Office vacancy rates nationwide hit a five - year peak during 2002's first three months, 14 percent in the Central Business District, 20 percent in the suburbs, according to recent data published by Cushman & Wakefield, among the world's biggest real estate service companies.
In the fourth quarter of 2012, the
vacancy rate at medical
office properties
nationwide averaged 11 percent, according to research by Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.