Author Archives: Rhea Stephen

Year-End 2021 Suburban Chicago Office Market Report

Bradford Allen is pleased to share with you our Year-End 2021 Suburban Chicago Office Market Report.

This quarter in the suburban office market:

  • The overall sublet availability rate increased from 3.9% to 4.5%.
  • Overall direct vacancy and availability rates were 27.4% and 32.7%.
  • The market posted a $24.58 p.s.f. gross asking rate.
  • There was 1.1 million s.f. of negative absorption.

 

 

Year-End 2021 Downtown Chicago Office Market Report

Bradford Allen is pleased to share with you our Year-End 2021 Downtown Chicago Office Market Report.

This quarter in the downtown office market:

  • The overall sublet availability rate remained relatively stable at 3.9%, quarter over quarter.
  • Quarter over quarter, overall direct availability and vacancy remained flat at 19.8% and 15.2%, respectively.
  • Overall, the market posted a $40.38 p.s.f. gross asking rate.
  • The quarter posted 370,000 s.f. of positive absorption.

 

 

CRE Office Pulse 005: Leaders & Laggards in the Pandemic

In our previous Office Pulse, we challenged the conventional view that the suburban Chicago office market was suffering from record-high vacancy rates brought on by the pandemic. In this follow-up, we set out to examine Chicago’s central business district (CBD) office market using a similar methodology to understand how the pandemic affected longer-term occupancy trends downtown. Chicago tenants are at a crossroads, and the data clearly reveal how Covid-19 caused a new disruption in the CBD.

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Q3/21 Downtown Chicago Office Market Report

Bradford Allen is pleased to share with you our Q3/2021 Downtown Chicago Office Market Report.

This quarter in the downtown office market:

  • The overall sublet availability rate remained unchanged at 3.92%, quarter over quarter.
  • Quarter over quarter, overall direct availability and vacancy rates rose from 19.5% to 20.1% and from 14.0% to 15.1%, respectively.
  • Overall, gross average asking rates declined from $41.13 p.s.f. to $41.07 p.s.f., quarter over quarter.

 

 

CRE Office Pulse 004: Chicago’s Suburban Office Market — More Competitive Than You Think

Suburban Chicago’s office vacancy rates may seem historically high, but the headline numbers overlook key details about the marketplace. Large, low-quality properties are having an outsized effect on the averages. Removing these “zombies” from the data shows the market is more competitive than you think.

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Mid-Year 2021 Downtown Chicago Office Market Report

Bradford Allen is pleased to share with you our Mid-Year 2021 Downtown Chicago Office Market Report.

This quarter in the downtown office market:

  • The overall sublet availability rate remained relatively stable at 3.93%, quarter over quarter.
  • Quarter over quarter, overall direct availability and vacancy rose from 19.19% to 19.48% and from 13.47% to 14.01%, respectively.
  • Overall, gross average asking rates declined to $41.13 p.s.f. from $41.49 p.s.f., year over year.

 

 

Mid-Year 2021 Suburban Chicago Office Market Report

Bradford Allen is pleased to share with you our Mid-Year 2021 Suburban Chicago Office Market Report.

This quarter in the suburban office market:

  • From Q4/20 to Q2/21, the overall sublet availability rate increased from 2.99% to 3.30%.
  • From Q4/20 to Q2/21, overall direct vacancy and availability rose from 21.95% to 23.84% and from 26.18% to 27.91%, respectively.
  • Overall, the direct asking rate dropped from $25.03 p.s.f. to $24.91 p.s.f., year over year.

 

 

CRE Office Pulse 003: “Seize the Day, Seize the Deal”

The pandemic is not over, but with vaccination rates rising and public health mitigations easing, office market activity is picking up. Now may be the right time for landlords and tenants to act.

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Q1/21 Downtown Chicago Office Market Report

Bradford Allen is pleased to share with you our Q1 2021 Downtown Chicago Office Market Report.

This quarter in the downtown office market:

  • The overall sublet availability rate rose from 3.83% to 3.87%, quarter over quarter.
  • Quarter over quarter, overall direct availability and vacancy rose to 19.19% from 17.90%, and to 13.47% from 11.98%, respectively.
  • Overall, the quarter posted 1.59 million s.f. of negative absorption.
  • Overall, gross average asking rates increased by $0.07 p.s.f. to $40.78 p.s.f., quarter over quarter.

 

 

CRE Office Pulse 002: “Then & Now The Lingering Side Effects of COVID-19”

One year into the pandemic we sat down with four senior brokers to reflect on the suburban and downtown office markets from the landlord and tenant representative perspectives.

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VIDEO — BA InFocus 001: “On Cold Storage”

In our debut episode of In Focus, Rhea Stephen and Ronan Remandaban are joined by Amit Hasak, CEO of Transship, to talk cold storage. From refrigerators to shipping cargo containers, cold storage is an integral part of the food supply chain, especially with the global consumption of frozen foods. However, as our speakers discuss, there is a deficit in available cold storage space, both locally and nationally, and not all industrial or warehouse space can be converted to cold storage space. Listen as they talk pros and cons.