Moody`s: Office Vacancy Hits 21% In Q1, Another Record High


Moody`s: Office Vacancy Hits 21% In Q1, Another Record High
U.S. office vacancy hit a new high as commercial real estate’s subdued 2025 performance carried into the first quarter of 2026, according to a report from Moody’s Analytics. Two markets in Texas and California led the increase in vacancy rates, with nearly 1M SF of office occupancy losses each. The industry is navigating an “increasingly complex set of crosscurrents,” including renewed inflationary pressure, resilient high-income consumer spending and restrained office leasing demand that will likely keep CRE performance uneven in the near term, per Moody’s Analytics CRE Preliminary Trend Analysis for Q1 2026. .. ...more RSK: And here is why office sale prices have hit rock bottom.
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U.S. office vacancy hit a new high as commercial real estate’s subdued 2025 performance carried into the first quarter of 2026, according to a report from Moody’s Analytics.

Two markets in Texas and California led the increase in vacancy rates, with nearly 1M SF of office occupancy losses each.

The industry is navigating an “increasingly complex set of crosscurrents,” including renewed inflationary pressure, resilient high-income consumer spending and restrained office leasing demand that will likely keep CRE performance uneven in the near term, per Moody’s Analytics CRE Preliminary Trend Analysis for Q1 2026. ..

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Moody`s: Office Vacancy Hits 21% In Q1, Another Record High

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