Category: Market Report

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

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

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.

Industrial Real Estate Market Update: Chicago Q2

In this video, CBIZ Gibraltar Sr. Vice President Noah Turner shares a quick update on the state of the Industrial Sector and points to key indicators driving activity across the market, including strong absorption, development, record low vacancy rates, and record high asking rents.

The State of the Return to Office

As many five and ten-year leases come up for the first time since the start of the pandemic, employers are seriously rethinking what they need for their future workplace. While most decision-makers agree that a hybrid work model will remain, 90% of companies will return to the office by the end of 2024 — and … Continued

State of the Office Market Video — Suburban Chicago 2023 Year End Update

The tenant-favorable Chicago Suburban office market conditions present interesting opportunities for occupiers in their current and future leases. In this video, CBIZ Gibraltar’s Executive Vice President Bill Main discusses the current state of the office market in the Chicago Suburbs. As landlords continue to face challenges between lender issues and increased vacancy, they have a lot to … Continued