{"id":28451,"date":"2023-07-04T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=28451"},"modified":"2023-07-04T20:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:56:59","slug":"torontos-office-vacancy-rate-is-now-higher-than-its-been-for-nearly-30-years-and-peak-vacancy-could-be-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=28451","title":{"rendered":"Toronto\u2019s office vacancy rate is now higher than it\u2019s been for nearly 30 years \u2014 and peak vacancy could be years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Study shows vacancy rate hits 15 per cent this year as companies struggle with post-pandemic employees refusing to make the commute<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/2023\/04\/05\/flight-from-downtown-toronto-office-vacancy-rate-highest-in-nearly-30-years-and-its-worse-in-the-suburbs.html\">Toronto\u2019s office vacancy rate is now higher than it\u2019s been for nearly 30 years \u2014 and peak vacancy could be years away<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/economy\/empty-office-buildings-downtown-what-happened-rcna77443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">America&#8217;s downtown centers wither amid fading hopes for a post-pandemic office boom<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what is normal vacancy rate of large cities? is between 12%-20% post pandemic? many $$ invested in this, but no one needs?<br>but wehy are businesses so concerced? unoess they own the buildiong, a company can downsize; seems to me businesse should want to rediuced office space rented, osdo lert peoile wfh unless uit effecting prodctuvity? but the ones holding the martgage on the office spce\/building don&#8217;twant this; ecess space drives rents down as well as reducing revenue. or is the same thing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the article suggest 2% is normal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;A new study by commercial real estate firm CBRE found that the vacancy rate for downtown Toronto office space hit 15.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2023, the highest it\u2019s been since 1995. That\u2019s <strong><em>up from just two per cent in March 2020<\/em><\/strong>, when the pandemic was declared.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>and: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;New York alone has lost\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3695581\/after-the-remote-work-rush-vacant-offices-and-empty-downtowns.html\">$453 billion<\/a>\u00a0in office real estate. Across the U.S., office buildings have shed anywhere from 40 to 80 percent of their value.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study shows vacancy rate hits 15 per cent this year as companies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[625,140,1761,431,313],"class_list":["post-28451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19-over","tag-paul","tag-real-estate","tag-toronto","tag-work-at-home","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28455,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions\/28455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}