According to a third quarter report on the office market in Broward County by commercial brokerage firm CBRE, the overall vacancy rate for the region fell 40 basis points from the second quarter and 210 basis points from a year earlier to 9.3% at the end of the third quarter of 2019.
Among some of the key prevailing trends in the market include strong activity by food tenants that are expanding or debuting new dining concepts in the area.
Average daily room rates for Long Island properties will remain steady at 1.5 to 2 percent as a result of slow market growth and little exposure to growth.
Year-over-year average rents jumped 5% to $41.11-per-square-foot. Buildings with the largest rent hikes include 800 Brickell, which went from $42-per-square-foot to $47-per-square-foot during the same period.
Experiential real estate such as all-inclusive resorts in the hospitality sector and the gaming industry are expected to do well, says PwC partner Tim Bodner.
"Demand has kicked in throughout the Greater Philadelphia Metro, which includes Philadelphia proper as well as South Jersey and the city's northern and western suburbs," says Gebroe-Hammer executive managing director Joseph Brecher.
Returns have also moderated from an average of 8.8% in 2018, down 30 bps from 9.1% in 2017, according to Hodes Weill & Associates and Cornell University's annual Institutional Real Estate Allocations Monitor.
Statewide closed sales of existing single-family homes totaled 23,510 last month, an increase of 11.5% from September 2018, according to Florida Realtors. Florida's condo-townhouse market totaled 9,007, up 6.1% compared to a year ago.
CBRE in its third quarter office report states that new office development is now forecast to be just below 2.5 million square feet by the end of 2020.