Office Vacancy vs. Class A Rent
It’s a simple equation: The office market will not begin to recover until employers start hiring again. Friday’s employment report from the Labor Department showing that just 11,000 payroll jobs were eliminated in November and the unemployment rate fell from 10.2 to 10.0 percent is a hopeful sign, but one data point isn’t enough to change the outlook for a slow recovery. Expect office leasing market fundamentals to soften in 2010 with vacancy ending the year at 18.7 percent, up from 17.1 percent in 2009-Q3. The asking rental rate for Class A space is likely to fall another 5 percent next year. The market is expected to turn in 2011 as the vacancy rate embarks on a slow descent, though asking rent may slip a bit further due to the abundance of excess space that will remain on the market in the early stages of the recovery. Source: Grubb & Ellis
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