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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.

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.

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.

Reading Time: 3 minutesBrookfield Is Leaving DC Office. Here’s What The Buyers Are Doing That Brookfield Wasn’t.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.