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July 2, 2025
Don Catalano

AI Is Replacing These 6 White-Collar Sectors First: White-Collar Office Collapse?

By 2030, over 200,000 U.S. accounting jobs alone may vanish (World Economic Forum). McKinsey estimates 60–70% of administrative tasks are fully automatable today. AI already resolves 85–95% of routine customer service queries. These numbers matter—for workforce size, lease demand, and real estate footprints. In the next sections, we break down the top six sectors facing […]
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Is Your Office Lease A Liability? 8 Clauses You Need to Lock In

In a market like this, your office lease can either be your greatest strategic weapon—or your most dangerous liability. And for too many companies, it’s the latter. Why? Because legacy leases, signed in a totally different economy, are now albatrosses. The rent is too high, the space is underused, and the terms are rigid. Worst […]
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Amazon Bets Big on Warehouses: What Their $15B Industrial Expansion Means

Amazon is eyeing a $15 billion warehouse blitz, with plans to open 80 new logistics facilities across the U.S. and lock in 15- to 25-year leases. That’s a bold move in a battered CRE landscape. Tariffs are driving up costs, interest rates remain high, and demand is uneven. Office vacancies are stuck near 20%. Industrial […]
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wework

WeWork Bounces Back: What Their Comeback Means for Flexible Real Estate

At its peak, WeWork was valued near $50 billion, leasing over 50 million square feet worldwide. The plan was simple: sign long-term leases on prime office space, then rent it out flexibly to startups and big companies alike. But the pandemic hit hard. By 2023, WeWork was buried under $13 billion in lease obligations as […]
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landlord costs

When Every New Tenant Costs More: Inside the Office Market’s Construction Cost Spiral

Landlords aren’t just struggling to fill space—they’re bleeding out trying to build it back. The new reality in commercial real estate? Every tenant that walks out the door leaves behind a deeper hole—and replacing them isn’t just harder, it’s significantly more expensive. So, any way landlords bring in new tenants is through one expensive concession […]
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AI office

The AI Bloodbath is Here…And It’s Taking the Office Market With It

The Collapse of Entry-Level White Collar Jobs Could Wreck the Office Market There’s no soft landing here. The numbers are out—and they’re grim. The World Economic Forum predicts that 83 million jobs will vanish globally by 2027 due to AI. Goldman Sachs takes it a step further: 300 million jobs at risk worldwide, with 10 […]
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Will Tariffs Further Complicate Office to Residential Conversions?

The U.S. office market is in its toughest stretch in decades. Despite aggressive return-to-work pushes, swaths of unused space are becoming zombie buildings—dragging down the value of once-thriving city centers and bleeding millions in lost tax revenue.   Now, local governments are scrambling to breathe life (and dollars) back into these dead assets. At the […]
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HVAC

The Ultimate Warehouse HVAC Guide: Effective Warehouse Ventilation Systems

Stagnant air, soaring utility bills, and equipment breakdowns? That’s not a warehouse—it’s a liability factory. Inadequate airflow turns warehouses into pressure cookers for product loss, energy waste, and health violations.   The solution starts with the right HVAC system, designed to maintain airflow patterns, regulate indoor temperatures, and handle the unique challenges of your warehouse […]
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data center

The Data Center Gold Rush Reshaping CRE: When, Where, and How

With AI adoption skyrocketing and data consumption accelerating at unprecedented levels, we are still on the cusp of explosive data center growth.   The decisions made today—where data centers are built, how power grids evolve, and which states offer the best incentives—will shape the commercial real estate landscape for decades.   Data centers are becoming […]
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One in Ten Government Leases Axed: What DOGE’s Cancellations Mean for CRE

If you thought the private sector’s struggle with empty office towers was bad, imagine what happens when the federal government—one of the largest tenants in the country—starts slashing leases. With 18.4 million square feet of government leases set to expire this year under scrutiny from DOGE, Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency—and billions in […]
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Is Manhattan’s Office Market Shrinking or on the Brink of Recovery?

After years of relentless office space availability increases, Manhattan has finally dipped below 100 million square feet of available space for the first time since 2020. Headlines are calling this a recovery milestone—but does it actually signal a turnaround for the office market, or is it just a reshuffling of the deck chairs on a […]
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