Baltimore Metropolitan Area Office Market
After the market experienced almost 1.3 MSF of negative net absorption from 2020 to 2022, the market rebounded in 2023, ending the year with 57,000 SF of positive net absorption. The market continued the positive momentum from 2023, experiencing 360,000 SF of positive net absorption during 2024. During 2025, however, the market saw negative activity, with 260,000 SF of negative net absorption, largely due to T. Rowe Price vacating 435,000 SF of leased space at 100 E Pratt Street to move into their new headquarters. If not for the T. Rowe Price move, the market would have experienced a notable amount of positive net absorption during the year. Although Baltimore’s vacancy remains above the historical average of 14.4%, the vacancy rate has stabilized and remained relatively flat since the end of 2022, ending 2025 at 15.7%. Baltimore office development has slowed steadily since a peak of over 1.9 MSF under construction in 2016, with only one project under construction totaling 63,000 SF.
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Baltimore Industrial Market
The Baltimore industrial market experienced almost 1.9 million square feet of negative net absorption during the year, largely due to WBX Commerce vacating 359,000 SF at 1010 Swan Creek Drive and idX Corporation vacating 434,000 SF at 8901 Snowden River Parkway. This led to a vacancy rate of 8.1% to end 2025, an annual expansion of 190 basis points. Despite the annual expansion in vacancy, the market’s vacancy remains in line with the decade average of 7.9%. Despite average asking rents decreasing slightly year-over-year, they continue to sit near record highs, ending 2025 at $8.00/SF across all product types. In terms of product type breakdown, warehouse/distribution, general industrial, and flex product have all remained stable and saw average rents ending the year at $7.33/SF, $9.12/SF, and $11.75/SF, respectively. Development levels remained elevated during 2025, as the market saw almost 2.9 million square feet of deliveries throughout the year, the most the market has seen since 2022. On the other hand, construction levels have contracted, ending 2025 with only 1.6 million square feet of product under construction across 11 properties.