JLL's 2025 U.S. and Canada Office Fit-Out Cost Guide reflects the two countries’ diverse markets, highlighting how emerging trends and design interact with regional factors to influence costs.

This comprehensive guide provides analysis of trends, cost drivers, and forward-looking perspectives. The guide offers crucial insights to help stakeholders plan successful offices in context of ongoing uncertainty.

As this report presents costs based on Q1 2025 data, it's important to recognize that current pricing may deviate from these figures due to the rapidly changing trade and policy environment.

Understanding costs in key cities can be critical to portfolio CAPEX planning and the implementation of corporate design requirements across regional locations. To understand the relative costs between cities, moderate-style medium- quality office fit-outs have been assessed against their respective national averages.

Navigating uncertainty through adaptive planning. The U.S. and Canadian fit-out markets are facing elevated uncertainty due to evolving trade policies, economic fluctuations, and shifting workplace dynamics. In this environment, capital planning is the best opportunity to stay proactive despite uncertainty:

• Focus on short-term, actionable steps that align with long-term goals
• Regularly reassess market conditions and adjust strategies accordingly
   

Capitalizing on the persistent demand for quality. Despite economic uncertainties, there is a continued demand for high-quality space that will be able to support business needs through change. Given a limited office pipeline and an uncertain timeline to replenishment:

• Invest strategically in upgrading existing spaces to meet evolving workplace standards
• Focus on creating environments that support employee well-being, productivity, and changing demand
   

Embrace long-term value drivers and trend. The gap between base and high quality spend continues to narrow due to continued increases in the acceptable floor of tech readiness. These tools make for better workplaces and enable better planning:
 

• Align fit-out projects with long-term corporate goals and iterate using data analytics and performance metrics
• Work with partners that can evaluate emerging technologies and consider their long-term value in context of specific goals

This guide is part of JLL’s newly launched Global Office Fit-Out Cost Guide 2025, bringing together JLL’s expertise and data across regions, and enhancing our Office Fit-out Cost Guides. In comparison to prior versions of JLL’s U.S. and Canada Fit-Out Cost Guide, M&E services are now reported as a unique cost category, to allow for global variations and requirements within this. Inclusions under Security, IT & AV works have also varied slightly from previous years, although still reflecting current typical fit-out requirements and costs. For more information on the costs for fitting-out offices across the U.S. and Canada, or to understand how these costs have changed over time, and how to plan for potential future changes, reach out to your regional PDS team or Research lead, listed below.