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Denver Office Leasing Guide for Tenants
Denver’s 2026 office leasing guide for tenants covers the strongest tenant market in the city’s history, with 26.3% metro vacancy giving businesses unprecedented leverage. Tenants can negotiate 12–18 months of free rent, TI allowances of $60–80/SF, and effective rents 15–25% below asking across most submarkets. The guide includes a submarket-by-submarket comparison, a 7-phase leasing timeline, direct vs. sublease analysis, and a full breakdown of total occupancy costs.
East I-70 Corridor Industrial: Denver’s Hottest Submarket
The East I-70 Corridor is Denver’s most important industrial and logistics submarket, home to Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and national retailers. This analysis covers submarket data, major tenant activity, current vacancy challenges, and investment considerations for 2026.
Is Denver Office a Good Investment Now?
Denver office investment in 2026 presents selective opportunities for disciplined buyers, with distressed assets trading at 50–70% discounts to replacement cost and cap rates expanding to 8.4–9.0% across asset classes. Q1 2025 saw $416M in Denver office sales — a 1,366% year-over-year surge — signaling renewed investor confidence despite a 26.3% market-wide vacancy rate. SVN Denver advises surgical asset selection, strong capitalization, and realistic underwriting as the keys to success in this high-risk, high-opportunity market.
SVN Research & Reports
Economic Update – July 12, 2025
1. FACTORY ACTIVITY EXPANSION US factory activity experienced its sharpest expansion in over three years during June, according to indicators from S&P Global and the US Census Bureau. According to the Census Bureau, new orders for manufactured goods increased by...
Economic Update – June 12, 2025
1. CPI INFLATION According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.1% month-over-month and 2.4% year-over-year in May, below expectations. The readings suggest that disinflationary momentum persists despite concerns about the...
Economic Update – May 15, 2025
1. FED INTEREST RATE DECISION The Federal Reserve’s FOMC held rates unchanged at 4.25%-4.50% during its May policy meeting, aligning with market expectations leading up to the decision. While markets and experts largely expected the FOMC to keep rates steady in May,...
Northern Colorado Talking Points
November 2023 Talking Points: Local Trades are the Only Game during November in NoCOCRE
NoCOCRE Sales Volume stays at 5 year lows NOCOCRE Deliveries at 5 year lows, showing caution in DevelopmentContact our advisors to see how they can help you with your property With an average sales price of $1.3 million, and only 53 sales transactions for NoCOCRE...
October 2023 Talking Points: Local Trades are the Only Game during November in NoCOCRE
Tri-county rent growth has dropped to a third of where it was last year Tri-county sales have been slumping four quarters in a rowContact our advisors to see how they can help you with your property In an era where NoCO sales activity is at a very low level as...
September 2023 Talking Points: Investment CRE still alive in NoCO thanks to local Buyers
Private Investors Dominated the NoCO CRE Transactions during September 2023 Market Rent Growth in NoCO CRE has Ground Down to almost ZeroContact our advisors to see how they can help you with your property September commercial real estate transactions were quite...