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Housing Industry Update 2025 - Mid-Year Report

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Across the United States, empty office buildings have become a common sight. According to Moody’s Analytics, office vacancies are at their highest since the 1990s. The COVID hangover has left us with an abundance of vacant or...more

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Local Governments Are Fueling the Office-to-Apartment Conversion Boom — And What It Means for Developers

It is hard to overstate the current wave of office building conversions. With post-COVID office attendance plateauing well below prior levels and housing shortages in most major cities, the conversion of office buildings is...more

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Office To Residential Conversion: A Tale Of The City And The Suburbs

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Across the United States, empty office buildings have become a common sight. According to Moody’s Analytics, office vacancies are at their highest since the 1990s. The COVID hangover has left us with an abundance of vacant or...more

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Cozen Cities - July 23, 2025

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BOSTON—City’s First Office-to-Residential Conversion Project Begins -Construction has officially begun on Boston’s first office-to-residential apartment conversions. This effort is a part of a City pilot program aimed at...more

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Real Estate: Market Pulse (July 2025)

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Seyfarth’s real estate team provides a bird's-eye view of the current state of commercial real estate throughout the country—highlighting which markets and major asset types are active, slowing down, or experiencing shifts....more

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Tall Building Trends in London

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Tall buildings have hugely contributed to London’s sense of place and rightful place as a world-leading financial centre. They have made a defined impact on the London skyline particularly in the period between 2000-2019 when...more

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“City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” Approved by the City Council

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On December 5, 2024, the New York City Council approved with modifications the NYC Department of City Planning’s (DCP) City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, the third and final of Mayor Adams’ City of Yes initiatives. The new...more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 7.26.24

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San Diego made ambitious changes this Tuesday to the city’s blueprint for future growth to help prepare the city for climate change, speed up revisions to neighborhood zoning plans, and try to reverse racial segregation....more

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Money Trees (and Office Greens): Why Real Estate Developers are Transforming Vacant Office Spaces into Trendy Urban Farms

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Welcome to the trendy revolution of urban farming. Three years ago, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a plan to transform vacant office buildings in downtown DC into residential properties with hopes of creating a...more

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Real Estate & Construction News Roundup (1/24/24) – Long-Term Housing Issues in Hawaii, Underperforming REITs, and Growth in a...

In our latest roundup, commercial real estate’s relationship with technology, towns and cities across the country prevent dollar stores from opening, empty offices and other commercial buildings are reused for housing, and...more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 12.04.23

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The Berkeley City Council opened the door to high-rise apartment buildings in the Southside neighborhood by signing off on new zoning regulations that could allow for thousands more homes at UC Berkeley’s doorstep....more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 8.17.23

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The Hermosa Beach City Council unanimously approved its Housing Element, which now must be submitted to the state Department of Housing & Community Development for certification. The state has said Hermosa Beach must build...more

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[Event] San Francisco’s Downtown: What Does the Future Hold? - February 28th, San Francisco, CA

As work habits continue to transition from office space to work from home, sparsely populated downtown office towers are proving to be a barrier to the City’s goal of repopulating the traditional financial district. Enter the...more

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City Hall Releases Report Recommending Regulatory Changes to Facilitate Office Conversions

On Jan. 9, 2023, the city’s Office Adaptive Reuse Task Force issued its report titled the “New York City Office Adaptive Reuse Study.” The Task Force was established to study the potential for the conversion of vacant office...more

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Governor Cuomo Proposes Conversion of Hotels and Commercial Office Buildings

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On January 19, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed an amendment to the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law with the stated purpose of “authoriz[ing] flexibility in zoning to address high commercial vacancy rates and...more

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A Plethora of Propositions: Real Estate Tax, Land Use and Governance on the San Francisco Ballot

Admittedly the issues may appear benign compared to the Presidential race and the drugs, sex and other provocative topics on the state ballot. But San Francisco voters again face a long list of significant local propositions...more

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