Commercial Real Estate Reports

Monthly reports tracking key trends across the country’s top office and industrial real estate markets: Keeping an eye on lease rates, vacancy, sale transactions, and development pipelines, as well as offering insights into the possible effects of significant recent news and industry trends on market evolution in the near future.

U.S. Energy Consumption 2020 Update: 22 States Witness 2-Digit Drops in Industrial Power Usage

The pandemic has been the ultimate black swan event of the past decade. Not only did it require changes in the way individuals and groups interact, but also…

How the Pandemic Transformed Working: States & MSAs with Most Telecommuters

Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, we analyzed which areas and demographics had the highest percentages of workers telecommute in the last year, finding that more than one-third of the total population of the U.S. worked from home at some point during the pandemic.

Work Life Balance Generation Survey

Generational Survey: Working from Home is Benefitting Millennials & Gen X, but Hasn’t Been Great for Gen Z

Key takeaways: Half of all employed respondents are still working from home. The pandemic has more negatively affected Gen Z than the other generations. Watching TV/Netflix is one...
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State Unemployment Rates: How They’ve Bounced Back So Far

Key takeaways: South Dakota’s unemployment rate is lower now than it was prior to the pandemic. In 33 states — many of them Midwestern and Plains states —…

Future of Office Leasing

Looking Ahead: Commercial Real Estate Expert Outlook for 2021

The previous year was certainly difficult and out of the ordinary for everyone as the economy experienced unpredictable ups and downs, as well as unique challenges. So, looking toward the rest of this…

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Top 50 Office Sales of the Last 2 Decades

The years between 2000 and 2020 have proven to be quite eventful for the U.S. office market. The first decade started on the tail end of the dot-com…

WFH Skills Survey

Survey: 92% of People Learned New Skills During Quarantine

Key takeaways: 57% of respondents learned new skills for their own personal fulfillment, while 30% are looking for a career change. Cooking and baking, arts and crafts, and…

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Renovations Ranked: U.S. Cities with Most Office Building Renovations in Last 2 Decades

Our study found that at a national level, renovations have been trending downwards since a few years ago, while cities on the East Coast are seeing more renovated buildings relative to their total inventory.

Retail sales reached an all-time high in Q3 2020

E-Commerce Riding High Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season, Brick & Mortar Retail Shows Q3 Comeback

Sales estimates show that e-commerce stayed close to the record numbers recorded in Q2 2020, while in-store retail recovered after a difficult quarter.

Innovation in the USA: Mapping 4 Decades of Patent Activity

A look back at national patenting activity across the past 44 years: the economic importance of U.S. innovation, the essential relationship between the corporate patenting model and small business invention, which U.S. corporations have dominated the race for intellectual property, as well as mapping the distribution of patents and patent applicability across industries and the country.