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After Large Leases, Smaller Space Dominates

Additional options are opening up for tenants searching for space under 30,000 square feet, a segment of the market in better supply-demand balance, with the 2,000 to 50,000-square-foot slice definitely picking up.

By Lisa Brown | Updated on January 29, 2018

Salesforce Tower The Salesforce/Transbay project makes up the third component of large leasing activity.

SAN FRANCISCO—A surge in large leases of 100,000 square feet or more during the second half of 2017 boosted positive net absorption and reduced available space options. Expanding tech tenants were responsible for 14 of 20 large lease transactions in 2017. This surpassed the previous record of 17 large leases for 3.6 million square feet in 2014, according to a fourth-quarter office report by CBRE.

“Combined with the Exchange at Mission Bay, where Dropbox leased the entire space and the Warriors space which was leased by UBER, the Salesforce/Transbay project makes up the third component of the leasing activity,” Meade Boutwell, senior vice president, CBRE tells GlobeSt.com.

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