San francisco Properties News

Fed sees ‘weakened’ Western housing
Fed’s San Francisco unit says Western housing “weakened somewhat” this summer in the 6th version of the “Beige Book” report for 2010. This is a Federal Reserve Board summary on regional economic conditions that’s done eight times a year....

Additional Phase I Clinical Trial Data Related to Omecamtiv Mecarbil to Be Presented at the 2010 Heart Failure Society ...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - September 8, 2010) - Cytokinetics, Incorporated ( NASDAQ : CYTK ) announced today that additional Phase I clinical trial data relating to omecamtiv mecarbil (formerly CK-1827452) is scheduled to be presented as a poster presentation at the 2010 Heart Failure Society of America Annual Meeting, to be held September 12-15, 2010 at the San Diego Convention ...

BioMed Realty Trust Enters Into Agreements to Expand Its San Diego Portfolio by Approximately 30%
BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire five properties, comprised of 14 life science buildings with approximately 405,000 square feet of laboratory and office space, in San Diego's primary life science submarkets of University Towne Centre, Torrey Pines and Sorrento Valley. Â The properties are approximately 92% leased on a weighted ...

Digital Realty Trust to Participate in Investor Conferences in September 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world's largest wholesale datacenter provider, announced today that Company management will be participating in the following investor conferences during the month of September 2010: Bank of America Merrill Lynch Investment Conference taking place September 13-14, 2010 at the Ritz-Carlton in San ...

Callahan Capital Withdraws Planned IPO
Callahan Capital Properties, Inc., a company headed by former Equity Office Properties Trust and Trizec Properties chief executive officer Timothy Callahan, this week became the latest prospective REIT to withdraw or delay plans for an initial public...

Waterton Acquires $109.5 Million of Debt Secured by Four Multifamily Properties Located in North Carolina and California
Waterton Residential recently acquired $109.5 million of debt secured by four prime multifamily properties located in North Carolina and California. So far this year, Waterton has acquired $179.2 million in distressed debt secured by multifamily assets and expects to acquire another $150 million in debt and/or multifamily properties by the end of 2010.

Riverstone Residential Group Awarded Management of Five New Properties in Tucson, Arizona
September 7, 2010 -- Riverstone Residential Group, one of the largest third-party, privately owned apartment managers in the United States was recently awarded contracts on five communities in Tucson, Arizona, by Hamilton Zanze Company, a San Francisco-based multifamily investment firm, in a Joint Venture with Real Estate Capital Partners.Hamilton Zanze recently purchased the Tucson properties...

Investor Hunger for Apt. Properties Still Sharp in Second-Half 2010
Multifamily property in major metro markets remains the asset of choice for many commercial real estate investors, with momentum fueled by a number of large late-summer sales transactions following a solid first half of 2010. Public and private REITs...

GamePro and The Escapist Alliance Changes How Marketers Reach Male Gamers
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GamePro and The Escapist provide online advertisers with joint marketing programs to reach male gamers ages 18 to 34

Proposition N; Real Estate Transfer Tax Increase
: Downtown is out in full-force to defeat Proposition N, which would increase the real estate transfer tax on properties that sell for over $5 million.