Inland Empire Office Market.
The average asking rent fell $0.02/SF to $2.10/SF/Month from last quarter’s all-time high. The average is up 1.6% over the past year and has averaged 4.0% annual growth over the past three years. Vacancy climbed 60 basis points to 10.0% as the market registered 178,601 SF in net absorption losses. Total vacancy is lower than a year ago, when it stood at 10.6%. Sublease availability, representing only 0.7% of existing inventory, declined from already-low levels. Construction activity remains minimal, with three projects totaling 148,000 SF underway.
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Inland Empire Industrial Market
Total vacancy increased for the sixth consecutive quarter, going from 0.7% in early 2022 to 3.9% in the third quarter of 2023. Net absorption over this period totaled 13.4 MSF compared with 36.0 MSF in new construction deliveries. Available sublease space totals 10.1 MSF, a record high, and a jump of 54.0% from three months ago. Most occupiers are focused on cutting costs amid still-high inflation and more-restrained retail spending. Shedding extra space is one way to reduce overhead. Lease term lengths are trending down as tenants adopt a more cautionary stance. Some may be biding their time as they wait for rents to further decrease. Only 26.7% of the 39.8 MSF under-construction pipeline has pre-leased.