East Bay real estate

East Bay real estate

The spat over 1,000 feet of Morrison Canyon Road reflects a question that applies at all levels of government: Do elected officials serve voters broadly or a few wealthy donors? The current issue is whether Fremont controls the road that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors ceded to Christopher George, who has now blocked access with a gate. But it is part of a longer battle that has included the board considering George's request for the land after his company

As an event producer, he knew that each time an awesome event was held at the East San Jose venue, the specter of gentrification creeped in a little more. It was important, he told me, to make sure that events and future development helped the people in the Alum Rock neighborhood instead of pushing them out. He would have been smiling Thursday when construction officially started on the $30 million, 28,000 square-foot cultural hub on Alum Rock Avenue across the street from the Mexican Heritage Plaza.

A fire early Tuesday morning destroyed one of the buildings at the vacant former Pacific Steel Casting complex in West Berkeley. No one was injured, but dramatic video from the scene showed flames shooting out of the large warehouse next to Interstate 80. (KTVU, Berkeley Scanner, Instagram) Hundreds of students and others protested against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at UC Berkeley on Wednesday. (The Daily Californian)

For decades, East San José has been one of our city's most culturally vibrant and resilient neighborhoods. The area has raised generations of civic leaders, served as ground zero for social justice movements and hosted landmark small businesses and local institutions that are directly interwoven with San José's identity. Unfortunately, this area of our city has also historically lacked the level of economic investment it deserves.

A unit built in 1970 has changed hands. The unit in the 3900 block of West Las Positas Boulevard in Pleasanton was sold on Nov. 21, 2025. The purchase price was $1,425,000. The layout of this single-story house includes three bedrooms and two baths. The property occupies a sizable 6,878-square-foot lot.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A spacious unit in the 1800 block of South Terracina Drive in Dublin has a new owner. The property, built in 2015, was sold on Nov. 20, 2025. The purchase price was $2,399,000. This two-story house boasts a generous living space with five bedrooms and three baths. The unit sits on a 5,300-square-foot lot.

Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, through an affiliate, took ownership of the three office towers in a streamlined foreclosure process, according to documents filed on Jan. 20 with the Alameda County Recorder's Office. The unpaid debt for the three office buildings totals $442.1 million, the financial titan's affiliate stated in the filing, which was a deed in lieu of foreclosure, the county records show. The original loan that Deutsche Bank provided to Starwood totaled $364.5 million, Alameda County real estate records show.

"Ninety-five percent of the people in Berkeley disregard the signs, which we have placed to regulate traffic," Fisher continued. "There is no excuse for this when it is considered that the ordinance is the work of the people themselves. From July (1925) to January (1926), there were 522 accidents in this city. In these five persons were killed and 178 injured".

Mold, flooding, and barely functioning heaters have plagued a Berkeley building housing low-income students, and owners are scrambling to sell or find a way to manage $9 million in repairs the apartment complex needs. City inspections confirm tenants' complaints that living in Evans Manor, owned by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, the largest student housing cooperative nationwide, presents a host of health concerns.

The foreclosure proceeding forced Academy West Investments to lose its ownership of the property, which the real estate firm had bought in 2020 for $34 million. In 2023, Terra Property Trust provided the Academy West affiliate with a loan for the University Park apartments that totaled $28.3 million, the county property files show. This means the foreclosure value was 26.5% below what the prior owner had paid for the property.

Plans for an eight-story apartment building are taking shape in the East Whisman area of Mountain View, a part of the city that is better known for office buildings and surface parking lots than high-density housing. The applicant, Jeffrey Stone of WTA Middlefield, is proposing to build a 460-unit apartment complex with nearly 9,400 square feet of ground floor retail at 490 E. Middlefield Road, replacing a two-story office building. Currently, the site is surrounded by other office buildings, but more residential growth is planned for the East Whisman area, including a massive development down the street at 675 and 685 E. Middlefield Road.

The spacious property in the 3100 block of Vittoria Loop in Dublin was sold on Nov. 14, 2025. The purchase price was $1,300,000. The unit was built in 2014. The layout of this three-story home includes three bedrooms and three baths. The unit sits on a 2,286-square-foot lot. This article was generated by the Bay Area Home Report Bot, software that analyzes home sales or other data and creates an article based on a template created by humans.

Grocery Outlet appears to be opening a new store on a prominent corner of Oakland's popular Temescal neighborhood, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle (the Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms). The Emeryville-based discount grocery chain has applied for a liquor license at 5055 Telegraph Ave., according to records at the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

A house in Alamo that sold for $4.6 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Contra Costa County in the past week. The county saw a total of 219 residential real estate sales during the past week, averaging $970,110. The average price per square foot was $550. The prices in the list below include real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of Dec. 15 even if the property may have been sold earlier.

Ellis Partners and Spirit Living Group submitted plans in December for the seven-story, 203-unit building on Claremont Avenue, next to the pink property that used to house The Graduate bar. The apartments would be market-rate, including some memory-care and assisted-living units. "There is very, very, very little senior housing in the East Bay, writ large, especially compared to what the demand is," said Patrick Flynn, senior vice president with San Francisco-based Ellis Partners.

"Today is about more than a funding announcement," Councilmember Peter Ortiz said. "It's about showing what happens when we finally invest in East San Jose."

Berkeley's historic homes have plenty of charms, but knob-and-tube wiring isn't one of them. Modernizing these antiquated electrical systems can add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of home improvement projects, especially HVAC and appliance upgrades. That concern is what led to the creation last November of Mr. Poppy Electric, a Berkeley-based electrical contractor firm founded by longtime friends Tenzin Soepa and Andrei Smith, both Berkeley High School graduates.