San Jose - Real Estate & Development

It seems like every week we hear about plans for a new high-rise building in downtown San Jose. This week is no different.

Facebook is now looking to build a huge new, living/working village development right by its already massive Menlo Park headquarters.

It’s something we’ve never seen before in the Bay Area, a residential development in the heart of a major city that sits next to a sizeable, working farm.

It appears that a popular Asian supermarket in downtown San Jose will soon be moving to make way for another residential high-rise project.

A massive real estate deal in Sunnyvale has brought new hope that the market for commercial office space in Silicon Valley may be starting to rebound after it was totally flipped upside down because of the work from home movement during the pandemic.

The town of Los Gatos could experience tremendous population growth over the next 20 years if the updated draft of the city’s updated 2040 General Plan becomes a reality.

Several large-scale projects that will change the skyline of downtown San Jose are in the planning stages right now, and another one just submitted documents to the city this week on a site familiar to many.

This Silicon Valley real estate is a modern, Japanese farmhouse-inspired palace. It is a unique piece of property in Atherton - the most coveted of locations.

Another tech giant looks to be setting up shop in the heart of the South Bay, and may be signaling a larger post-pandemic return to the office than was originally anticipated.

Plans for hundreds of new, affordable housing units in the eastern part of downtown San Jose are now being pushed forward by the Santa Clara County Housing Authority.

The skyline of San Jose will be getting a shiny, new addition in the coming years after the San Jose City Council gave final approval to the project on June 30th. The pair of 20-story glass office towers will be built on a three-acre site at 276 Woz Way, just northeast of the Interstate 280/Highway 87 interchange.

The town went after the property, calling it an "eyesore." Owner (and former SF newspaper owner) Florence Fang hit back with claims of discrimination. Now they've settled – and the Flintstones can stay.

Real estate in San Francisco and San Jose ranked as the nation's top in terms highest share of million-dollar homes, according to a new report. Roughly half of San Jose's owner-occupied, single-family properties were valued over $1 million, per LendingTree.

Plans were revealed last April to demolish the giant, temple-shaped Fry's superstore — which at the time was not yet closed — and replace it with a campus of seven 135-foot tall office buildings.

San Jose City Government bought the historic Hayes Mansion for $2.5 million in 1985. It proceeded to amass a staggering $60 million debt associated with the real estate. This year, the last of the debt will be cleared, even adding $2.3 million to San Jose's general fund.

Google/Alphabet has announced plans to return to "campus-focused" employment, and may serve as an example of the "hybrid-approach" of returning to the office.

Environmental groups and neighbors are objecting to the construction of a large residence on a hillside overlooking Morgan Hill, saying it violates rules guarding the area's ridgelines from development and protecting rare native plants.

In a surprise move, Microsoft has bought some 21 acres of land on the proposed NorthTown mixed-use development site in north San Jose.

Another piece of downtown San Jose’s revitalization puzzle has gotten the green light. A large, new housing development called ‘Madera @ Downtown West’ hopped over a major hurdle this week when the San Jose Planning Department gave the project final approval.

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A historic 1920s movie theater in San Jose, which most recently screened Indian movies and whose long history spanned from silent pictures to adult films, likely will show movies no longer.

Something new called "The Energy Hub" is in the works that could dramatically transform the skyline of downtown San Jose.

Bay Area developer Jemcor Development Partners is looking at the site of shuttered South San Jose restaurant The Fish Market as its location for a large new housing project that would be 100% affordable.

The coronavirus pandemic has made working from home commonplace for hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area, which means the demand for office space has plummeted over the past year.

One of the biggest, most ambitious development projects in the history of downtown San Jose, known as Downtown West, continues to make headlines.