[Webinar] Rethinking Rent Growth in Commercial Real Estate: The Columbia CompStak Rent Index

Watch the webinar on your schedule. Available on-demand starting April 22.

We’ve never had a clean rent benchmark. The Columbia CompStak Rent Index (CCRI) changes that. Introducing a new lens for understanding what rent is actually doing in your markets.

The problem with rent data: Face rent has been telling the wrong story.

1. Concessions are growing and being ignored

Tenant improvement allowances and free rent periods have widened the gap between face rent and what landlords actually collect. Most benchmarks don’t capture this.

2. Quality mix distorts market averages

When Trophy towers sign big deals, they lift the average even if mid-tier assets are softening. CCRI holds quality constant to isolate true rent movement.

3. Markets are telling opposite stories

In some markets, face rent is up while net effective rent is flat or declining. Without the right index, you’re making decisions on incomplete data.

What you’ll learn in this webinar:

• Why face rent is no longer enough: Understand how TI allowances and free rent periods have created a growing gap between headline rents and what landlords actually collect.
• How constant-quality regression works: Get a plain-language breakdown of the methodology behind CCRI: how NER, concessions, and CQR combine into a cleaner benchmark.
• Ways to apply CCRI in your work: From portfolio benchmarking to building-level operating decisions to individual rent prediction, see how the index changes real workflows.
• Where averages and reality diverge most: Live examples from Dallas and Manhattan show exactly how conventional rent indices can point in the opposite direction from true market conditions.
• How to access CCRI data going forward: See the index in action on the CompStak platform and learn how national and MSA-level updates will be published on a regular cadence.