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DC Office Market Remains Strong

WASHINGTON, DC-In its third-quarter market overview, commercial real estate firm CB Richard Ellis reports that the overall vacancy rate in the nation's capital fell to a low of 5.34%, bucking trends regionally and nationally of decline.

By Marlon Millner | Updated on October 19, 2001

WASHINGTON, DC-Despite the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and New York’s World Trade Center twin towers, the nation’s capital has one of the strongest commercial real estate markets in the country, says brokerage firm CB Richard Ellis. In that firm’s third-quarter overview, it reported that the District has a region low vacancy rate of 5.34%, including sublease space. Not including sublease, the District has a low vacancy rate of 3.52%.

CB Richard Ellis did not ignore the fact that the District lost millions of dollars each day for the several weeks that Ronald Reagan National Airport was closed, and that thousands of workers in the transportation, hospitality and tourism industries lost their jobs here after the attacks. But the firm believes that the city’s commercial real estate stock of nearly 88 million sf remained insulated. The firm believes the local economy will bottom out by the end of the first quarter of 2002 and begin its recovery in the third quarter of next year. That said, the firm like other prognosticators, believes that the federal government’s demand for space will more than make up for any slack in activity among the private sector. Certainly in the example of nearby suburb Crystal City, that submarket’s near 14% vacancy rate disappeared after the General Services Administration gobbled up more than 800,000 sf of vacant office space, a large portion of which had been leased to government tenants previously.

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