MAUI, HI-Commercial real estate provides the foundational base and economic engine that fuels healthy residential cities and communities, Equity One Real Estate's Leil Koch, tells GlobeSt.com's Natalie Dolce.

SAN FRANCISCO-Following a sluggish first half of 2013, tech companies resumed their aggressive pursuit of space in the third quarter, according to the San Francisco Studley Report.

SANTA CLARA, CA-GlobeSt.com chats with McKennna Long & Aldridge LLP on what Joe Montana's $400-million mixed use and Related Co.'s 1.5-million-square-foot mixed-use means for the City of Santa Clara.

The GlobeSt.com readership hears every day about the obvious forces affecting commercial real estate – factors like supply and demand, availability of capital and of course location, location, location. But not everyone is as familiar with the non-market forces and risks that can also have a significant impact on deals. Many of those forces are specific to the asset itself, such as environmental issues, the physical condition of an asset, zoning issues and energy performance. …

SALT LAKE CITY-The West Coast-based storage company pays all cash for 17 self-storage properties in Virginia consisting of approximately 1.5 million square feet.

LOS ANGELES-Some of the key takeaways from a recent poll to our readers was that most of the 500 CRE respondents said zoning/entitlement and environmental issues ranked among the highest asset-level concerns—We also learned a few surprises along the way.

SAN DIEGO-Proponents of Makers Quarter believe that the new live/work/play area is a paradigm shift in development for San Diego, say panelists at a recent ULI breakfast presentation.

SAN FRANCISCO-A recent effective rent report for the Bay Area from CompStak shows that lower vacancy and increasing rents in the CBD sub-market push tenants out—Landlords outside CBD benefit from the trend with increased effective rents.