The Greater Victoria office market is performing steadily throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. With shocks to office markets globally, Victoria has seen a marginal increase in office vacancy of 2 bps.
- Greater Victoria office investment for the first 9 months of 2020 compared to this same period in 2019 is down 35% by total transaction volume. Transaction volume per dollar sold in 2020 is down 70% compared to the first 3 quarters of 2019.
- The vacancy for Class A buildings is at a healthy 4.18% with no shifts in absorptions.
- Class B+ at 4% with positive absorption for the quarter of 6.5K SF.