{"id":343167,"date":"2026-06-02T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343167\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:26:52","slug":"flow-enters-west-coast-with-175m-san-jose-multifamily-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343167\/","title":{"rendered":"Flow Enters West Coast With $175M San Jose Multifamily Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/placeholder.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n      The Fay apartments at 10 Reed St. in San Jose\n    <\/p>\n<p id=\"docs-internal-guid-b4e2f9fc-7fff-9f38-16a9-573ebf7dc9ea\" dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"tag tag-115158\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/flow\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"115158\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flow<\/a>, a residential real estate and property management company launched in 2022 by <a class=\"tag tag-4760\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/wework\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"4760\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WeWork<\/a>\u00a0co-founder <a class=\"tag tag-34145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/adam-neumann\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"34145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adam Neumann<\/a>, purchased The Fay apartment building in San Jose for $175M.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first West Coast acquisition for Flow, which also has property in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 336-unit, 23-story high-rise at Reed and Market streets was about 60% vacant at the time of the acquisition, which was made through a JV with ASJ Development, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanjose\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/flow-the-fay-san-jose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Silicon Valley Business Journal reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flow intends to rebrand The Fay\u00a0and activate vacant ground-floor retail on East Reed and South First Street. In January, an affiliate of <a class=\"tag tag-33569\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/madison-realty-capital\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"33569\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Madison Realty Capital<\/a> of New York City took possession of The Fay after the asset slipped into foreclosure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/28\/san-jose-home-build-economy-loan-apartment-develop-property-real-estate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Mercury News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the property was valued at $110M, down sharply from the $182.5M construction loan Madison Realty Capital provided to The Fay developer <a class=\"tag tag-168137\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/scape\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"168137\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scape<\/a> and its residential arm, Morro.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the building went into foreclosure, the city of San Jose announced a plan to master-lease 197 one- and two-bedroom units at The Fay to boost the city\u2019s supply of subsidized moderate-income housing for public sector employees and residents making between 80% and 110% of the area median income.<\/p>\n<p>The lease deal with ASJ Development, a subsidiary of Vancouver, British Columbia&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-34223\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/westbank\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"34223\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Westbank Corp<\/a>.,\u00a0was for five years with two five-year options.<\/p>\n<p>With its limited land and high home prices, San Jose is one of the tightest housing markets in the U.S. Developers are expected to increase the city\u2019s apartment inventory by a mere 0.3% in 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcusmillichap.com\/-\/media\/Files\/MM\/Research%20Reports\/Market%20Reports\/2026\/2026%20Multifamily%20Market%20Reports\/San_Jose%20Multifamily%20Market%20Report%20pdf.pdf?rev=789d6bec339c4921a224d4004566e699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to Marcus &amp; Millichap<\/a>. Class-A multifamily properties in the city had 4.8% vacancy, with average rents of $4,335 per month, <a class=\"tag tag-4536\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/institutional-property-advisors\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"4536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Institutional Property Advisors<\/a> said in a first-quarter market report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fay apartments at 10 Reed St. in San Jose Flow, a residential real estate and property management&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[141211,50843,88,90,141212,89,141213],"class_list":["post-343167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-adam-neumann","tag-flow","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-multifamily","tag-san-jose-news","tag-silicon-valley-multifamily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}