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What is the Difference Between Flexible Space Models and Traditional Office Leasing?

By Elizabeth Kluger Cooper and Zach Boroson
December 02, 2019

Market forces — such as workplace design, demographics and urbanization, capital flow and technology — are driving the growth of flexible space.

Since the third quarter (Q3) 2018, 64.7% of all net absorption in the United States is attributable to flexible space, and this trend is expected to continue. Today flexible space represents approximately 5% of all U.S. office inventory, and commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL) expects this percentage to grow to 30% by 2030. The average annual growth rate of flexible space in the United States since 2010 has been 23%, while the growth of the U.S. tenant base has only been 1%.

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