The global gap between target and actual office utilization just hit its lowest point since the pandemic — 18 percentage points, down from 25 a year ago. That sounds like progress, but for facility managers it is a warning.
In January 2026 Taiwan started charging data centers a tiered electricity tariff — discounts for PUE under 1.3, surcharges up to 20% for the inefficient — while regulators across APAC quietly rewrote the deal: you no longer just buy grid capacity…
PropTech capital is no longer rewarding software that helps your facilities team work faster — it is rewarding software that does the work without them.
For most of the last decade, AI-driven HVAC optimization was sold as an ROI story — "save 20-35% on cooling, pay it back in a year." In Taiwan, that pitch just became obsolete.
Singapore's Mandatory Energy Improvement (MEI) regime came into force in Q3 2025, and it changes the question facility managers should be asking. The old question was "Should we pursue a green certification?" The new one is "Is our building…
CBRE's 2026 benchmark shows average peak office utilization just crossed 80% globally — beating the long-standing >65% target for the first time since the pandemic.
The grid is short of capacity, and the queue to add more is now the binding constraint — a new interconnection can take up to three times as long as building the thing that needs the power. That has flipped the economics of building flexibility.
PropTech VC hit a record $16.7B in 2025 (+67.9% YoY) and ran at a $1.7B-per-month pace into 2026 — but the headline number hides a structural shift. The largest owners are no longer buying proptech; they're building it.
The interesting question in Building-as-a-Service for 2026 is no longer "can the platform read all my systems?" Every credible vendor now ingests BMS, IoT, metering, and access control into one cloud layer.