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The AI has an impact on everything, it is therefore not surprising that the demand for technological talents specific to AI in certain cities feeds the property, residential and even detail demand.
Through the United States and Canada, the Technological Workers Basin with AI skills has increased by more than 50% from mid-2012 to mid-2010 to 517,000 workers, according to a LinkedIn data analysis. This talent is the most concentrated in the San Francisco Bay region, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Washington, DC, the first three represent 35% of the national total.
By just looking at growth, the New York metropolitan region added the most talent for AI technology in the past year by absolute figures (with 20,000 new workers qualified by AI). Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas -Fort Worth, Toronto and Washington, DC, have each seen 75% of annual slip gains in these workers – or more.
All this growth is not new jobs, but some are new skills, as technology workers have strengthened their capacities to carry out tasks and a development of AI systems. Some, however, entered the labor market with these skills.
“With this AI revolution, it was a fundamental game changer for the city of San Francisco, because it is really zero land for the AI revolution and where most of these large high -level companies like Openai are located,” said Colin Yasukochi, Executive Director of CBRE Tech Insights Center.
Silicon Valley was, of course, the initial heart of the technological sector, but AI seems to have longer members, reaching cities and sectors where basic technology is now retiring. This is due to the fact that AI Tech Talent is now in great demand by the so -called fire group – financial services, insurance and real estate. This is why Manhattan sees so much more requests for the rental of offices and apartments.
Financial service companies must improve their game because Fintech companies become much more competitive on the market, thanks to AI. Although the global technological industry has reduced, the financial services were some of the best hires of AI talents.
Unlike certain other types of technologies, which have become more distant, AI is still in its first stages of innovation. This has a direct impact on the functioning of technological talent. In the first half of 2025, technology companies represented 17% of the total American office rental activity, compared to 10% at the end of 2022.
According to CBRE, in the city of San Francisco, during the 2 and a half years, 1 of the 4 square feet of office space was rented by an IA company, according to CBRE.
“The AI is mainly office work, and they are in a way of return to the first days of technological innovation, where they are at the office five, six days a week and for long hours,” said Yasukochi. “It has certainly stimulated the request for office space.”
Talent infection on these technological markets also has a considerable impact on residential real estate, according to the CBRE report, which shows that apartments have increased on all the main AI technology markets.
The growth of the rents of the apartment from 2021 to 2024 in Manhattan was more than 14%, in DC by more than 12%, in Seattle by more than 7%and in San Francisco almost 6%.
Part of this is due to the fact that the technological wages of AI can cover the cost of rents on most of the highest cost markets, which CBRE is based on the approval of 30% of housing income.
In Manhattan, where the rents of the apartments are the highest, the wages of technological workers are such that the workers pay only 29% of their salary on rent. In the San Francisco Bay region and DC, it is as low as 19%.
“This idea that AI is obviously the future of technology, that it is just a little starting, it is still relatively early – it is another potential technological boom, and it pushes people to come in the cities where it happens, and that affects real estate markets,” said Yasukochi.