Market Reports

Downtown Market Vacancy Continues to Decrease, Asking Rates Increase and Investment Sales Surge Chicago’s downtown office market is continuing to tighten, for the moment. The overall vacancy rate has decreased from 13.1% to 12.8% from year-end 2014 to year-end 2015. This is the lowest it has been since 2Q 2009. As expected, Chicago’s unemployment rate continued … Read more

Suburban Markets Prove Resilient, Availability and Vacancy Rates Drop The Suburban office market maintained the positive momentum it saw in 2014 through the end of 2015 despite the continued migration of large tenants to the CBD. 2015 saw 951,311 sf of positive net absorption which surpassed the 704,910 sf of positive net absorption in 2014. … Read more

Chicago Office Market Continues to See Positive Absorption and Rising Rates Chicago’s downtown office market continues on a steady path. Despite overall vacancy in the CBD increasing slightly to 12.8% from last quarter’s 12.6%, it remains below last year’s 13%. While seeing negligible change in vacancy, unemployment in both Illinois and throughout the country continues … Read more