WASHINGTON, DC–Following the Great Recession the entire US, for the most part, became a tenant’s market. Landlords eagerly granted generous TIs and free rent to keep existing tenants and lure the occasional new one.
Markets around the US have long started improving but tenants don’t seem to have gotten the message. “Even though the markets have rebounded nationally concessions are still increasing for class A space,” says Sandy Paul, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s managing director of National Market Research and co-author of a report on the subject that the company is about to release.