2025 Predictions in Corporate Real Estate

Rakesh Kishan delves into the transformative trends that impacted Corporate Real Estate (CRE) in 2024. Followed by exploring the three pivotal forces set to revolutionize CRE in 2025 and how CRE organizations can strategically navigate these shifts. Finally, Rakesh shares insights on how CRE leaders can seize the challenges and opportunities that the future holds.

Trascent 2025 Predictions in Corporate Real Estate

What trend has had the biggest impact on Corporate Real Estate in 2024?

In a post COVID 2024, the three trends we saw in corporate real estate were:

1. Becoming far more flexible and nimble real estate organizations that can tailor their services to the post hybrid world.
2. An enhanced focus on the digitalization and technology enablement of real estate services.
3. A concerted effort to drive better quality data in corporate real estate for enhanced decision making.

What do you foresee as big drivers of change for Corporate Real Estate in 2025?

The big drivers of change in 2025 for the corporate real estate sector will be driven by the requirements of their internal clients, business customers, and business units. We see a big shift in supply chain priorities, consumer segments and in technology enablement of services. Therefore, corporate real estate will have to:

1. Become much more flexible and nimble in terms of responding to client needs.
2. Offer technology enabled services for a richer experience as well as greater efficiency.
3. Develop much stronger data analytics and data management capabilities.

How can CRE leaders prepare themselves for the challenges and opportunities ahead?

CRE leaders can better meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead by building stronger relationships with business units and key executives and building the strategies that meet internal client requirements. To do this, CRE leaders will have to harness the right talent, leadership, technology, data and the right partners to help deliver these objectives.