Charlotte State of the Market

Why You Should Attend Charlotte State of the Market

Why This Matters:

CBRE's 2026 North America Investor Intentions Survey ranks the Queen City #5 among all U.S. metros for capital investment, rating Charlotte amongst the largest and most desired CRE markets in the country.  With sustained job creation, a diversifying employment base, and over $5.4 billion in active development and reinvestment in the urban core alone, the conditions exist for elevated, continued investment. 

However, persistent challenges remain. Access to capital continues to waver as economic and geopolitic events unfold, creating new variables in whether projects actually pencil and break ground. Industrial has come off a historic supply surge and is showing signs of stabilization, with Class A leasing hitting a six-year high in 2025, even as manufacturing's resurgence across North Carolina is rewriting the demand story. And office, long the market's most debated asset class, is finding new life less as a standalone product but as an anchor within the mixed-use, amenity-rich environments that tenants and investors are looking for.

This event will detail where are the savviest investors are placing bets, and the corridors set to define Charlotte's growth in coming years. It will outline what comes next for the region's industrial sector, and how office, workplace and mixed-use move together in tandem, not at odds. Bisnow's Charlotte State of the Market brings together the region's most active developers, investors, and industry leaders to answer these questions, and to put you in position to land your next deal.

What You'll Learn:

• Where institutional and private capital is concentrating in Charlotte, the asset types that are winning the competition for investment dollars, and how the financing environment has shifted heading into the back half of 2026
• How entitlement timelines, zoning flexibility, and site feasibility are increasingly making or breaking deals before capital ever commits
• Where Charlotte's industrial market sits, and what Class A leasing momentum and large-block demand signal about the road ahead
• How the manufacturing resurgence across North Carolina is reshaping industrial demand profiles, and what developers and investors are doing to get ahead of it
• How Charlotte's most active office submarkets are recovering, and why mixed-use has become the defining factor separating thriving office product
• What the convergence of office recovery and mixed-use momentum means for the next wave of development investment across Charlotte's most sought-after corridors

For questions regarding content, speaking and sponsorship opportunities please email our Southeast Director of Operations, Brandon Elsasser, at brandon.elsasser@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact sabrina.cole@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

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