How Office Investors Are Preparing for 2020

Tim Lee

Investors across asset classes are preparing for an economic slowdown in 2020, if not a full recession, and most are strategizing to hedge against a potential downturn. For office investors, tenant diversity is a key way to mitigate risk in the coming year. Olive Hill Group, for example, is focusing on curating the right tenant mix now to prepare for slowing economic growth and how it could impact industries differently.

“We see it more as a slowdown than a recession. We are making a concerted effort to curate our tenant base with a mix of flex and traditional office space to meet the demand for a wide variety of users,” Tim Lee, principal at Olive Hill Group, tells GlobeSt.com. “For example, in addition to the co working space available at our building at 520 Broadway in Santa Monica, we just signed Goodwin Proctor, a law firm which services tech and media clients, to a lease for an entire floor.”