Introducing our new metro employment forecasts

Our new metro employment forecasts point to underperformance by the six major metros in the next five years, both in terms of total and office-type employment. In contrast, Austin, Dallas and Phoenix are amongst the winners in both. These views will be reflected in our occupier demand forecasts for the apartments and offices sectors respectively, improving our ability to identify rental growth prospects across metros in our upcoming Metro Outlooks. This Update forms part of a set of publications that extend our existing office and apartment market analysis beyond the six major metros. This month we will be publishing our new, expanded metro forecasts for the office and apartment sectors, which will cover 17 US metros in total. Last week we published our new Metros Chartbook for the first time.