The Bay Area was largely left out of the surge in build-to-rent single-family houses that has swept across the nation in recent years, as thousands of BTR units were built across the Sunbelt, from Atlanta to Dallas to Phoenix.

A transit-oriented project that will rise in Solano County is about to change that, and no, it's not the new city that a bunch of Silicon Valley billionaires have proposed to build in the eastern part of the county, which sits between San Francisco and Sacramento.

Republic Urban Properties is planning to build the largest build-to-rent development in the Bay Area, 400 single-family homes that will rise on 19 acres in Fairfield near the Capitol Corridor train station.

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