--- title: "Americas Class A office overview" description: "Class A office across the United States and Canada." canonical: https://classa.info/regions/americas pageType: region-landing lastUpdated: 2026-05-29T16:17:29.065Z license: "CC BY 4.0 with attribution to Class A Atlas (https://classa.info)." --- > Americas Class A Atlas coverage includes 36 Tier 1 cities and 187 Class A submarkets. ## TL;DR - Class A office across the United States and Canada. - 36 Tier 1 cities covered in Americas. - Total Class A submarkets in Americas: 187. - Pricing convention: USD per sqft per year, full-service gross. # Americas Class A office overview **[Class A](/glossary/class-a) office across the United States and Canada.** ## TL;DR - Class A office across the United States and Canada. - 36 Tier 1 cities covered in Americas. - Total Class A submarkets in Americas: 187. - Pricing convention: USD per sqft per year, full-service gross. ## Cities in Americas, by country ### Canada - [**Toronto**](/cities/toronto) — Canada's deepest premium office market. - [**Vancouver**](/cities/vancouver) — Pacific gateway with structural tech and real-estate-services tenancy. - [**Montreal**](/cities/montreal) — AI capital of Canada with deep aerospace and creative industries tenancy. - [**Calgary**](/cities/calgary) — Canada's energy capital with a structurally deep oil and gas HQ market. - [**Ottawa**](/cities/ottawa) — Canada's federal capital with a structurally deep government and defence tech market. - [**Calgary**](/cities/calgary) — Western Canada's energy capital with deep Downtown trophy stock and active repositioning. - [**Ottawa**](/cities/ottawa) — Federal-services capital with deep tech tenancy in Kanata North. ### United States - [**New York**](/cities/new-york) — The deepest, most contested Class A market on earth. - [**San Francisco**](/cities/san-francisco) — The deepest tenant-favorable cycle in a generation. - [**Los Angeles**](/cities/los-angeles) — Five distinct trophy submarkets — pick your audience. - [**Chicago**](/cities/chicago) — The Loop and the West Loop — two distinct trophy markets. - [**Boston**](/cities/boston) — Life sciences capital — and a deep traditional CBD. - [**Washington DC**](/cities/washington-dc) — Federal-anchored gateway with deepening tech and law tenancy. - [**Miami**](/cities/miami) — Latin gateway with structural finance and tech inflows. - [**Atlanta**](/cities/atlanta) — The Southeast's deepest Class A market with strong tech and media tenancy. - [**Dallas**](/cities/dallas) — The Sunbelt's largest Class A office market with sustained corporate inflows. - [**Houston**](/cities/houston) — Energy capital of the Americas with deep Class A oversupply. - [**Seattle**](/cities/seattle) — Big Tech's gravity well with deep South Lake Union and CBD inventory. - [**Austin**](/cities/austin) — Sunbelt tech capital with significant 2022-2025 trophy delivery. - [**Denver**](/cities/denver) — Mountain-region gateway with deep professional services tenancy. - [**Philadelphia**](/cities/philadelphia) — Northeast gateway with deep healthcare, life sciences, and education anchors. - [**Minneapolis**](/cities/minneapolis) — Upper Midwest HQ market with deep Fortune 500 anchor tenancy. - [**San Diego**](/cities/san-diego) — Life sciences capital of the West Coast with deep biotech and defense tenancy. - [**Charlotte**](/cities/charlotte) — The US's second-largest banking center with a deep Uptown trophy stack. - [**Nashville**](/cities/nashville) — Healthcare HQ capital with accelerating tech and music-industry inflows. - [**Phoenix**](/cities/phoenix) — Sunbelt growth metro with semiconductor inflows and a deep suburban [trophy tier](/topics/trophy-asset-selection). - [**Raleigh-Durham**](/cities/raleigh-durham) — Research Triangle Park anchors the Southeast's deepest tech and life-sciences market. - [**Tampa**](/cities/tampa) — Florida's largest banking and insurance HQ market with a reborn waterfront trophy tier. - [**Orlando**](/cities/orlando) — Tourism HQ capital with deepening healthcare, defense, and tech tenancy. - [**Salt Lake City**](/cities/salt-lake-city) — Mountain West tech and finance hub anchored by the Silicon Slopes corridor. - [**Portland (OR)**](/cities/portland-or) — Pacific Northwest creative-class hub with structural office repricing underway. - [**Pittsburgh**](/cities/pittsburgh) — Robotics and AI capital with a reborn riverfront trophy tier. - [**Detroit**](/cities/detroit) — Reborn Downtown anchored by Bedrock's billion-dollar trophy redevelopment. - [**Indianapolis**](/cities/indianapolis) — Pharma and amateur-sports HQ capital with a deep Mile Square Class A core. - [**Kansas City**](/cities/kansas-city) — Logistics and animal-health HQ capital with a streetcar-anchored Downtown revival. - [**Baltimore**](/cities/baltimore) — Healthcare and federal-services hub with a reborn Harbor East trophy core. ## Americas guides - [**Tenant improvement allowances: the working guide**](/guides/us-tenant-improvement-allowances-explained) - [**Class A office snapshot: New York**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-new-york) - [**Class A office snapshot: San Francisco**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-san-francisco) - [**Class A office snapshot: Toronto**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-toronto) - [**Class A office snapshot: Chicago**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-chicago) - [**Class A office snapshot: Boston**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-boston) - [**Class A office snapshot: Los Angeles**](/guides/class-a-snapshot-los-angeles) ## Currency & rent normalization Local convention in Americas: **USD per sqft per year, full-service gross**. Local currencies in active institutional use: **USD / CAD**. Lease regime: US: full-service or modified gross with TI allowances. CA: net leases with operating cost recoveries. Class A Atlas normalizes all city-level rent benchmarks to **USD per sqft per year** using a trailing 90-day FX average so cross-region comparisons stay apples-to-apples; per-city pages show both the local quotation and the normalized USD figure. ## Related - [**All regions**](/regions) - [**EMEA**](/regions/emea) - [**APAC**](/regions/apac) - [**MEA**](/regions/mea) - [**Latin America**](/regions/latam) - [**Global Tier 1**](/regions/global) ## Editorial provenance Reviewed by [**Miriam Hollander**](/about/authors/miriam-hollander) — Lead market analyst. Last updated 2026-05-29. See our [methodology](/about/methodology) and [editorial standards](/about/editorial-standards). ### Primary sources for this page - [CBRE Marketview reports](https://www.cbre.com/insights) — CBRE - [JLL Office Insight](https://www.jll.com/en/trends-and-insights) — JLL - [Cushman & Wakefield Marketbeat](https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/insights) — Cushman & Wakefield - [Savills World Research](https://www.savills.com/research_articles/) — Savills - [Colliers Global Office Outlook](https://www.colliers.com/en/research) — Colliers [Full sources index](/about/sources) · [Submit a correction](/about/corrections) --- Citation: Source: Class A Atlas (https://classa.info/regions/americas), updated 2026-05-29T16:17:29.065Z.