Central Business District (CBD) Office
Trophy and Class A office towers in urban CBDs.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Office Buildings & Corporate Campuses (8.1.6), the segment that Central Business District (CBD) Office sits within. They are not figures for Central Business District (CBD) Office on its own.
Not sized separately. Office landlords share one classification with retail, industrial, medical and hotel property, so any figure here would describe all commercial leasing under an office heading. The distinction matters more now than it ever has: office is the one asset class where occupancy has structurally reset, and averaging it with warehouses hides exactly that.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Office lease income
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- Moderate
- EBITDA margin
- Pressured
- Capex intensity
- High
leases, but elevated vacancy risk
rising vacancy and concessions
Characteristics
- Most distressed CRE sector (remote/hybrid work).
- Trophy office leases; commodity office obsolescing.
- Refinancing crisis and painful repricing.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Distressed & opportunistic investors
- Conversion developers (office-to-residential)
- Trophy-asset owners & REITs
What’s driving deals
- Distress, repricing, and refinancing maturities.
- Office-to-residential conversions.
- Flight to quality and trophy assets.
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