North America's data center market surged to unprecedented levels in 2025, driven by hyperscale cloud operators and AI workloads that pushed absorption and lease rates to historic highs, according to CBRE.
Asia-Pacific commercial real estate is entering 2026 with renewed momentum as investors and occupiers reposition portfolios around income growth, even as the region's broader economic expansion cools.
U.S. commercial real estate lending surged at the end of 2025, signaling renewed momentum across large segments of the property finance market as interest-rate volatility eased and banks re-entered the arena with greater conviction.
Investors are preparing to deploy fresh capital into U.S. commercial real estate in 2026, encouraged by stabilizing asset values, improving operating fundamentals and growing confidence that borrowing costs are nearing a peak, according to a new survey from CBRE Group Inc.