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Posts by Greg Gomer

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    The Institutions Are Back in Office. What They’re Actually Buying.

    Office 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.

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    The Office Isn’t Back. The Meeting Room Is.

    New research from OfficeSpace Software covers 954 organizations, 3.9 million in-office employees, and 116 million square feet of office.

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    Extend And Pretend Is Ending. The Buildings That Survive Won’t Be The Ones The Lenders Saved.

    Propmodo 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.

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    Durst Is Spending Tens Of Millions On A Midtown Office Reposition. Zero Of It Is Going To A New Gym.

    Durst Organization just put 600,000 square feet on the market at 114 West 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan. A 26-story, LEED Gold tower built in 1989.

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    Cushman Just Quantified It. AI Is Going To Add 330 Million Square Feet Of CRE Demand. The Room Mix Inside Those Buildings Already Flipped

    Cushman & Wakefield dropped a report this month that should end the “AI is going to gut office demand” trade for good.

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    Hudson Pacific’s Q1 Was The Whole 2026 Office Story In One Earnings Report.

    Hudson Pacific Properties reported Q1 2026 results on Wednesday. The headline numbers were straightforwardly good.

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    Office Leasing Just Hit a Decade High. The Buildings Getting Leased Aren’t Built for the Demand.

    Bisnow dropped the headline of the year this week. U.S. office tenants signed roughly 120 million square feet of new leases in Q1 2026. Up 25% over Q1 2025.

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    Bottom-Decile Office Isn’t Coming Back. Conversion Is The Honest Answer. Cleveland’s Been Showing The Math For A Decade.

    6.6 million square feet of office space converted. Almost 4,000 housing units delivered. Another 1,500 in the pipeline. Roughly 30 landmark buildings repurposed.

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    AI Was Supposed to Empty the Office. The Heaviest Users Are Coming In Most.

    Gensler’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.

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

    People 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.

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

    JLL 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.