{"id":5,"date":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/paulwashingtoncommercial-com\/2026\/08\/31\/u-s-office-demand-is-rising-but-uneven-embracing-performance-over-perception\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","slug":"u-s-office-demand-is-rising-but-uneven-embracing-performance-over-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/31\/u-s-office-demand-is-rising-but-uneven-embracing-performance-over-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Office Demand Is Rising, but Uneven | Embracing Performance Over Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/paul-e-washington\/us-office-market-gaining-momentum-but-not-all-properties-are-seeing-equal-demand-remotion-videos-658a\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>The US office market has been improving, but recovery stayed uneven as tenants favored newer, better-located, amenity-rich buildings over older commodity space.<br \/>\nRecovery increasingly split: tenants preferred properties offering newer space, stronger locations, and better amenities, while older commodity offices faced a much tougher leasing path.<br \/>\nA major test still lies ahead: ~42% of pre-pandemic leases had not expired, with ~870M sq-ft set for renewal before end of 2027.<br \/>\nThere was a constructive sign for owners: ~80% of companies planned to maintain or expand their footprints when upcoming lease expirations arrived.<br \/>\nThe path forward looked clear: quality mattered more, tenants held leverage, and owners of outdated space faced stronger pressure to reinvest or reposition.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US office market has been improving, but recovery stayed uneven as tenants favored newer, better-located, amenity-rich buildings over older commodity space. Recovery increasingly split: tenants preferred properties offering newer space, stronger locations, and better amenities, while older commodity offices faced a much tougher leasing path. A major test still lies ahead: ~42% of pre-pandemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}