Asking Rents for Class A Office Buildings

When determining the value of an office building, appraisers benefit from understanding rents for comparable buildings. This map shows Class A rents for buildings in Baltimore.

One Year Change in Asking Rents

This map illustrates the way GIS combines place with time to understand trends in the commercial real estate market. Similar to a weather map that shows changes in temperature over time, this "heat map" conveys one-year changes in asking rents for the Baltimore market. Bright green areas, for example, experienced rising values, while areas in dark red experienced the deepest declines.