The Most Expensive Empty Building in America Finally Woke Up
Reading Time: 3 minutesGoogle signed a full-building lease on Austin’s Sail Tower in 2019. All 804,000 square feet of…
Aug 16, 2026
Greg Gomer is a Boston-based entrepreneur and Co-founder and CCO at HqO. Since co-founding HqO in 2018, Greg has been at the forefront of the industry's shift from asset management to relationship management, building the case that the landlords who invest in understanding their tenants will outcompete those who don't.
Greg is deeply embedded in the technology community, serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Babson College, mentor at Techstars, and former advisor to Flybridge Capital Partners. His work has been published in the WSJ, Fortune, Inc, TechCrunch, NBC, NPR, and The Boston Globe. He holds a BS in Entrepreneurship from Babson College.
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The Building Is Falling Apart. The Rent Is at a Record.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA half-floor unit on the 94th floor of 432 Park Avenue sold this month for $22…
Aug 12, 2026
The Office Market Just Beat 2019. Your Building Might Not Have.
Reading Time: 3 minutesU.S. occupiers leased 127.3 million square feet in the first half of 2026. Strongest first half…
Aug 9, 2026
Everyone in CRE Is Using AI. Almost No One Trusts It.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCommercial real estate adopted AI faster than anyone predicted. Lease abstraction, underwriting support, market analysis, document…
Aug 5, 2026
The Best Building Demo of 2026 Was a Soccer Stadium
Reading Time: 3 minutesSix million fans walked into 16 stadiums this summer with no paper ticket, no badge, and…
Aug 2, 2026
WeWork Is 90% Full. The Ten-Year Future Isn’t.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWeWork locations are running 88 to 92% occupancy. The company that became a business school case…
Jul 29, 2026
Law Firms Came Back. Hollywood Didn’t. The Difference Is the Floor Plan.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOffice vacancy tightened in more than half of major U.S. markets in the second quarter. Los…
Jul 28, 2026
The Million-Dollar Rooftop: Your Building’s Most Underpriced Asset Is Its Empty Hours.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome landlords are making a million dollars a year on space they never leased.
Jul 27, 2026
New York Froze $10 Billion of Data Centers. Office Landlords Just Lost Their Favorite Excuse.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Tuesday, Governor Hochul signed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers.
Jul 24, 2026
AI Won’t Fix How CRE Makes Decisions. It’s Going to Expose It.
Reading Time: 3 minutes88% of commercial real estate investors and owners have started AI pilots, per JLL’s global technology survey of more than 1,500 senior decision-makers.
Jul 23, 2026
Law Firms Are Signing Record Leases and Cutting Desk Space. Both Things Are the Point.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal office leasing is running 46% above its pre-pandemic average. Tech leasing, the sector everyone spent a decade designing offices around, is down 8% against the same baseline.
Jul 9, 2026
Brooklyn Just Deleted 336,000 Square Feet of Office. It Was the Right Call.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe biggest development in Brooklyn just erased its office component entirely. Cirrus Real Estate Partners and LCOR presented a revised plan for Atlantic Yards Phase II this week.
Jul 6, 2026
Brookfield Is Leaving DC Office. Here’s What The Buyers Are Doing That Brookfield Wasn’t.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBrookfield Is Leaving DC Office. Here’s What The Buyers Are Doing That Brookfield Wasn’t.
Jul 3, 2026
The Recovery Is Real. It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew York’s office market is having its best year since the pandemic. Vacancies are tightening, sublease space is shrinking, rents are inching up, and return-to-office is running ahead of every other major U.S. city.
Jul 2, 2026
The Skills AI Can’t Replace Are Exactly What Your Building Needs to Provide
Reading Time: 3 minutesGraduation unemployment for 22-to-27-year-olds just hit its highest rate since the Global Financial Crisis. Not a great time to be entering the workforce.
Jun 18, 2026
