Cleveland office market reports
Q2 Office Market Report
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Cleveland’s industrial sector showed continued resilience during the first half of 2021, with vacancy at 5.3%, only increasing 40 basis points during the pandemic. Developers continue to push forward with new projects to satisfy demand from industrial users, bringing the total square footage under construction to 2 msf.
Share of total Cleveland MSA population that is fully vaccinated
Cleveland proportionate vaccination rates continue to outweigh U.S. averages as state and local regulations have remain at ease.
Cleveland metropolitan unemployment rate as of April 2021, dipping below the height of the financial crisis
Historically tightened labor market conditions were halted by the pandemic with over 230 thousand job losses between February and May 2020. However, reopening efforts enabled the economy to add 23.6% jobs since May 2020. .
Change in the office-using employment during the pandemic
Cleveland MSA job losses have declined by 4.8% since the start of the pandemic, though office-using jobs contracted by just 2.7%. This recession's impact on the office-using labor market has been less severe than the global financial crisis, when Financial Activities job losses totaled 6.2%. .
2020-pro-rated 2021 vs. prior 20-year annual average leasing activity
There is no modern precedent for the post-COVID slowdown in leasing activity - not 2001 not 2008- due to the sudden change in office occupiers' future workplace strategies and the 2020 recession.
Net absorption as a percentage of inventory, 2020 through Q2 2021
Negative absorption from 2020 to 2Q21 has totaled 880 thousand sf. This negative absorption approaches the lows of the early 2000's recession (-1.0%) and global financial crisis (-0.4%).
Record high Cleveland vacancy as of Q2 2021
The Q2 2021 vacancy rate is a record high in terms of sublease, direct and total percentages. When the ratio of sublease-to-total vacant space reaches 26.0%, it is historically accompanied by a double-digit rent decline. That ratio stands at 29.4%
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