Record Setting Office Rents

Recently, the Dallas Morning News wrote that office rents in the Uptown area of Dallas have passed $50/square foot, which is a new record for North Texas. Driven by corporate relocations, along with other employment gains office space is in high demand. Jones Lang...

Construction Costs

Not a great topic around developers, building owners and tenants, these days! Labor costs have increased but DFW has one of the lowest increases in the country. Meanwhile costs of goods have increased significantly. Click here to read the entire article and view the...

Downtown Dallas Displaced Workers Accommodated

Last week was one of the most horrific for all Dallasites in recent memory. But watching people help other people went a long way to helping restore faith in humanity. Police closed down a major area of downtown Dallas displacing many companies and their workers. Six...

No Landline?

I remember a while back (OK, years ago) my kids told me to call someone’s cell phone in lieu of their home phone as NO ONE answered those anymore. Yes, I admit, that home phones are relegated to phone solicitations primarily; however, businesses? In an article...

US Office Vacancies Drop to New Low

Vacancy rates for US office properties fell to a new 7-year low of 13.9% by the end of 2015 according to a new report from Cushman & Wakefield as reported by Bisnow. 700,000 new office jobs nationally helped spur the absorption rate which totaled 81.7 million...