October 2024

AI and Office Space

There are many reports, views, and predictions about AI and its impact. The recently released Brookings Institute report, Generative AI, the American worker, and the future of work, starts by noting: “To date, most of the discussion around ChatGPT and similar technologies has stayed away from work and...

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CRE Differences

Just because we read articles where office buildings in the US get sold for cents on the dollar, doesn’t mean our market should do the same. If it did, there would be buying opportunities everywhere and we would be converting many more office buildings to...

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Repurposing Vacant Office Buildings

At the TCN Fall conference in Calgary Canada, Scott Hutcheson of Aspen Properties, Iain McCorkindale of M3 Development, and Maxim Olshevsky of Astra Group, led a great panel discussion, Office: Residential Conversions (ORCs). In 2015, there was a sharp decline in oil and gas prices which...

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