SANTA ROSA-Guaranty Residential Lending has occupied 3,700 sf here that will serve as the Texas-based company's regional headquarters serving northern California, Nevada and Arizona. It is the first Guaranty office to open in Sonoma County.

SAN FRANCISCO-After experiencing increases in asking rates of between 45% and 80% last year, Cushman & Wakefield predicts that rents in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley markets will have dropped between 13% and 18% by the end of 2001.

SAN FRANCISCO-After experiencing increases in asking rates of between 45% and 80% last year, Cushman & Wakefield predicts that rents in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley markets will have dropped between 13% and 18% by the end of 2001.

OAKLAND-The Port of Oakland ended several months of negotiations with the selection of a development team headed by Ellis Partners of San Francisco to oversee an estimated $200 million expansion of Jack London Square.

SAN FRANCISCO-The addition of a top producer from Cushman & Wakefield's local office as Insignia's new senior managing director underscores the commercial firm's commitment to expanding its operations in the area.

OAKLAND-The new company, tentatively named Terravid Management Co., reportedly includes a Mill Valley restaurateur, the founder of Terranomics Development company and a former Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. executive and chef.

OAKLAND-The privately held company also has formed a strategic alliance with Chicago-based Cohen Financial aimed at producing more than $5 billion in commercial loans over the next five and one-half years.

SAN FRANCISCO-Golden Gate Performing Arts, which runs the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, signed a two-year lease for about 1,000 sf at the 18th Street address after the 4,300 sf it had been subleasing from Bank of America became unavailable.