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August 30, 2023

U-Turn Permitted: Companies Rethinking Office Abandonment After RTO Mandates

JLL EVP Coleman Morris Discusses Repositioning Efforts In The Perimeter Submarket On Sept. 14

With more businesses implementing return-to-office mandates and adding more teeth to those they have in place, some of the country’s best-known companies are doing something large enterprises don’t like to do: They’re reversing course.

It’s not the full-fledged return to the office that many landlords and brokers have in mind as they mark the fourth Labor Day weekend — annually pointed to as a date by which workers will come back to their desks — since the pandemic cleared out offices in early 2020. It is instead a trickle of companies that abandoned office space in the last few years changing their minds.

U-Turn Permitted: Companies Rethinking Office Abandonment After RTO Mandates

“At a macro level, we've seen office shrinkage over the last four quarters, but when you get to the micro level, companies may have shrunk their portfolio too quickly or specific offices too much, and they're now rethinking how much space they need,” Cushman & Wakefield Global Head of Occupier…

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Portman Scales Back Ponce & Ponce Project Due To 'Crunched' Financing Market

Portman Scales Back Ponce & Ponce Project Due To 'Crunched' Financing Market  

Portman Holdings' plans for a stretch of Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Virginia-Highland near the Atlanta BeltLine are getting a little less ambitious. The Atlanta-based firm isn't purchasing three buildings at the edge of the planned Ponce & Ponce project's scope and doesn't expect to begin construction…

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U.S. Apartment Rents Drop Year-Over-Year For First Time Since Early 2021

U.S. Apartment Rents Drop Year-Over-Year For First Time Since Early 2021  

Year-over-year apartment rent growth turned negative this month for the first time since early in the pandemic. On a nationwide average, August apartment rents were 1.2% cheaper than they were in the same month last year, according to  Apartment List’s September rent report  released Wednesday. Rent prices were…

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