RCLCO, a leading national real estate strategy firm, first published an Economic Hot Spot map in 2013. At the time, the economy was recovering from the Great Financial Crisis at a very uneven pace across regions. The idea was to get a sense of where growth was currently happening and why. Based on trailing and forward 12-month indicators of factors such as growth, income levels, and economic structure, the map gave us a good indication of regional growth patterns.
In fact, the map turned out to be quite telling. Many of the high-ranking markets at the time were tech and energy related—and subsequently experienced substantial job growth that led to some of the hottest commercial real estate markets in the country, in terms of both demand and new construction. In fact, the top 15 large markets in our 2013 rankings accounted for 58% of net office absorption and 64% of new office construction in the 51 largest markets in the United States in 2014 and 2015. Click here for full story.
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