Banks To Continue Dumping Office Space

USBanker Magazine is featuring an article in its September issue discussing the impact of the current financial turmoil on office space vacancy rates. According to the article, New York’s Independent Budget Office is forecasting roughly 60,000 total job losses stemming from the credit crunch. The CEO of New York’s GVA office has estimated that as much as 3.7 million square feet of space can come back on the market in the next quarter alone as companies such as JP Morgan (Bear Stearns) dump or attempt to sublease space.

Of all the markets with the largest financial exposure (New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco), Orange County has been the hardest hit with 3-4 million square feet of space combing back online on top of the 8 million square feet of new construction. The vacancy rate there according to the article has risen a thousand basis points in one year alone.

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