For the past several years, ESG conversations have often centered on ambitious commitments, regulatory developments, and long-term sustainability targets. While those priorities remain important, the conversation itself is changing.

Corporate real estate decisions have always been influenced by broader business priorities, but the factors shaping those decisions continue to evolve.

From our Content Contributor Partner, Appspace. Real estate is one of the largest line items on any corporate balance sheet. Yet many of the decisions that govern it – how much space to keep, which leases to renew, where to consolidate – are still being made using instincts dressed up as data.

As hybrid work reshapes how—and where—people use office space, a growing inventory of underperforming Class B and C office buildings has become impossible to ignore.

For years, conversations around the workplace centered on a single question: how do we get employees back into the office? However, even that question is starting to miss the point.

One of the most important conversations in the built environment is only just beginning to gather proper momentum – neurodiversity.

As we reach a new crux of technology-driven innovation, it’s an exciting time to consider how organizations can continue to encourage human interaction and drive employee engagement.

From our Thought Leader Partner, Gensler. Two decades of workplace research surveying nearly 125,000 respondents across 16 countries reveal a striking consistency in what workers need to do their best work. Across industries and roles, employees prioritize the places that help them connect, focus, restore, and move through their day with ease.

From our Thought Leader Partner, Cushman & Wakefield. A year has passed since the implementation of tariffs that affected materials and products, including many inputs to CRE construction. We wanted to quantify the potential implications to U.S. CRE construction resulting from materials price changes and shifts in domestic and foreign supply.

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.