The commercial condos sit below 100 residential condos, half of them whole ownership and half of them fractional ownership. The seller was the developer, R.C. Chronicle Building LP, a partnership that includes the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC and Hunter Group. The new owners are local high-net-worth individuals Che Chen Liu and Shu Fin Liu, for whom the investment completed a 1031 exchange.

CB Richard Ellis brokers Don LeBuhn, Trevor Thorpe, and Kevin Kovar represented the seller in partnership with Nora Vigil and Melanie Guevara of Verde Pacific. Kevin Colombo and Dean Copans of RetailWest represented the buyers.

A representative of the new ownership tells GlobeSt.com in an email that the original asking price for the retail condos was $11. 5 million and that the purchase price represents a cap rate of "just under" 8%. The nearby Union Square building anchored by Joe's Jeans sold at a cap rate in the 7% range earlier this year and a retail condo leased to Lululemon Athletica sold late last year at a 6.6% cap, according to the local brokerage sources.