Question 1

Office-to-residential conversion: what kills deals in due diligence?

Accepted Answer

Three screens before anything else: Floor plate depth — anything much past 90 feet window-to-window leaves you with dark bedrooms or donut corridors that destroy efficiency. Plumbing risers — office cores cluster wet stacks centrally; residential wants them distributed. Retrofitting risers through occupied-floor slabs…

Question 2

Which office buildings are actually good conversion candidates?

Accepted Answer

Three hard screens, in order. Floor plate depth — past roughly 90 feet window-to-window and you get dark interiors no layout fixes. Plumbing — office cores cluster wet stacks centrally; residential wants them distributed, and re-running risers is where budgets die. Curtain wall — if it can't open or be cheaply…

Questions & Answers

Office-to-residential conversion: what kills deals in due diligence?

Which office buildings are actually good conversion candidates?