Office
The most disrupted CRE sector of the decade. Trophy outperforms, commodity underperforms, and the basis at which capital re-enters Class B will define the next cycle.
Office at a glance
The office sector continues to navigate a complex landscape shaped by evolving work patterns and shifting tenant demands. While some markets exhibit resilience, others face challenges related to vacancy rates and tenant retention, prompting a reevaluation of space utilization strategies. Lenders remain cautious, with a selective approach to financing, reflecting broader economic uncertainties and the need for adaptive reuse of existing assets. Allocators are increasingly discerning, favoring opportunities that align with long-term trends in hybrid work and sustainability, while remaining vigilant about potential risks in the broader economic environment.
- New York9
- San Francisco6
- Washington3
- Chicago2
- Seattle1
- Denver1
Items added to the wire per week · last 12 weeks
- Costa Rica Office Vacancy Could Hit 27% by 2030 as Multinationals Cut JobsThe Tico Times · Oct 18
- UAE Business: JLL named exclusive office leasing partner for 12-storey DIFC towerGDNOnline · Oct 17
- Expert DOJO and Harlem Junior Tennis & Education Program Rally Family Offices and Investors at Pre-US Open Pro-Am in New York
Expert DOJO, a global venture capital and emerging markets investor, and the Harlem Junior Tennis & Education Program (HJTEP) brought together more than 200 family office leaders, investors, tennis icons, and communit…
PR Newswire · Oct 17 - Greenberg Traurig's Michael J. Bonner Honored by Las Vegas Regional Economic Partnership
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael J. Bonner, co-managing shareholder of the Las Vegas office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, was presented with the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Las V…
PR Newswire · Oct 16 - TMG, KKR Acquire San Jose’s Skyport Plaza from Hudson Pacific
TMG Partners has acquired Skyport Plaza, a 435,000-square-foot office and retail complex located at 1650 Technology Dr., 1700 Technology Dr., 50 Skyport Dr. and 90 Skyport Dr. in San Jose. TMG Partners acquired the as…
Connect CRE · Oct 16 - Ross Stores Leases 115K SF for West Coast Merchandising Hub
Ross Stores, Inc. has signed an approximately 115,000-square-foot office lease at ROW DTLA, relocating from Downtown’s CBD. The lease will encompass approximately 110,000 square feet of creative office and 5,000 squar…
Connect CRE · Oct 16
News Wire — Office
Full wire →UAE Business: JLL named exclusive office leasing partner for 12-storey DIFC tower
Expert DOJO and Harlem Junior Tennis & Education Program Rally Family Offices and Investors at Pre-US Open Pro-Am in New York
Expert DOJO, a global venture capital and emerging markets investor, and the Harlem Junior Tennis & Education Program (HJTEP) brought together more than 200 family office leaders, investors, tennis icons, and communit…
Greenberg Traurig's Michael J. Bonner Honored by Las Vegas Regional Economic Partnership
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael J. Bonner, co-managing shareholder of the Las Vegas office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, was presented with the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Las V…
TMG, KKR Acquire San Jose’s Skyport Plaza from Hudson Pacific
TMG Partners has acquired Skyport Plaza, a 435,000-square-foot office and retail complex located at 1650 Technology Dr., 1700 Technology Dr., 50 Skyport Dr. and 90 Skyport Dr. in San Jose. TMG Partners acquired the as…
Ross Stores Leases 115K SF for West Coast Merchandising Hub
Ross Stores, Inc. has signed an approximately 115,000-square-foot office lease at ROW DTLA, relocating from Downtown’s CBD. The lease will encompass approximately 110,000 square feet of creative office and 5,000 squar…
Appian Investments pays $22 million for Renaissance Plaza office building in downtown Greensboro
10-Building Chandler Office Campus Trades for $30.5M
CBRE arranged the $30.5 million sale of Chandler Center Commons, a 120,516-square-foot, 10-building office campus at 5500-5590 West Chandler Blvd., in Chandler, Arizona. CBRE’s Geoffrey Turbow represented the seller,…
Commercial real estate listings: 24,000-square-foot office building bought for $3.6 million
National Real Estate Advisors Opens Office-to-Residential Conversion Project in D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Real Estate Advisors has opened Aviator House, an office-to-residential adaptive reuse development located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The former Air Line Pilots A…
Commercial real estate lobby warns Healey against £1bn London office tax
Limited Fort Lauderdale Office Deliveries Tighten Market
Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI) published its fourth quarter 2026 Fort Lauderdale Office Market Report . Deliveries are down, vacancy rates are falling, and rents are up, all good signs for Fort Lauderdale office inves…
Walker & Dunlop Arranges $216M Loan for Refinancing of Manhattan Office, Retail Building
NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $216 million bridge loan for the refinancing of 568 Broadway, a 390,745-square-foot office and retail building in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. The 12-story building’s r…
Netflix Studios Extends Nearly 10K-SF Lease at 817 Broadway
A major streaming platform has renewed its office space just south of Manhattan’s Union Square , Commercial Observer has learned. Netflix Studios extended its lease spanning 9,943 square feet at Taconic Partners ’ 817…
BXP Sells 11% Stake in 343 Madison Avenue Office Tower to AVRS Partners
BXP , the largest Class A office owner in the country, has sold a 10.6 percent stake in 343 Madison Avenue , a planned 46-story, 930,000-square-foot office development in Midtown Manhattan, to AVRS Partners , in a pro…
TMG Partners, KKR Buy Vacant 435K SQFT Skyport Plaza in San Jose for $75.5MM, Sign 30-Year Lease with Santa Clara County
Two empty office towers in North San Jose formerly occupied by Qualcomm have found a buyer and a tenant at the same time. A developer bought the property for about half the average price of Silicon Valley office sales…
HarbourVest Partners Signs 19,752 SF Office Lease in Midtown Manhattan
NEW YORK CITY — HarbourVest Partners has signed a 19,752-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The Boston-based private equity firm is taking space on the 49th floor of 9 West 57th Street via a 10-year lease.…
OUE REIT to acquire $570m stake in Sydney office tower
Brannan Street Becomes San Francisco’s Big-Deal Hub as SOMA Leads Q3 With 484,000 SQFT Absorbed
With three of the third quarter's six leases of 100,000 square feet or more landing in South of Market, San Francisco's biggest office deals are shifting away from the South Financial District, with South of Market le…
Brex and Cognition Trade 41,000 SQFT of Starter Space for 380,000 SQFT in SOMA, Testing San Francisco’s Startup Pipeline
As fast-growing AI and tech companies jump from 16,000- and 25,000-square-foot suites into full SOMA buildings, CBRE's Q3 2026 San Francisco office report shows nearly half of the city's 8.4 million square feet of ten…
San Francisco Posts Nation’s Fastest Office Visit Growth at 12.2% as AI Boom Pulls Workers Back
San Francisco office buildings drew 12.2 percent more visits in September than a year earlier, the fastest annual gain of any major U.S. market in Placer.ai's latest office index, as an AI-driven leasing surge helped…
Palo Alto Class B Office Trades Top $500 Per SQFT Even as Submarket Vacancy Barely Moves
Palo Alto's office vacancy improved just 10 basis points over the past year, trailing neighboring submarkets, yet institutional buyers frequently paid more than $500 per square foot for Class B buildings there, accord…
Could your lead-gen and referral practices face FTC scrutiny? Senators want a closer look
Letter cites lead gen referrals, mortgage steering, and office exclusive listings as affordability pressures
JLL appointed exclusive office leasing partner for 12-storey office tower at Water Gardens in DIFC
Spanish billionaire and Zara founder Amancio Ortega buys $550 million Chicago office tower
Cushman & Wakefield adds three to Chicago office leasing and capital markets teams
Downtown Seattle records leasing gains for first time since 2021
AmTrust advances 70-storey London office tower plan
Chennai Office Leasing Gets a Major Boost from Cognizant Deal
Mirvac tops out its $600m tower at 55 Pitt Street Sydney
Denver Report Charts Downtown Reinvention Amid Office Vacancy
Downtown St. Louis office tower nears completion of $11.6M renovation
Investment Firm Garnett Station Partners Expands to 35K SF at 450 Park Avenue
Garnett Station Partners , a New York-based private equity investment firm and alternative asset manager, is expanding its office footprint in Midtown Manhattan, Commercial Observer has learned. Garnett has signed an…
Hyderabad office leasing records Up by 50% YoY: Knight Frank India
SoHo Office and Retail Property Refinanced Through ACORE Capital
Walker & Dunlop, Inc. has arranged $216 million in bridge financing to refinance 568 Broadway, a mixed-use trophy asset located in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. The Walker & Dunlop Capital Markets Institutional Advis…
BridgeCity Lends $84M on Midtown East Office-to-Resi Conversion
CSC Real Estate has landed $83.5 million of acquisition and construction financing to reposition a Midtown East office property into luxury apartments, Commercial Observer has learned. BridgeCity Capital provided the…
AI Platform Fuel Cycle Takes Office Space at GFP’s 630 Ninth Avenue
GFP Real Estate ’s 630 Ninth Avenue has a new office tenant. Fuel Cycle , an artificial intelligence-powered platform that helps businesses gather consumer insights and conduct market research, has signed a new lease…
CBRE: Hybrid Work Can Mean Hidden Risks for Office Incentives
Hybrid work might be a good strategy for some companies. It keeps employees happy, which can lead to better retention rates. However, a recent CBRE report said that the rapid adoption of the hybrid work model also mea…
Texas People & Companies, October 16, 2026
Chris Grabinski has joined Stockdale Capital Partners as Vice President of Acquisitions, Healthcare. Based in Stockdale’s Dallas office, Grabinski will focus on sourcing, underwriting, and executing healthcare real es…
India’s Office Leasing Grows 6% to 60.7 Million Sq Ft in 2026: Savills India
Analysis — Office
All analysis →Everyone Is Talking About Conversions. Fifteen Headlines Named a Number.
A hundred days of trade coverage produced 147 conversion stories. Forty-five of them said which way the building was going. Fifteen carried a figure, and ten of those fifteen were lenders talking.
Archive — Office
Full archive →Laurus Corp. Taps Transwestern to Lease and Manage 36 S. Charles St.
Transwestern has been retained by Laurus Corp. to provide leasing and management services for the 318,684-square-foot 36 S. Charles St. office building in Baltimore's CBD.
Laurus Corporation Acquires Woodlake Centre in Minneapolis, MN
Laurus Corporation announced its first acquisition in the Minneapolis area with the 190,000 sq ft Woodlake Centre, a high profile destination for medical and professional services in Richfield.