Office-to-Residential Conversions

If offices are shrinking, they can turn it into a residential building.

This is one way to make use of the excess of unused office space.

It seems kinda weird to build a lot of office space in a city with fantastic views and climate. Most of this square footage is probably just vacant most of the time. Just repurpose office to residential en-masse and build office blocks in eg Oakland or neighboring burbs (which could really use the revenue).

the problem is office buildings aren't designed to be good living quarters. https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/07/28/should-dcs-empty-of... is a good overview of the issues.

That would actually require demolishing them and building residential buildings from scratch. Most office spaces are not designed to be inhabitable 24/7, they would suck as apartments.

Turning office buildings into apartments or small businesses (or both) could be a good solution. there's a severe lack of housing in a lot of cities in many countries

What % of office buildings do you think can be converted into residential?

Yeah, but many offices are likely to be converted to other uses, rather than persist with partial occupation. Hotel, residential etcPeople often say it’s cost prohibitive, but it’s been done many times before, and valuations of Offices will get so depressed that conversions begin to look very lucrative

Big office buildings are basically deprecated at this point, time to figure out how to convert them to residential.

well, as a counter point, it could be a huge win for real estate if given they could convert the office space into apartments for people which is much needed. I know these buildings aren't setup in regards to plumbing and what not, but we can adapt.