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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 Market Isn’t Shrinking. It’s Sorting.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe State of REX 2026 is here. See the data behind CRE’s experience-led divide, and what the operators pulling away are doing differently.

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AI Is the Office Market’s Best Tenant and Its Biggest Long-Term Problem.

Reading Time: 4 minutesTech firms leased 11.5 million square feet of office space in Q1 2026. A decade-high 23% of all U.S. leasing activity, according to CBRE.

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Debt Is Cheap. Conviction Is the Scarce Resource.

Reading Time: 3 minutesJLL published new data yesterday. Its Global Credit Intensity Rating hit all-time highs. Lenders are fighting to put money to work in commercial real estate.

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New Tenants Are Back. What the Data Says They’re Actually Coming For.

Reading Time: 3 minutesPiedmont REIT announced on June 1 that it had signed 240,000 square feet of new leases in the second quarter through that date.

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AI Isn’t Killing Commercial Real Estate. It’s the Most Disruptive Landlord It’s Ever Had.

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn mid-May, Meta cut 8,000 employees. In the same earnings call, the company raised its 2026 data center spending forecast to $125-145 billion. Up 8 percent from its prior estimate.

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The Office Is Back. The Strategy Isn’t.

Reading Time: 3 minutesOffice utilization hit 53% in 2026. That’s up from 38% a year ago and 35% the year before. CBRE’s 2026 Global Workplace and Occupancy Insights found that the #1 reason employees show up is to collaborate with colleagues.

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The Institutions Are Back in Office. What They’re Actually Buying.

Reading Time: 3 minutesOffice investment sales hit $20.5 billion in the first quarter of 2026. That’s up 38.6% from the same quarter last year, per Avison Young’s latest report.

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The Office Isn’t Back. The Meeting Room Is.

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew research from OfficeSpace Software covers 954 organizations, 3.9 million in-office employees, and 116 million square feet of office.

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Extend And Pretend Is Ending. The Buildings That Survive Won’t Be The Ones The Lenders Saved.

Reading Time: 3 minutesPropmodo ran a piece this week called “The End of Extend and Pretend.” It’s the cleanest framing I’ve seen on what’s about to happen.

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Durst Is Spending Tens Of Millions On A Midtown Office Reposition. Zero Of It Is Going To A New Gym.

Reading Time: 3 minutesDurst Organization just put 600,000 square feet on the market at 114 West 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan. A 26-story, LEED Gold tower built in 1989.

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Cushman Just Quantified It. AI Is Going To Add 330 Million Square Feet Of CRE Demand. The Room Mix Inside Those Buildings Already Flipped

Reading Time: 3 minutesCushman & Wakefield dropped a report this month that should end the “AI is going to gut office demand” trade for good.

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Hudson Pacific’s Q1 Was The Whole 2026 Office Story In One Earnings Report.

Reading Time: 3 minutesHudson Pacific Properties reported Q1 2026 results on Wednesday. The headline numbers were straightforwardly good.

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Office Leasing Just Hit a Decade High. The Buildings Getting Leased Aren’t Built for the Demand.

Reading Time: 3 minutesBisnow dropped the headline of the year this week. U.S. office tenants signed roughly 120 million square feet of new leases in Q1 2026. Up 25% over Q1 2025.

Bottom-Decile Office Isn’t Coming Back. Conversion Is The Honest Answer. Cleveland’s Been Showing The Math For A Decade.

Reading Time: 3 minutes6.6 million square feet of office space converted. Almost 4,000 housing units delivered. Another 1,500 in the pipeline. Roughly 30 landmark buildings repurposed.

AI Was Supposed to Empty the Office. The Heaviest Users Are Coming In Most.

Reading Time: 3 minutesGensler’s 2026 Global Workplace Survey landed last week. 30% of office workers are now AI power users, meaning they use AI tools at home and at work.

The REX Effect: How LBA Realty Closed the Experience Gap at One Culver

Reading Time: 5 minutesHow LBA transformed Sony’s vacant headquarters into Silicon Beach’s most sustainable creative campus—and proved that sustainability and experience are the same infrastructure

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Why the Farringdon neighbourhood is a top place to work in London

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNestled in the heart of London, the Farringdon neighbourhood stands…

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HqO Helps Global Firm Transform Its Real Estate Experience

Reading Time: 2 minutesHines, the global real estate investment, development, and property management…

Transform your Real Estate Experience with HqO’s New REX Platform

Reading Time: < 1 minute  The world has dramatically changed over the last few…