Category: Trends
Category: Trends
Commercial property owners have found a way to increase office building sustainability while providing an experience for tenants that’s both entertaining, educational, and environmentally friendly.
Urban apiaries—yes, urban beehives—are popping up on office building rooftops across the country, and are creating quite a buzz (no pun intended).
While COVID-19 variables may cast doubt on office work alternatives, values point to many strong returns.
Walkability has become an increasingly important strategy for businesses and employers. Prior to COVID-19 restrictions, these “live, work, play” destinations were rising in demand and commanding a premium that companies and individuals/families are willing to pay.
For the first time an end to the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight. The daily case count has fallen substantially as more and more people have gotten the vaccine and there’s much talk about returning to “normal.” For millions of workers that means going back to downtown business centers and suburban office parks but make no mistake: the pandemic has left its mark, the new “normal” will be very different from the old one.
Earlier this summer, the government announced a multi-faceted initiative for new building codes designed to modernize commercial and residential infrastructure for disaster resilience and energy conservation. The National Initiative to Advance Building Codes is part of an ambitious approach to dealing with climate change. Here are a few insights on the initiative and the impact that modernized building codes have on commercial real estate (CRE).
The transformation of retail has given the already-stout industrial sector an added boost, but with economic headwinds in the forecast, will industrial players soon have to say “so long” to “so good”?
Millions of Americans move each year, but in the post-pandemic era something has changed: the workplace has evolved, and with change there are now new opportunities for both organizations and employees. One result is that people are in motion, moving from one metro area to another, often in search of a better work-life balance. In fact, Redfin reports that in the second quarter more than 30 percent of its website users searched in different metro areas.
It looks like 2021 will be another big year for Texas, a year when a lot of major companies will make the jump and move to the Lone Star state. Just look at these transitions:
Although the apartment sector leads its office counterpart, their common drivers — sprinkled with some southern charm — could amount to a rising tide that will lift all commercial real estate boats.
There’s little doubt that COVID-19 has changed the future of commercial real estate. As the pandemic ebbs, we’re now left with the question of how best to satisfy the needs of a newly emerging marketplace. One answer is to take a fresh look at amenities, the happy office features central to employee acquisition and retention.
