AUSTIN—A healthy influx of high-tech employment has played amajor role in the recovery of the U.S. office market, says a recentreport from CBRE Group Inc., with Austinaccounting for the sixth-best market for rent growth in thecountry.
Austin has seen a double-digit rent growth over the past twoyears, according to the report, titled “U.S. Tech-Twenty: MeasuringOffice Market Impact.”
The research tracks high-tech employment and office marketconditions in 20 tech-oriented office markets across the U.S., andfound a strong correlation between high-tech job growth andaccelerating office rents. From Q2 2012 to Q2 2014, Austinexperienced 34.2 percent growth in high-tech jobs, while officerents grew by 12.2 percent during the same period.
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