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The REX Effect: How Brookfield Repositioned 660 Fifth Avenue Into Manhattan’s Premier Class A Destination

Reading Time: 7 minutesBrookfield Properties’ $400M renovation transformed 666 Fifth Avenue into fully-leased 660 Fifth—commanding $135/SF rents.

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What Is Tenant Health — and Why It Is the Most Important Number in Your Portfolio

Reading Time: 4 minutesTenant Health is the leading indicator your portfolio has been missing. Here’s what it measures, why it matters, and how the best operators are using it.

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.

The Numbers Behind Tenant Churn

Reading Time: 3 minutesMost CRE portfolios don’t measure tenant churn until it’s already happened. Here’s what the research says about why tenants leave and when the signals appear.

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.

Why London’s Trophy Office Market Is the World’s Best Case Study in Experience-Led Retention

Reading Time: 3 minutesLondon’s West End and City landlords are using experience infrastructure to defend rental premiums and drive renewals. Here’s what the rest of the world should learn from them.

Why Experiential Real Estate Delivers Real Returns

Reading Time: 3 minutesExperiential real estate isn’t just a design trend. The buildings investing in experience infrastructure are posting measurable gains in retention, NOI, and renewal rates.

Friday Isn’t the Office’s Problem – Monday Is

Reading Time: 4 minutesPeople aren’t going in to eat lunch or hang out. They’re going in to meet, collaborate, and use the parts of the building they can’t replicate at home.

Why EMEA’s Top Landlords Are Winning on Experience, Not Location

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn London, Paris, and Amsterdam, the Experience Gap is widening fast. The landlords closing it aren’t waiting on the market.

Ten Percent of Office Buildings Are Carrying 60% of the Vacancy

Reading Time: 4 minutesJLL just published its Q1 2026 U.S. Office Market Dynamics report. One number buried on page six tells you more about the state of office than everything else in the document combined.