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The Florida economy has been on an absolute tear. By nearly every metric, the Sunshine State is firing on all …

While questions remain about the office market in states like New York or California, Florida office landlords are surviving, even …

If you’re renting office space, you better have the cool factor. That’s the lesson from the pandemic-driven shift in work …

In a move that’s good for office landlords but also for workplace collegiality and for the overall economy, large employers …

Over the course of seven decades, Florida has transformed itself from a backwater into an economic powerhouse. In 1946, Florida …

Offices emptied out during the pandemic. Now, they’re filling back up again, and Florida has one of the nation’s healthiest office markets. Central business districts in Miami and West Palm Beach are experiencing building booms, while the CBDs of Tampa and St. Petersburg are showing robust occupancy and rent growth.

In the last 25 years, there have been only two serious downturns in commercial real estate, and one lasted less …

In media coverage and popular perception, one steady theme has held constant throughout the COVID pandemic: The office market is struggling, perhaps even dying.

On November 10, 2021, the US Labor Department released data indicating that the year-over-year inflation rate had reached 6.2 percent, which is the highest it has been since November 1990 and a notable increase from a rate of 5.4 percent the month before.

It’s no secret that the Fed is preparing to taper its asset purchases which have been at record highs to mitigate the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s a common refrain, and yet more fabulous than truth: Gold has an abiding and near mystic intrinsic value, and thus is the, well, gold standard for inflation protection.

Almost any news outlet you turn to today is running headlines on the impending debt ceiling crisis. Each of them is predicting the potential repercussions if the debt ceiling isn’t raised before October 18th when some estimate the Treasury will reach the end of its “extraordinary measures”.

Mack Feldman, vice president of Feldman Equities, which owns several major office buildings in Tampa Bay, said Florida may see less of a migration to remote working than more dense cities like New York.

“Ironically, we’re in a really good position because of our historical weakness, which is the lack of mass transit,” he said. “If all my employees had to take a subway, I’d be pretty anxious right now.”

Larry Feldman, CEO of Feldman Equities in Tampa, said he thinks the two dynamics — more square footage per employee, but less aggregate space as more workers spend part of their time at home or another remote location — could offset each other.

The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t slowed momentum, professionals say — though it’s still early days. “Office leases have been getting done …