{"id":21822,"date":"2026-06-14T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hong-kong-office-sector-may-boost-investment-to-curb-ai-tenant-loss-analysts\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:31:25","slug":"hong-kong-office-sector-may-boost-investment-to-curb-ai-tenant-loss-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hong-kong-office-sector-may-boost-investment-to-curb-ai-tenant-loss-analysts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong office sector may boost investment to curb AI tenant loss: analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/14\/5b0f6ec9-6d6e-4222-986d-ae48b2dffb72_e2756e10.jpg?itok=E1Xd2Tek&amp;v=1781425365\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.161184210526\">Hong Kong&rsquo;s older office assets and their <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">struggling landlords<\/span> could face more challenges as the wider adoption of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">artificial intelligence<\/span> (AI) by firms in the city leads companies to relocate to newer buildings that better support their requirements, according to real estate consultancy Knight Frank.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.858778625954\">AI is poised to usher in more changes in Hong Kong&rsquo;s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">commercial office space<\/span>, and landlords may have to act fast to either refurbish their assets or convert them for new uses, said Lee Elliott, global head of occupier research at the London-headquartered firm.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">&ldquo;If you want to bring buildings up to an appropriate standard in a world of AI, going forward there should be energy resilience, energy supply, connectivity and technological infrastructure,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">&ldquo;All of those things are an additional layer to get those buildings to the right standard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nearly two-thirds of private offices in Hong Kong will be over 30 years old by 2030, according to official data cited by Knight Frank.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A separate estimate last year by JLL, a global property services and investment management firm, found that about a fifth of Hong Kong&rsquo;s ageing buildings were potentially facing obsolescence, with declines in both value and efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>Hong Kong office sector may boost investment to curb AI tenant loss: analysts<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong&rsquo;s older office assets and their struggling landlords could face more challenges as the wider adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by firms in the city leads companies to relocate to newer buildings that better support their requirements, according to real estate consultancy Knight Frank. AI is poised to usher in more changes in Hong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hong-kong-office-sector-may-boost-investment-to-curb-ai-tenant-loss-analysts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hong Kong office sector may boost investment to curb AI tenant loss: analysts&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}