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Residential demand is made of people who have already decided to live somewhere. It forms early, it is broad, and it is forgiving: a family will accept a compromise on the unit to get the community.
Office demand is made of businesses who have decided to operate somewhere. It forms later, it is narrower, and it is unforgiving in a specific way — a floorplate that does not suit the way a company works is not a compromise, it is a rejection.
That changes what the buyer is underwriting. In residential, the risk is that the thing you bought is easy to replicate next door. In commercial, the risk is that the thing you bought is hard to let at all.
Neither is the better asset. They are different instruments, and the mistake is not choosing the wrong one — it is choosing one while reading the other one's rules.
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