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Industry Trends Insights

KBS Talks Strategy as it Celebrates Three Decades in Business: Q&A with Luke Hamagiwa, VP/Asset Manager of the CRE Firm’s Eastern Region

  • May 18, 2022
Luke Hamagiwa serves as the market leader responsible for carrying out investment objectives throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States on behalf of KBS REIT, pension fund and sovereign wealth fund clients. Within these markets, he is responsible for the execution of strategic business plans for each of the assets within his portfolio along with new acquisition opportunities and joint-venture partnerships.
Industry Trends Insights

Green and Clean: The Importance of ESG for the Built Environment

  • May 9, 2022
Owners and investors in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) are working to attract employees back to the office while contending with trends such as hybrid work, competitors who offer work-from-home options, and the Great Resignation. At the same time, employees are hyperaware of their surroundings — with health and safety top of mind.
Industry Trends Insights

Trends in Hybrid Work and Moving to the Flex Office

  • April 19, 2022
There’s no denying that workforce dynamics have spurred workplace transformation and the changing nature of work necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies that might have never entertained remote work managed to shift their entire workforce to working from home within days in many cases.
Industry Trends Insights Strategy

Blend to Win: Is “Phygital” the Future of Retail?

  • April 6, 2022
As the retail sector rebounds from another great disruption, the hybrid approach between physical and digital experiences is gaining steam in the industry.
Industry Trends Insights

The Great Resignation — a CRE Contradiction

  • March 23, 2022
With more than 38 million workers voluntarily quitting their jobs, 2021 was dubbed the year of the “Great Resignation” and “the Big Quit,” and the “Great Retirement.”
Industry Trends Insights

Variables vs. Values: Is a Return to Office Inevitable?

  • February 23, 2022
While COVID-19 variables may cast doubt on office work alternatives, values point to many strong returns.
Industry Trends Insights

Retail Looks for Optimism in the Wake of Covid

  • February 9, 2022
After a bumpy 22 months, optimism may be making a comeback within the retail space. Last year, brands were still in a state of survival witnessed by a seismic swing in eCommerce, changing consumer behavior, and challenged supply chains.
Industry Trends Insights

Despite Unfinished Business, Multifamily poised for Better Times Ahead.

  • February 1, 2022
For the multifamily housing industry, 2022 is here. Along with the new year, there’s a hope for better times as well as a need to clean-up unfinished business.
Industry Trends Insights

Questions Surround the Return of Commercial Office Space in 2022

  • January 24, 2022
What will happen to commercial real estate in 2022? It’s a trillion-dollar question, but the trends that seemed assured and certain just a few months ago are now in flux.
Industry Trends Insights

CRE Conversions: Adaptive Reuse Makes the Most of Existing Assets

  • January 7, 2022
Now may be the ideal time to consider adaptive reuse to convert commercial property to residential or repurposed for a different commercial use.
Insights Press Releases

KBS Sells Three-Building 584,147 Square-Foot Class A Office Park in Fairfax, Virginia

  • December 10, 2021
Investors continue to seek assets renovated to the highest institutional standards.
Culture Insights

Columbia, South Carolina, celebrates the city’s legacy of remarkable women with monument at KBS’ Main & Gervais building

  • November 10, 2021
This past summer, thought leaders in South Carolina’s capital city of Colombia gathered to honor the outstanding women, past and present, who helped shape our country’s 18th state. The occasion was the official unveiling of Architecture of Strength, an impressive monolithic sculpture and a daily reminder of women’s profound contribution to the community and beyond.
Industry Trends Insights

How CRE is Transforming Our Surroundings

  • November 2, 2021
The pandemic has brought a myriad of changes, much of which will have a permanent impression on commercial real estate (CRE). One of the most notable is the shift in consumer behavior and the impact on the environment around us.
Insights Sustainability

The Role of Commercial Real Estate in Sustainability

  • October 12, 2021
Sustainability is both an opportunity and a necessity for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry, which increasingly leverages it to serve people and future possibilities.
Industry Trends Insights

Office Trends: Behind the Rush to Dallas

  • August 30, 2021
Texas is the trifecta state, a place with warm weather, a zero-percent state income tax and inexpensive housing. But the “Lone Star State” is more than that: it’s also a major office hub centrally located in the U.S., with Dallas anchoring the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro area — where many of the Nation’s largest tech centers are located.
Industry Trends Insights

Industrial Real Estate’s Rise to the Top

  • August 26, 2021
Industrial Real Estate is currently the best performing commercial real estate (CRE) asset type, touting 44 consecutive quarters of positive net absorption. That’s according to recent forecasts, research articles, reports, and other data and analysis presented over the past couple of months. This spotlights an intriguing success story amid a pandemic that crippled so many businesses and industries.
Insights

What does hybrid and flex work look like and how does it impact office space?

  • August 17, 2021
Pandemic imperatives ultimately led to increased empowerment for office employees, with hybrid and flex work giving them more choices — and companies more to consider.
Industry Trends Insights

Why commercial office space is expanding in secondary markets

  • August 3, 2021
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.
Industry Trends Insights

Tenant Satisfaction and the New American Office

  • July 28, 2021
Remember when cubicles were all the rage? Office tenant preferences have changed over the years. Today, tenant satisfaction has been redefined as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and dramatic changes in the labor market.
Industry Trends Insights

Office Real Estate and COVID-19: the Great Shakedown

  • July 16, 2021
Like most of the commercial real estate (CRE) market, office came under pressure in 2020. Responding to local shelter-in-place health orders, up to 70% of the U.S. workforce was working from home (WFH) in April 2020, transforming once-bustling office buildings into ghost towns. That percentage has decreased to 56% since the beginning of the year, signaling a recovery is underway. The extent of that recovery and what it means for office real estate is still unknown, but there is some speculation.
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