The vacancy rate in the Silicon Valley office market hit 19.4% in the second quarter as net absorption registered an all-time low of negative 1.4M SF, while sublease vacancies shot up 290 basis points compared to the first quarter.

At the end of the first half of 2023, sublease vacancies in Silicon Valley totaled 4.4M SF, according to JLL's office market report.

The report cited tech companies subletting large blocks of space as drivers of this expansion, specifically Google's vacating of offices in Mountain View and Sunnyvale.

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