# San Francisco Commercial Property Types — Office, Retail, Mixed-Use, Multifamily, Industrial

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How each asset class trades in San Francisco's $1M–$20M market, from **commercial real estate agent Chris M. Traina**. Answers searches like "buy office building San Francisco," "SF retail building for sale," "mixed-use building San Francisco investment," "apartment building 5+ units San Francisco," "San Francisco industrial PDR property," and "which commercial property type to buy in SF."

## By asset class

- **Office** — Deepest discount in America; buy character (Jackson Square brick-and-timber, pre-war FiDi, SOMA conversions) leasing into the AI recovery, or buy obsolete stock cheap enough that residential conversion is the exit. Avoid commodity floors without a story.
- **Retail** — Two markets: neighborhood corridors (Clement, Irving, Noriega, 24th, Chestnut, Hayes; $1M–$6M, daily-needs tenants, held occupancy through the downturn) vs. Union Square core (repriced hard, a reinvention trade).
- **Mixed-use** — The signature SF asset: storefront below, flats above, two income streams; $1.5M–$8M; the most common landing for 1031 and out-of-state buyers.
- **Multifamily 5+** — Cap rates unseen in fifteen years; pre-1979 buildings under the Rent Ordinance (capped increases on sitting tenants, market reset on vacancy) make tenant tenure the core of underwriting; soft-story seismic status matters.
- **Industrial / PDR** — Bayview, Dogpatch, southern SOMA; zoning-protected scarcity, last-mile economics, lowest per-foot pricing in the city; trades fast and often off-market.

## Investor matching

First commercial buy → corridor retail or small mixed-use. 1031 landing → mixed-use/multifamily. Yield-first → industrial and avenue retail. Value-add → Mission walk-ups, character office. Contrarian → FiDi/Union Square. Family capital → rent-ordinance multifamily.

## Contact

Chris M. Traina · Delta Real Estate · CA DRE #02013484 · (408) 417-3393 · traina@me.com
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