South Bay workplace towers are purchased for a lot lower than their prior worth

CAMPBELL — The long-lasting Pruneyard workplace towers in Campbell have been purchased at an enormous low cost to their prior worth, recent proof of a weak Bay Space business actual property market.

PSAI Realty Companions, performing by an affiliate, paid $54 million for the three-tower advanced, in accordance with paperwork filed on Feb. 28 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Workplace.

Pruneyard Towers places of work in Campbell, elevated view. (Google Maps)

The shopping for group purchased the workplace advanced, a South Bay landmark that’s that’s perched subsequent to State Route 17, by an all-cash deal.

The workplace advanced, which is at 1901 South Bascom Avenue in Campbell, totals 365,000 sq. ft.

The deal means that property values proceed to plummet for workplace buildings all through the Bay Space, even high-profile towers within the area such because the Pruneyard workplace advanced.

PSAI Realty paid a value that may be a jaw-dropping 65% lower than the $154.8 million estimated worth of the workplace advanced that the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Workplace calculated as of January 2024.

The $54 million that PSAI Realty plunked down can also be 62% lower than the $141.5 million value for the workplace advanced in 2019. That buy six years in the past made Oaktree Capital Companions a majority investor within the property in an alliance with Ellis Companions, a veteran actual property agency based mostly in San Francisco.

Put one other manner, the Pruneyard Towers workplace advanced’s worth is now about one-third of what it was in recent times.

The nosedive within the property’s worth is one other indicator of the financial fallout from the coronavirus-linked enterprise shutdowns that the state authorities mandated in 2020.

The lockdowns could be over, however workers are returning to the workplace in a halting and uneven vogue.

Pruneyard Tower One is eighteen tales and totals 119,000 sq. ft; the single-story Tower Two is  119,000 sq. ft; and Pruneyard Place is six tales excessive with 127,000 sq. ft.

At one level, Campbell metropolis officers had permitted a fourth tower on the positioning, a five-story construction that may have totaled 100,000 sq. ft.

The Bay Space’s brutal workplace market circumstances have erased the viability of a giant new workplace constructing.

Sky-high emptiness ranges and slumping rents now hang-out the Bay Space workplace sector.

The rocky market circumstances have additionally eroded the values of workplace buildings all through the area, unleashing an outbreak of foreclosures on account of delinquent loans.

PSAI Realty Companions was based in 1992 as Peter Sullivan Associates. The corporate is an lively investor in properties all through the Bay Space.