New Delhi [India], March 5 (ANI): India continues to drive the regional workplace market, establishing itself as a dominant demand centre and a key location for investments. According to knowledge from Colliers’ Asia Pacific Office Market Insights February 2026 report, whole workplace leasing throughout Asia’s 11 key markets reached 9.8 million sq. metres in 2025, marking an 11 per cent year-on-year improve.
‘The nation alone accounted for almost 68% of whole leasing and 55% of latest provide throughout the highest 11 APAC markets, whereas additionally recording the strongest progress in workplace investments in 2025, highlighting its scale and resilience. Backed by regular financial progress, a powerful occupier base, and increasing GCCs, India’s workplace market is well-positioned to maintain its progress momentum. Looking forward, sustained demand and institutional curiosity are anticipated to assist strong absorption and reinforce India’s place as a most well-liked vacation spot for long-term workplace investments,’ mentioned Vimal Nadar, National Director & Head of Research, Colliers India.
As per the report, India, Mainland China, and Japan drove over 90 per cent of the whole demand throughout the 12 months. While India led the quantity, markets such because the Philippines, New Zealand, and Hong Kong recorded multi-fold progress in demand, reflecting bettering enterprise confidence and renewed enlargement from decrease bases. Institutional investments within the workplace section throughout the area rose 21 per cent year-on-year to USD 58.6 billion in 2025.
New provide throughout the 11 APAC markets surged by 19 per cent to 9.6 million sq. metres in 2025. India, Mainland China, and Singapore drove 82 per cent of this new provide.
Arpit Mehrotra, Managing Director, Office Services, Colliers India, mentioned, ‘Office demand throughout key APAC markets continues to strengthen regardless of ongoing geopolitical frictions, with H2 2025 leasing at 5.3 million sq. meters (57 million sq. toes), up 19% in comparison with H1 2025. Looking forward to 2026, each demand and provide are anticipated to stay strong, supported by regular occupier enlargement and a choice for high-quality, future-ready workplaces.’
The report famous that throughout the first half of 2026, ‘each demand and provide are anticipated to stay sturdy,’ underpinned by sturdy occupier enlargement and choice for high-quality, future-ready workplace areas. At the identical time, as emptiness tightens in prime places and provide stays uneven, ‘occupiers are more likely to turn out to be extra deliberate, selective and aggressive of their actual property choices.’
Mike Davis, Managing Director of Occupier Services, Asia Pacific at Colliers, mentioned, ‘This 12 months we see workplace market momentum throughout Asia Pacific is holding agency. With competitors rising in prime belongings and emptiness tightening in key markets, organisations have gotten extra deliberate and strategic about how, the place and after they safe area. Businesses aren’t merely returning to the workplace; they’re recalibrating their portfolios. We are seeing corporations make fewer strikes, however higher ones.’ (ANI)