Bay Area Lab Sublease Vacancy Falls to 3.7% as Direct Vacancy Climbs, Shifting the Glut to Landlords
Why this matters
Commercial real estate continues to digest a multi-year reset in cost of capital. Transaction velocity is below the 2019-2021 trend but improving, cap rates have stabilized across most stabilized property types, and the bid-ask gap has narrowed materially in the past two quarters. Sponsors with permanent capital and operating platforms have an advantage in the current execution environment. San Diego life sciences vacancy remains the lowest in the major life-science clusters, and multifamily fundamentals continue to be supported by a coastal supply ceiling. The next twelve months will continue to reward underwriting discipline and operational sophistication over balance-sheet aggression.
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Bay Area life science tenants have pulled sublease vacancy down to 3.7 percent even as direct vacancy climbed to 20.1 percent, a pattern Savills also recorded in San Diego and Seattle that leaves landlords holding mos…
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