{"id":1004089994,"date":"2014-01-17T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004089994"},"modified":"2022-12-06T04:55:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:55:20","slug":"office-expense-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/office-expense-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding the Line on Office Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners and managers of private-sector office buildings significantly trimmed costs related to utilities, security and roads and grounds\u00a0from 2012 to 2013. According to the\u00a0Building Owners and Managers Association International and Kingsley Associates, security expenses declined 14.5 percent and utility costs fell 12.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Roads and grounds expenses make up only about 2 percent of office operating budgets on average, but those costs dropped 14 percent year over year. As the chart below shows, other expense categories held steady or posted a slight decline.<\/p>\n<p>For more about smart budgeting strategies, be sure to read &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/digital.commercialsearch.com\/news\/publication\/?i=192984&amp;p=40\">Hold the Line<\/a>&#8221; in the February issue of CPE.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004090133\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/01\/CPE_Private_Office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004090133\" data-attachment-id=\"1004090133\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/office-expense-trends\/cpe_private_office\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/01\/CPE_Private_Office.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"450,334\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CPE_Private_Office\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Source: Building Owners and Managers Association International\/Kingsley Associates, &#8220;2013 Experience Exchange Report,&#8221; June 2013.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/01\/CPE_Private_Office.jpg?w=450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1004090133\" alt=\"Source: Building Owners and Managers Association International\/Kingsley Associates, &quot;2013 Experience Exchange Report,&quot; June 2013.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/01\/CPE_Private_Office.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/01\/CPE_Private_Office.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/01\/CPE_Private_Office.jpg?resize=300,223 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004090133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Building Owners and Managers Association International\/Kingsley Associates, &#8220;2013 Experience Exchange Report,&#8221; June 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners and managers of private-sector office buildings significantly trimmed costs related to utilities, security and roads and grounds\u00a0from 2012 to 2013. According to the\u00a0Building Owners and Managers Association International and Kingsley Associates, security expenses declined 14.5 percent and utility costs fell 12.4 percent. Roads and grounds expenses make up only about 2 percent of office&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":1004090133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004089994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Holding the Line on Office Expenses - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/office-expense-trends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holding the Line on Office Expenses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Owners and managers of private-sector office buildings significantly trimmed costs related to utilities, security and roads and grounds\u00a0from 2012 to 2013. 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