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The future of real estate feels like more questions than answers. Where will people work? What gets built? What gets funded? What comes next?
Corporate real estate sits at the center of all of them. Not reacting to those questions, but answering them. Below are the conversations we’re having, and the research and guidance behind them.

The conversations shaping the future of CRE

Operational excellence is a top priority for 50% of occupiers¹

Designing an outsourcing partnership for maximum value
Article | Five Trends Shaping Outsourcing Contracts

Contract structures are shifting toward outcomes. Five trends reshaping how real estate and facilities services are procured.  
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Safeguarding performance with a resilient supply chain
Article | Market-Adaptive Supply Chain

Volatility is now a permanent supply chain condition. Market-adaptive portfolios are built to absorb these shocks by embedding resilience into service delivery. 
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Achieving cost certainty through outcome-based FM
Article | Cost-Predictive Operations

Leaders are trading reactive cost control for a predictable FM cost base, built on outcome-based contracts, procurement scale and global governance. 
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Occupiers are rebalancing portfolio size and workplace experience as utilization rises²

Designing spaces that draw employees in
Report | 2026 Global Workplace and Occupancy Insights

Collaboration and community happen in person, which makes the office worth getting right. Moving from functional space to a place people choose comes down to specific design decisions. 
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Balancing footprint, cost and experience as utilization shifts
Report | 2026 Global Workplace and Occupancy Insights

Hybrid work changed how much space organizations need and how they prove it. Finding the balance means confronting real constraints and measuring what actually drives demand. 
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Prioritizing quantity, quality and location in portfolio planning
Report | 2026 Americas Office Occupier Sentiment Survey

Consolidation has given way to rebalancing, with two-thirds of occupiers planning to hold or grow their space. The leverage now sits in the terms they negotiate.  
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More than 60% of CRE teams are automating or streamlining key activities¹

Anticipating AI’s impact on commercial real estate
Report | AI’s Impact on the Economy, Employment & Productivity

Nearly 80% of U.S. companies use AI, and close to 90% report little impact so far. What changes for real estate is the composition of jobs and where high-value work concentrates, not the number of them.  
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Creating a strong data foundation to optimize the workplace
Report | 2026 Global Workplace and Occupancy Insights

The hybrid workplace is the reality for many organizations. Managing hybrid at scale requires a strategic approach driven by data, powered by technology and AI.  
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Transforming operations with self-optimizing facilities
Article | Self-Optimizing Facilities

FM is still largely managed by a break-fix reactive model. A portfolio that predicts and corrects on its own shifts real estate from a cost line item to a driver of business success.  
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Major reorganizations are underway or being considered at 43% of CRE departments¹

Adapting to the forces changing how CRE teams operate
Report | Managing CRE: Leading and Emerging Practices

Reporting lines, team structures, workforce composition and skills. How CRE organizations are evolving.  
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