Following his inauguration ceremony on January 20th, President Biden settled into the Oval Office to execute a stack of executive orders and other actions. The third document he signed serves to return the United States to…
Capitol Markets
Issues and analysis relating to government leased and owned property
2021 Investor Sentiment Survey Results
Colliers recently released its U.S. 2021 Investor Sentiment Survey Results, an annual look at the mood of the investor community at the start of the New Year. Not surprisingly, more than half of all investors surveyed…
Negative Net Absorption During 2020 Pandemic Exceeds Global Financial Crisis
In a recent blog article on Colliers’ Knowledge Leader site, National Director of Office Research Stephen Newbold reveals the scale of COVID-19 pandemic-driven occupancy decline in 2020. Newbold notes that the negative net absorption that has…
Of Beauty and Brutalism: A New Executive Order Commands Classical Architecture in Federal Buildings
Marble steps and columns crowned in the Corinthian order, yes. Great battleship-like masses of bare concrete, no. So demands an executive order issued from the White House on December 1, 2020, shorthanded as the “beautiful buildings…
Near-Record Sublease Space Indicative of Market Weakness
Colliers recently issued a profile of the Top 25 U.S. office markets, which observed that net absorption fell into negative territory for the first time in a decade and vacancy rates posted their sharpest increase over…
Long-Term Leased Assets Now More Plentiful, Yet Older
From its peak in 2013, the number of long-term GSA-leased properties declined steadily for four years before stabilizing. But only in the past year has that portion of the property inventory started to recover. This trend…
GSA’s Progress Toward Long-Term Leasing
GSA’s effort toward execution of long-term leases has been a popular topic among investors. Going back to the earliest days of this blog, we observed that the remaining term of GSA leases was dwindling. When GSA…