CBIZ Gibraltar Insights And Resources

Office Market Update — Chicago Year End Report + 2025 Tenant Favorable Outlook

The Chicago office market continues to remain tenant-favorable, with tenants prioritizing well-located buildings having newer amenities and collaborative spaces. The demand for better assets has caused a slight uptick in Trophy and Class A rental rate asking positions, but not effective rates. The demand for higher quality space has forced many landlords of lower quality, … Continued

Understanding Our Strategic Real Estate Process

What are the key phases of the lease process? How can tenants benefit from a conflict-free broker? The factors driving the office market evolution have created tremendous opportunities for companies looking to take advantage of today’s tenant-favorable conditions. As tenants map their needs for their future workplace, many are eager to learn more about a strategic process, … Continued

Office Market Update: Suburban Chicago – Year End Trends Shaping 2025 Ahear

Our team at CBIZ Gibraltar is always monitoring conditions across office markets – and there are several key insights that can benefit tenants leveraging the current landscape for economic advantage. In the suburban Chicago market, leasing activity saw a slight uptick towards the end of 2024 with tenant demand focused on well located, high-quality and … Continued

Office Market Opportunities that Drive Recruitment & Retention

Amid economic volatility, employers are becoming increasingly concerned with how to maximize recruitment and retention efforts without raising costs. While we acknowledge that office space is generally the second largest expense on the balance sheet after payroll, business leaders are taking advantage of market trends for economic advantage and view real estate operating costs as … Continued

Five Tenant Must-Haves in Today’s Commercial Real Estate Market

The commercial real estate market continues to adjust to shifting office space needs since the pandemic. Even as employers implement return-to-office (RTO) policies, in-office work hours are 30% lower than pre-pandemic norms and projected to remain there. As a result, tenants have different priorities and expectations when making decisions about their office space…

Trends Driving the Evolving Office Market — Commercial Real Estate Update

Talent, performance, and culture live at the crossroads of workplace strategy — and today, the dynamics of where and how work gets done is driving interesting change and opportunity across the office market. In this video, CBIZ Gibraltar’s Noah Turner shares an update on the key factors in our evolving landscape.