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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 it, 35…

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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 million. It…

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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 since 2019,…

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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 summaries. Then,…

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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 mostly no…

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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 study in…

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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 Angeles went…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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…

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…

Everyone in CRE Is Using AI. Almost No One Trusts It.

Reading Time: 3 minutesCommercial real estate adopted AI faster than anyone predicted. Lease…

The Best Building Demo of 2026 Was a Soccer Stadium

Reading Time: 3 minutesSix million fans walked into 16 stadiums this summer with…

WeWork Is 90% Full. The Ten-Year Future Isn’t.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWeWork locations are running 88 to 92% occupancy. The company…

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….

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.