Leveraged office equity trades on the Fed, not the AI tenant.
At 10–14.5x leverage with the ten-year above 5%, office REITs sell off after EPS beats while AI leasing sets records in their own two anchor metros — duration and credit position, not tenants, set the price.
The same conclusion keeps arriving from across the workspace's research — 2 topics independently instantiate this theme. Filter the evidence by where it came from:
SL Green falls 11.8% on 14.5x leverage despite an EPS beat and AI-driven leasing records — office equity trading on the Fed's rate path, not the tenant.
SLG raised FFO guidance and beat amid record AI leasing yet trades oversold on leverage and a 5.34% ten-year — duration and credit position, not tenants, set the price.
All three office REITs beat Q2 EPS yet trade on the Fed's hike and a ~5% ten-year compressing yield-spread valuations, regardless of tenant demand.