Charlie Malet of Shorenstein, which won the Real Estate Deal of the Year in 2011 for its lease with Twitter, stands outside Market Square.

Emily Fancher
Senior Editor- San Francisco Business Times

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Which Bay Area real estate deals and projects caught your eye in 2012? Any memorable, bold office purchases? How about a huge, complex lease transaction or a beautifully designed medical research building?

The San Francisco Business Times is asking the real estate community to nominate the biggest, best and most complex deals and projects of 2012 for our annual Real Estate Deals of the Year Awards. Projects and deals throughout the Bay Area are eligible to win.

The categories include housing, office, retail, RD, health, renovation, hotel, restaurant, public/cultural, infrastructure and industrial. The paper will feature the winners in a special publication to be published March 22, 2013, and at an awards gala in March.

Click here to fill out a nomination for the 2012 Real Estate Deals of the Year.

Click here to fill out a nomination for Real Estate Dealmaker of 2012.

The deadline for submitting entries for this year’s competition is 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013.

Questions? Feel free to email me at efancher@bizjournals.com.

Emily Fancher is a senior editor at the San Francisco Business Times.

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This model is known as the Breezehouse. 

Blanca Torres
Reporter- San Francisco Business Times

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Blu Homes is quickly becoming a household name in the Bay Area. The maker of prefabricated homes is targeting Bay Area buyers for their sustainably designed and energy-efficient houses.

Click on the image for a slideshow of Blu Homes units.

“You have a lot of people in the Bay Area who care deeply about technology, who want convenience, who are willing to go online and design something on their own, and who also want a process that is not going to take two years,” said Maura McCarthy, co-founder and vice president of strategy for Blu Homes.

The company makes homes with green building materials and steel framing that use about half the energy of a conventional home.

Now four years after it was founded, Blu Homes is ramping up production at its Vallejo factory and watching its sales climb.

You can read more in the Nov. 23rd edition of the San Francisco Business Times.

Blanca Torres covers East Bay real estate for the San Francisco Business Times.

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The fall in the U.S. housing market in recent years is attracting a new wave of foreign buyers, who are making a dent in the Bay Area and national real estate markets, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Foreign buyers spent $82.5 billion on homes in the U.S. during the 12 months ending in March, an increase of $66.4 billion a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors.

As for the Bay Area, about 6 percent of all property searches by prospective buyers are from abroad, according to the real estate site Trulia.com, with San Francisco being the most-popular search location.

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Jane Duperrault, CEO of Stanford Federal Credit Union.

Chris S. Burns
Researcher- San Francisco Business Times

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The accompanying gallery is an excerpt from this week’s List of Largest Credit Unions in the Bay Area.

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The San Francisco Business Times publishes industry rankings in each issue of the paper and reprints them at the end of the year for our annual Book of Lists. These lists are unique and authoritative sources of Bay Area business news.

To see the full list, check out this week’s issue. Other lists in this week’s issue include Largest Credit Unions in the East Bay and Largest Construction Project on the Peninsula.

Chris S. Burns is a researcher at the San Francisco Business Times.

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