From Cubicles to Curation, A Class Consensus Emerges

Toronto’s office market has undeniably entered a period of recovery, but the asset class that has emerged post-pandemic is starkly different than the cubicle-characterized world workers knew in the before times.

Perhaps the starkest difference to commercial real estate pros is the growing divide between class distinctions. The gap not only grows between the As, the Bs and the Cs, but the disparity from A to AAA becomes more pronounced with each quarterly report.

As “flight to quality” transitions from a trend to a standard, and as the benchmark for the best buildings ascends higher in the eyes of landlords and tenants alike, Green Street News asked five office experts what is considered a Class-A property today.

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