U.S. Office Market Starts Year on a Flat Note, Yardi Matrix Reports

Average January listing rate repeated 2019 figure. Urban locales host majority of projects in development

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 28, 2020 – The average U.S. office listing rate was $37.85 per square foot in January 2020, unchanged from the same period last year even as office-using employment continued to outpace overall national employment growth.

A new report from
Yardi® Matrix shows that year-over-year full-service
equivalent listings grew at rates exceeding or approaching 10% in Manhattan,
N.Y., Austin, Texas, and Tampa, Fla. They fell in other markets, however, including
Boston, Chicago and Seattle. Nationwide deliveries of new supply totaled 9.1
million square feet. Another 145.9 million square feet of space remains under
construction, with 70% concentrated in central business districts or urban
submarkets.

Reports of foreign
investors selling U.S. commercial real estate assets could have a large impact
on the office sector this year.

Learn more about office
supply, demand and transactions, plus additional details on Miami, Dallas and
Charlotte, N.C., in the Yardi Matrix national
office report for February
2020.

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