In the commercial building sector, hotel and office occupancy ratios have peaked.

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Office occupancy costs increased by an average 3.6 percent globally, led by Asia Pacific (7.8 percent) and the Americas thanks primarily to Brazil (5 percent).

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The recession clobbered occupancy of office, industrial and retail space, which pulled rents down.

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The disappearance of a host of big companies in the past decade, gobbled up by rivals or seduced by the suburbs, means that occupancy rates in prime office buildings have sunk to just under 20%.

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The table to the right shows the total occupancy cost for the best office space in the central business district of 41 cities.

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