments LLC for the...
Retail projects launched
By Ron Mc Nees
FIRM PROJECT SQ.FT. TYPE COST APROVED Announcements received in the past month of retail developments getting under way, list...
On the Scene -- Santa Clara/Silicon Valley
By Staff Writer
San Jose On the right track Mayor Ron Gonzales and the city's Board of Supervisors issued a proclamation of thanks to a coali...
VA hospital upgrade to cost $48 million
By Ron Mc Nees
Sacramento - The Veterans Administration is set to begin a $48 million renovation and upgrade of the Veterans Affairs hospita...
Necessary Notices
By Columnist
By Richard S. Rosenberg Many of the federal and state labor laws applicable to law firms require the firm to post compliance ...
San Francisco taxes as high as its hills
By Ron Mc Nees
The 1999 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey (r) finds that San Francisco is one of only three communities in Northern Cali...
Tribune returns to its landmark home
By Ron Mc Nees
Oakland - Almost exactly a decade after leaving the Tribune Tower on 13th Street near Broadway, employees of the Oakland Trib...
On the Scene -- Sacramento/North Bay
By Staff Writer
Stockton $60 million men Blake Rasmussen and David Haggerty can take credit for the largest Central Valley deal in many years...
Air quality district imposes strict rules
By Ron Mc Nees
Rancho Cordova - Developers of the first project in the proposed Sunrise-Douglas community have agreed to the strongest set o...
Media company takes the initiative at Wilshire Courtyard
By Ron Mc Nees
Western Initiative Media Worldwide leased 130,000 square feet of office space at Wilshire Courtyard. The 15-year transaction ...
Off-Premises Policy
By Columnist
By Manik K. Rath and Kimberly Ann Gates Today, employees are working from home in increasing numbers. With telecommuting's po...
Group acquires design center
By Ron Mc Nees
An East Coast group purchased the 1.2 million-square-foot Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood from Teachers Insurance Ann...
Technologys impact on the real estate industry
By Jane Zastrow
What are the top one or two computer or Internet tools or services that have had the greatest effect on the commercial real e...
Bakersfield, Visalia reasonably priced
By Contributing Writer
Bakersfield, Visalia reasonably priced Findings from the 1999 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey(r) indicate that the citi...
Concrete-frame structures pose serious quake risk
By Ron Mc Nees
San Francisco - The recent earthquakes in Turkey, Greece and Taiwan sent shock waves through California's construction and in...
Governor signs notification measure, vetoes big box bill
By Columnist
Gov. Gray Davis signed SB 1200 (Poochigian, R-Fresno), the California Business Properties Association-sponsored measure that ...
Still flying high: First quarter dip just an anomaly
By Contributing Writer
By John McCloud It's optimists 1, pessimists 0 in this year's decidedly unofficial San Francisco office market forecast derby...
Painting , Arden left hanging
By Staff Writer
The 2nd District California Court of Appeal ruled that copyright infringement arising out of hanging a painting in a building...
Voit Management merges with Transwestern
By Julie Nakashima
Woodland Hills - Voit Management Co. is the latest property management firm to go the merger route, agreeing to join Chicago-...
M&A commercial real estate deals in California, third quarter 1999
By Jane Zastrow
Mergerstat Custom Report for the California Real Estate Journal Data as of 10/06/99 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,...
Californias largest construction loans for September
By Ron Mc Nees
BANKBOSTON NA $125,000,000 1610700039 WESTERN PACIFIC HOUSING MARTINEZ, CA 7026 KOLL CENTER PKY, 225, PLEASANTON, CA 94566 26...
Brokerage assignments
By Ron Mc Nees
Announcements received in the last month of sales and leasing assignments listed by square footage. FIRM CLIENT PROJECT SQ.FT...
$73 million funds AirTouch headquarters construction
By Ron Mc Nees
Newport Beach - Construction of a five-building corporate headquarters for AirTouch in Irvine has been financed with a $73 mi...
Oil company mergers leave office space on the market
By Ron Mc Nees
Commercial real estate in Bakersfield is a study in contrasts. In office buildings, there has been significant play, especial...
Ohio developer to turn Ford plant to housing
By Ron Mc Nees
Richmond - The city's nearly two-decade effort to convert an historic automobile factory to a new use has finally borne fruit...
Design completed for retail, entertainment complex
By Ron Mc Nees
West Hollywood - The Los Angeles office of RTKL/ID8 has completed design for the 275,000-square-foot first phase of West Holl...