{"id":497279,"date":"2026-10-15T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497279\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:34:09","slug":"waterfront-oakland-apartment-complex-is-foreclosed-as-market-wobbles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497279\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfront Oakland apartment complex is foreclosed as market wobbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 Portico Waterfront in Oakland\u2019s Brooklyn Basin neighborhood is now owned by an affiliate of Essex Property Trust, which gained control of the housing property on Oct. 7 through a speedy foreclosure proceeding, Alameda County files show.<\/p>\n<p>Cityview, the original developer of the 378-unit apartment complex that sits on a scenic stretch of the Oakland waterfront, lost ownership of the property.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction placed a value of $70.4 million on the apartment hub, documents filed on Oct. 7 with the Alameda County Recorder\u2019s Office show.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 58.1% below the assessed value of $168.2 million for the property, as per a January estimate produced by Alameda County.<\/p>\n<p>San Mateo-based Essex Property Trust put itself in position to foreclose on the loan by purchasing the financing instrument from original lender Bank OZK, county documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Loan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/05\/oakland-home-economy-loan-apartment-house-build-property-real-estate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delinquencies and foreclosures<\/a> have jolted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/15\/oakland-home-build-real-estate-property-economy-apartment-house-loan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">growing number of apartment properties<\/a> in Oakland, primarily downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2026\/04\/09\/home-oakland-build-loan-economy-property-real-estate-house-develop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series of financial setbacks<\/a> in the Oakland apartment market have contributed to flat or falling apartment prices in the East Bay, according to a report for the April-through-June second quarter of 2026 released by commercial real estate firm Marcus &amp; Millichap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe average price per unit continued to decline\u201d in the East Bay during the second quarter, Marcus &amp; Millichap reported.<\/p>\n<p>During 2026, East Bay per-unit average apartment prices were below $280,000. That contrasts with the per-unit prices of $385,000 in the South Bay in 2026, as estimated by Marcus &amp; Millichap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Bird's-eye view of Portico Waterfront, an apartment complex at 37 Eighth Avenue in Oakland's Brooklyn Basin neighborhood. (Essex Property Trust)\" width=\"1200\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792096448_283_SJM-L-OAKAPTSLOAN-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1270165\" \/>Bird&#8217;s-eye view of Portico Waterfront, an apartment complex at 37 Eighth Avenue in Oakland&#8217;s Brooklyn Basin neighborhood. (Essex Property Trust)\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Evening view of Portico Waterfront, an apartment complex at 37 Eighth Avenue in Oakland's Brooklyn Basin neighborhood. (Essex Property Trust)\" width=\"1200\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792096449_844_SJM-L-OAKAPTSLOAN-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1270166\" \/>Evening view of Portico Waterfront, an apartment complex at 37 Eighth Avenue in Oakland&#8217;s Brooklyn Basin neighborhood. (Essex Property Trust)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 Portico Waterfront in Oakland\u2019s Brooklyn Basin neighborhood is now owned by an affiliate of Essex Property&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,387,7,1335,332,383,1337,181,100,143,145,144,388,1970],"class_list":["post-497279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-business","tag-california","tag-development","tag-east-bay","tag-economy","tag-housing-development","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-real-estate","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497279","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=497279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}