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Month-over-month average rate increases but pressures stifle year-over-year growth SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 24, 2026 – Average U.S. self storage advertised rates posted a month-over-month gain in May 2026 but declined year-over-year, underscoring the industry’s ongoing supply and demand challenges. A new…
Owners poised for busy summer leasing season; recent uplift buoys investment prospects SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 24, 2026 – Preleasing at the Yardi® 200 schools reached 78% in May 2026 as the average student housing per-bed rent increased 0.2% month over month and 1.7% year over year, according to new data…
As of May 2026, the national office vacancy rate reached 17.6 percent. Read the latest Yardi Matrix Office Market Outlook. Report highlights San Francisco leads vacancy recovery As of May, the national office vacancy rate reached 17.6 percent—180 basis points lower year-over-year. Manhattan recorded the lowest rate…
Walker & Dunlop analysis of Deutsche GRI findings identifies disciplined capital deployment, residential dominance, bifurcated office markets, and tightening financing conditions as key themes reshaping European real estate.
Cushman & Wakefield analyzes how the National Counterintelligence and Security Center's rescission of ICD 705 POA&M requirements removes a uniform compliance deadline for secure facilities but does not eliminate evolving security standards, shifting focus toward program-level compliance…
Cushman & Wakefield's 13th annual Bright Insight report reveals that law firms maintain record leasing activity and strong office demand while adapting workplace strategies to support collaboration, client engagement, and accelerating AI adoption.
Cushman & Wakefield analyzes how massive AI infrastructure bond issuance by tech hyperscalers is competing for fixed-income capital with CRE debt markets, raising financing costs and lender selectivity across commercial real estate sectors.
CBRE research examines how hybrid work arrangements create a 'relationship gap' by undermining cross-team collaboration and knowledge-sharing that organizations fail to measure, despite employees prioritizing in-office work primarily for team connection.
Like other legislatures around the United States, the New York State Legislature spent the first half of this year considering policy on controversial topics that affect commercial real estate development. When both chambers adjourned their 2026 legislative session in early June, two bills they had passed…
BGO chief economist Ryan Severino argues weak job growth does not automatically signal recession.
Ranks U.S. markets by concentration of Fortune 500 corporate headquarters and the office-demand implications.
Lisney's Q1 2026 update on the Irish office property market.
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital has originated a $480 million loan for the office-to-residential conversion of 1740 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. Yellowstone Real Estate Investments was the borrower,… The post Madison Realty Capital Originates $480M Loan for Midtown Manhattan Office-to-Residential Project…
The Hague office market recorded stable conditions in Q1 2026, with take-up increasing to approximately 20,300 square meters compared to 16,300 square meters in Q1 2025, while total available space stood at approximately 128,300 square meters with vacancy at 3.1%, supporting stable prime rents at €245 per square meter per annum. Investment activity remained limited at €7.5 million with a single transaction of approximately 2,800 square meters, and prime net initial yields remained stable at 5.50%, with the market expected to maintain stable conditions driven by location-specific occupier requirements and government-related activity.
Cushman & Wakefield's Netherlands office market report for Q1 2026 covers investment activity, occupier demand, and market fundamentals, reporting €209 million in investment volumes, 216,769 sqm of occupier take-up, a 7.7% vacancy rate, and a prime rent of €625 per square meter per year. The document identifies a market characterized by cautious optimism in investment despite geopolitical uncertainty and financing cost pressures, while occupier demand shows intensifying polarization favoring modern, sustainable office spaces near intercity stations over functionally obsolete stock.
Bristol's office take-up in 2025 totalled 604,119 sq ft across 110 transactions, 37% above 2024 and 20% above the five-year average, with Insurance & Financial and Professional sectors leading demand. Prime headline rents reached £50 per sq ft in Q3 2025, representing 33% growth since end-2019, with projections to reach £60 per sq ft by 2028, while total availability fell to 1.14 million sq ft with Grade A vacancy at 1.0% and Prime at 2.3%.
This is a market report published by Savills in November 2025 covering the office investment market in Bristol, UK. The report is part of a series tracking regional office investment activity in the United Kingdom.
This is a market report published by Cushman & Wakefield in September 2025 focused on the office sector in Oslo, Norway, with results from the third quarter of 2025. The report is part of a broader "DNA of Real Estate Europe" series and includes a specific breakout analysis for the Oslo market.
The JLL Nordic Outlook Report Autumn 2025 examines how Nordic institutional strength creates enduring value in the region's real estate market, with particular emphasis on Stockholm's top European innovation ranking. The report notes that since February 2025, increased global uncertainty stemming from shifts in the world order has prompted investors to reassess risk and seek stability in regions with proven institutional strength, potentially benefiting Europe's relative position.
This is an office sector spotlight report published by Savills in June 2025 focusing on the Bristol market. The report provides market coverage specific to the Bristol office sector during the summer 2025 period.
This is a market outlook and forecast report published by CBRE on December 31, 2024, covering the Netherlands real estate market with projections for 2025. The report addresses multiple sectors including capital markets, office, retail, industrial, multifamily, and hospitality, with geographic focus on Amsterdam and the Netherlands within Europe.
JLL's Switzerland office market study for 2025 reports that vacancy rates in the five largest Swiss markets (Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Basel, and Lausanne) rose 9% year-over-year to 995,500 m², with the average supply ratio increasing from 4.1% in late 2019 to 5.0% at end of 2024, while new construction activity bottomed out at 57,000 m² in 2024 and is expected to rise annually between 2025 and 2027. The report finds that demand remains intact for modern, flexible, ESG-compliant office space in well-connected locations, while older buildings without proximity to transit stations face leasing challenges, and predicts yield compression and higher transaction volumes in 2025 as investors increase capital deployment in a lower interest rate environment.
Cushman & Wakefield's Warsaw office market report for Q1 2026 shows that total office stock reached 6.28 million sqm with a 9.5% vacancy rate, down 1.0 percentage point year-on-year, while the development pipeline contracted to a 30-year low of 118,000 sqm under construction due to subdued new project activity. Prime headline rents stood at €24–29 per sqm per month in central locations and €15–19 in non-central areas, with leasing activity totaling 133,800 sqm in the quarter, primarily driven by shared service centres and sectors including IT, banking, and pharmaceuticals.
This is a first-quarter 2026 data figures report published by CBRE covering the office sector in Finland, with a focus on Helsinki.
The Italian real estate market recorded €12.4 billion in investment volume during 2025, representing the highest level in six years and a 23% annual increase from 2024, with particularly strong performance in retail (€3.4 billion, up 39% year-over-year), hospitality (€2.4 billion), logistics (€2.2 billion), and living sectors (€1 billion, up 70%), alongside recovery in office investments (€1.9 billion) driven by core deals in Milan and Rome. Milan office take-up reached 405,000 sqm with prime rents rising to €850/sqm/year, while student housing investments doubled and the living sector achieved over 70% growth compared to 2024, reflecting strong investor confidence across multiple asset classes.
Dublin's industrial and logistics market recorded approximately 50,700 square metres of take-up across 23 deals in the first quarter of 2026, though this remains below historical averages at around 159,000 square metres over the preceding twelve months. Dublin's office market achieved approximately 53,000 square metres of take-up in Q2 2026, with first-half 2026 totalling approximately 90,000 square metres, roughly 10% below the five-year H1 average but showing broadening demand beyond the central business district.
This is a data report published by CBRE on December 31, 2025, presenting fourth quarter 2025 figures for the Dublin office market.
Knight Frank's H2 2025 report on Brussels offices analyzes a bifurcated occupier market where annual take-up reached 383,000 sq m (up 17% year-on-year), driven primarily by large deals above 5,000 sq m totaling 184,000 sq m, while smaller deals under 5,000 sq m stagnated at 199,000 sq m across 304 transactions. The report contextualizes this activity against Brussels's political crisis (exceeding 600 days without a government as of January 2026), credit rating downgrade by Standard & Poor's, and economic headwinds including weak Belgian GDP growth forecast at 1.1% for 2026 and rising public debt exceeding €14 billion.
The Prague office market in Q4 2025 experienced its lowest vacancy rate since early 2020, with only five office projects completed during the year representing historically minimal new supply, while prime rents remained stable quarter-on-quarter despite expectations for growth in 2026. Office development activity concentrated in Inner City, and although take-up declined year-on-year, demand continued to exceed long-term averages.
Dublin office market activity moderated in Q4 2025 with 67,000 sqm of take-up, down from 75,400 sqm in Q3 but remaining 41% above Q4 2024 and exceeding the 10-year quarterly average of 58,200 sqm. Prime city centre rents remained stable at €678–€700 per sqm, the headline vacancy rate stood at 14.7%, professional services led occupier demand at 36% of take-up, and North American occupiers accounted for 31% of activity while domestic occupiers represented 22%.
Belgium's office capital markets saw investment volume exceed €1 billion in 2025, driven by core+ transactions and an atypical asset disposal, with private wealth investors expanding their deal activity across all asset segments. Prime office yields remained unchanged in Brussels and Flanders pending additional reference transactions to establish new market benchmarks.
Dublin's office market strengthened in Q3 2025 with take-up reaching 75,400 sqm, up 43% year-over-year, driven by 57 completed transactions across diverse sectors with improved occupier confidence and declining vacancy rates at 14.9%. Prime city centre headline rents remained stable at €678–€700 psm, with domestic occupiers accounting for 49% of activity, the financial sector leading at 33% of take-up, and suburban activity increasing notably to 35% of total transactions.
This Savills report reviews Ireland's commercial real estate investment market in 2024 and provides a 2025 outlook, analyzing yield stabilization, deal volumes of €2.5 billion across 115 transactions, and sector performance including retail's 42% market share and office's 21% share. The document projects that income growth rather than yield compression will drive returns in 2025, expects new supply of offices and private rental sector housing to fall approximately 65% while logistics declines 12%, and forecasts strong refinancing activity despite some distressed opportunities as interest rates remain elevated relative to pre-pandemic levels.
Savills Research's 2025 Dublin office market review reports that Dublin 2 vacancy increased from 5.7% in 2021 to 16.3% by end-2024, but is expected to tighten significantly as grey space absorption accelerated in 2024 and 55% of newly delivered pipeline is already reserved. Prime benchmark rents in the CBD grew 4% year-on-year to €65.00 psf in Q4 2024—the first quarterly increase since Q2 2022—with the report projecting continued rental growth driven by occupier demand for high-specification, centrally located ESG-compliant stock and an expected surge in letting activity in 2025 underpinned by substantial pre-let commitments including Workday's 416,000 sq ft reservation.
Berlin's office market recorded 146,000 square meters of take-up in Q1 2026, a 42% year-on-year increase representing the highest growth among top German office markets, driven by six large lease agreements of 5,000 square meters or more compared to only one in the prior-year period. Prime rents stood at €47 per square meter with a 9.1% vacancy rate, while ICT firms and industrial headquarters collectively accounted for nearly half of total market activity, with major tenants including Strabag, 50Hertz, Wolt, Snowflake, and Doctolib.
Cushman & Wakefield reports that Hamburg's office leasing market recorded 100,400 sq m of take-up in Q1 2026, approximately 9 percent below the prior year, while the number of transactions increased 40 percent year-on-year to 140 deals, reflecting highly fragmented demand dominated by small and medium-sized units. Prime rent remained stable at €37.00 per sq m, the weighted average rent declined marginally to €21.85 per sq m, and the vacancy rate rose to 6.6 percent by quarter-end.
This is a quarterly data report published by CBRE on March 31, 2026, presenting office market figures for Lisbon, Portugal in the first quarter of 2026.
The Q1 2026 MarketBeat report covers Spain's office sector in Madrid and Barcelona, analyzing leasing activity, availability, rents, and investment trends across both markets. Key findings state that Madrid and Barcelona entered 2026 with resilient office demand despite limited space availability, with quality Grade A and B+ buildings driving the market, declining availability putting pressure on prime stock, prime rents maintaining upward trends, and renewed investment interest focused on core and core-plus prime assets in established locations.
Germany's commercial real estate investment market recorded €8.9 billion in transaction volume during Q1 2026, a 12 percent increase year-over-year, driven primarily by single-asset deals outside the seven major metropolitan areas while yields remained stable despite rising government bond yields compressing risk premiums. The document attributes this modest positive momentum to improved economic conditions compared to 2022, broader investor participation across asset classes (led by Living at 28 percent of volume), and ongoing deal completion from transactions initiated in 2025, though geopolitical tensions and rising financing costs have created cautious sentiment among some market participants.
BNP Paribas Real Estate's first-quarter 2026 Barcelona office market report documents total availability at 11.95%, with absorption of 72,312 square meters across 61 transactions and average rents at 19.45 euros per square meter monthly, rising 4.3% year-over-year. The report projects 2026 gross absorption of approximately 315,000 square meters with a 5% increase in contracting activity, against a Spanish GDP growth forecast of 2.3%.
French commercial real estate investment volumes reached 1.94 billion euros in the first quarter of 2026, representing a 47 percent decline from the same period in 2025 and the lowest level since 2010, driven by political instability in late 2025 and geopolitical tensions in Iran that dampened investor confidence. Across asset classes, offices recorded 711 million euros, retail 895 million euros, and logistics 225 million euros, with the report noting that price adjustments by sellers and approaching refinancing deadlines are necessary conditions for market normalization, while bond market volatility reaching levels unseen since 2022 is expected to have full impact on investment volumes only in the second half of 2026.
Munich's office market achieved approximately 581,000 square meters of take-up in 2025, representing a slight 4% decline from 2024's 606,000 square meters, though the final quarter registered 173,000 square meters, the strongest quarterly result since Q3 2022. Demand distributed evenly across all size segments with Centre Fringe East and City Centre as leading zones, while premium office rents reached €58.00 per square meter amid a low 3.4% vacancy rate in the city center.
Munich's investment market achieved €2.56 billion in transaction volume during 2025, with 44% or €1.1 billion concentrated in the fourth quarter, driven largely by two major Signa property sales (Oberpollinger and Corbinian); small and medium-sized deals under €100 million increased 15% compared to 2024 and reached €1.4 billion. Prime yields shifted modestly, with logistics assets rising 25 basis points to 4.50%, while retail high street and office sectors remained flat at 3.45% and 4.20% respectively.
Berlin's office market recorded 486,000 square meters of total transaction volume in Q4 2025, down 16 percent year-over-year, with large contracts above 5,000 square meters declining 71 percent while smaller deals up to 5,000 square meters increased 17 percent. Vacancy rose to 1.93 million square meters (8.9 percent vacancy rate) over the 12-month period, prime rents increased 4 percent to 47 euros per square meter, and top-performing submarkets were Mitte, Charlottenburg/Tiergarten, and Kreuzberg/Neukölln, with the market dominated by smaller, premium-quality spaces in city-center locations.
Milan's office market achieved 401,000 square meters of take-up in 2025 with a 6% year-on-year increase and 352 occupier transactions, ending two years of contraction, while Grade A/A+ premises represented 79% of total take-up. Prime office rents surged 11% in Q4 2025 to €800 per square meter per year in CBD Duomo and €760 in CBD Porta Nuova, though the overall vacancy rate edged up to 10.1% with CBD submarkets maintaining tight availability at 3.2% average vacancy.
This Cushman & Wakefield market report covers the Ile-de-France office market in Q4 2025, documenting economic conditions, office demand, pricing, and supply across the Paris metropolitan region. Key findings include: France's 2025 GDP growth revised upward to 0.9%, but office demand in Ile-de-France reached its lowest level since 2002 at 1.64 million square meters (down 9% year-over-year), while immediate office supply doubled to 6.247 million square meters over six years with a 10.7% vacancy rate, and prime office rents in Paris's central business district accelerated to a historical €1,250/m²/year while secondary market rents declined across most sectors.
This Savills report examines Portugal's flexible workspace market, particularly in Lisbon and Porto, analyzing how post-pandemic hybrid work models have driven demand for coworking hubs, innovation spaces, and serviced offices beyond traditional corporate offices. The document presents the flexible workspace sector as steady-growing in Portugal, driven by startups, remote work culture, and international companies, while positioning Portugal as an attractive hub for flexible work due to its quality of life, cost efficiency, talent, and digital infrastructure.
French corporate real estate investment reached 13.7 billion euros in 2025, representing an 8% increase from 2024, with offices accounting for 50% of total investment volumes while political and economic uncertainty constrains broader market recovery. The document projects investment growth of approximately 10% annually over 2026-2027, reaching 15 billion euros in 2026 and 17 billion in 2027, contingent on downward adjustments in asset valuations and clarification of fiscal policy following upcoming elections.
Madrid's office market recorded take-up of 147,500 square meters in Q4 2025, with annual 2025 take-up around 530,000 square meters in line with pre-Covid levels, while prime rent closed at €43/sqm/month with expected continued increases in 2026 due to limited high-quality supply. Spain's total office investment in 2025 reached approximately €2.4 billion, with Madrid accounting for 67% and Barcelona 28%, though nearly €500 million involved conversions to residential or tourism use, predominantly in Madrid.
Munich's office market showed strong third-quarter 2025 performance with space take-up of approximately 140,800 square meters, up 15 percent from the prior quarter, though year-to-date take-up of 401,600 square meters was 9 percent below the same 2024 period. Prime rents reached €55.00 per square meter (up 5.8 percent year-over-year) while the vacancy rate declined slightly to 8.1 percent, with demand for high-quality central locations remaining robust despite rental prices approaching €70.00 per square meter at maximum levels.
This is a market data report published by CBRE on September 30, 2025, presenting office sector figures for the third quarter of 2025 in Madrid, Spain.
This is the 45th edition of Cushman & Wakefield's MarketBeat Portugal report, covering economic forecasts and commercial real estate sector analysis for autumn 2025. The document presents Moody's Analytics forecasts indicating moderate Portuguese economic growth of 1.7% GDP in 2025, with private consumption rising 2.9%, investment growing 5.3%, inflation at 2.4%, and unemployment declining to 6.1%, while longer-term projections (2026–2027) show continued gradual acceleration with GDP growth of 2.0–2.1% and unemployment falling to 5.2% by 2027.
This is a market report published by Colliers in June 2025 providing a snapshot of office sector conditions in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal.
The Cushman & Wakefield Lisbon Office MarketBeat Q2 2025 report covers the Greater Lisbon office market, documenting take-up of 83,840 square meters in the first semester of 2025 (a 34 percent year-on-year decline), with the vacancy rate at 7.4 percent and prime rent stable at €29.00 per square meter per month in the Prime Central Business District. The report projects Portuguese GDP growth of 1.7 percent in 2025 followed by acceleration to 2.6 percent in 2026, and highlights that the largest transaction of Q2 2025 was Banco de Portugal's acquisition of a 32,000 square meter building at Entrecampos for future headquarters.
Berlin's real estate investment market recorded €986 million in transaction volume during Q1 2025, representing a 116% increase compared to Q1 2024, with the market regaining its top position nationally from Munich; the surge was driven largely by the €400 million-plus sale of the Upper West to the Schoeller Group family office, supplemented by increased activity in medium-sized transactions. Net prime yields remained stable at 4.25% for office and logistics properties and 3.70% for premium retail, with office properties dominating 67.5% of investment volume and central locations accounting for 78.8% of transactions.
Frankfurt's office market recorded 194,600 square meters of take-up in Q1 2025, exceeding the five-year average by 124% and the ten-year average by 92%, driven primarily by two major financial institution lettings totaling 105,000 square meters. The vacancy rate rose to 10.8% (1.3 million square meters) despite record take-up, prime rent increased to €50.00 per square meter per month, and Cushman & Wakefield forecasts full-year 2025 take-up of around 400,000 square meters with prime rent expected to reach €52.00 per square meter per month by year-end.
The Cushman & Wakefield MarketBeat report on Paris office space in first quarter 2025 examines office market activity in Île-de-France, documenting 419,200 square meters of leasing volume across 660 transactions, representing a 6 percent decline year-over-year and marking the third-weakest start to a year in the past decade. Key market findings show immediate office availability reached 5.8 million square meters (an all-time high), the overall vacancy rate stood at 10 percent, and prime office rents averaged 1,154 euros per square meter annually, with geographic variation including improved activity at Paris QCA and La Défense while peripheral markets experienced elevated vacancy rates above 15 percent.
Madrid's office market recorded 128,000 sq m of take-up across 153 deals in Q1 2025, representing a 13.6% decrease from the same period in 2024 but driven by robust demand with the highest number of transactions since 2017. Average deal size fell to 838 sq m as large-scale transactions declined, while rents continued upward momentum with Prime CBD achievable rents reaching €37.50/sq m/month and average market rents at €19.92/sq m/month, though office investment remained subdued at €80 million while repurposing activity surged to €160 million.
The Cushman & Wakefield Sweden MarketBeat report for Q4 2025 documents that Swedish commercial real estate investment volume reached SEK 61.5 billion in Q4, nearly flat year-over-year, with full-year 2025 volume totaling SEK 171.2 billion (a 26% increase versus 2024), driven by robust domestic and Nordic investor appetite and led by residential sector activity at 22% of transaction volume. The Swedish economy has entered a recovery phase supported by expansionary fiscal measures, with GDP growth at 2.6% year-over-year in Q3 2025, unemployment at 8.2%, and prime yields stable across most segments at or near 3.85–4.85%, signaling sustained investor confidence despite elevated but declining unemployment expectations.
Cushman & Wakefield's Sweden Office Q4 2025 MarketBeat report tracks office market conditions across Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö, reporting full-year 2025 completions of 124,000 sq m with an under-construction pipeline of 372,000 sq m and expecting approximately 130,000 sq m of deliveries in 2026. The report shows Stockholm CBD vacancy at 7.5% with prime rent stable at SEK 9,800/sq m and prime yield at 3.85%, while Gothenburg CBD vacancy remained stable at 15.0% with prime rent increasing to SEK 4,500/sq m, and Malmö CBD vacancy rose to 10.0% with prime rent stable at SEK 3,700/sq m.