Zain Jaffer is the San Francisco Bay area-based CEO and founder of Zain Ventures that invests globally in start-ups, real estate, stocks, fixed-income, hedge funds and private equity.

While the office vacancy rate in downtown San Jose was 31.5% in the second quarter, office vacancies totaled 19.5% in Silicon Valley overall. Related Articles Bay Area developer helps Valero ...

The area’s three largest cities set all-time highs for vacancy rates in the downtown districts during the second quarter, with San Francisco at 36.8 percent, Oakland at 31.8 and San Jose at 31.5.

The amount of empty office space in the Denver area keeps climbing. The vacancy rate edged up in the second quarter to about 24 percent, according to a new report from real estate services firm CBRE.

Throughout the Bay Area, 94.9 million square feet of offices were vacant by mid-year, with an expected lost rent value of $5.35 billion. Oakland and the East Bay ranked 16th, with 17.7 million ...

More than a quarter of D-FW office space is empty and vacancies are still ... Only about 62% of Dallas-area office employees are back in their buildings — and that’s only on the highest ...

Here's how office vacancies are affecting the Seattle area's CRE scene. Currently, several metros have at least $1 billion worth of vacant office space. Puget Sound Business Journal ...

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser launches 'Office to Anything' program to revitalize empty office spaces with a 15-year tax freeze. Boosts commercial, hotel, and retail activities.

In many cases, migration patterns suddenly create a mass of new people who will need housing, but the area lacks enough housing units. When the pandemic came, the shortage became exacerbated.