From Content Contributor, Appspace. Your role as a corporate real estate (CRE) leader has shifted. You aren’t just managing square footage anymore. You’re an architect of the talent lifecycle and a strategic partner in business growth. While the return-to-office debates have cooled, a new challenge has emerged: your physical and digital environments are still living in silos.

Corporate real estate (CRE) leaders aren’t struggling to see what’s coming next. Across the industry, the direction is increasingly clear. Artificial intelligence, data intelligence, and evolving workplace expectations are reshaping how organizations think about their portfolios and the role real estate plays in business strategy.

The competition for talent has intensified in recent years, but the reasons why have shifted. Today, the real comparison employees make isn’t just between companies and salary, but the workplace experience and location on offer. This was a topic much debated at Savills panel discussion at the CoreNet Global Portfolio Management Partner Webinar that considered topics including the expectations on the workplace and how to attract and maintain the best employees.

From our Location Strategy Thought Leader Partner, Colliers. Based on insights from the Colliers-sponsored poll at the 2025–2026 CoreNet Global Summit events across EMEA, North America, and APAC, four key themes were identified that are shaping the corporate real estate (CRE) industry.

Corporate real estate (CRE) leaders aren’t struggling to see what’s coming next. Across the industry, the direction is increasingly clear. Artificial intelligence, data intelligence, and evolving workplace expectations are reshaping how organizations think about their portfolios and the role real estate plays in business strategy.

The role of strategic design is not to force interaction, but to create the conditions where collaboration is chosen.

From our Location Strategy Thought Leader Partner, Colliers. Colliers’ exclusive poll at the 2026 CoreNet Global Summit APAC reveals three key forces redefining corporate real estate (CRE) and the region’s opportunity to lead the transformation. We surveyed more than 170 senior industry leaders across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, spanning occupiers, service providers and investors.

Contradictory or conflicting lease language appears far more often than many tenants realize.

Despite decades of advocacy and investment, women remain drastically underrepresented across the construction sector.

From our Thought Leader Partner, Cushman & Wakefield. Cushman & Wakefield’s 2026 Office Fit Out Cost Guides provide construction cost benchmarks for occupiers across 144 cities worldwide, spanning the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Whether planning a basic, collaborative or advanced hybrid workplace, the guides offer detailed cost breakdowns to support capital planning, workplace transformation and relocation decisions.

From our Thought Leader Partner, Gensler. The workplace creates the conditions for people to learn, exchange ideas, build skills, and experiment together in ways no digital tool can replicate. As AI becomes more embedded in daily work, the office becomes even more valuable as a place where knowledge, experimentation, and human insight come together.

The office is increasingly being redefined as a tool to support organizational performance, learning, innovation, and connection.