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Both tenants and investors are increasingly focusing on office building’s carbon footprints when considering new deals.

The company raised rents by 7.9 percent on new leases, the highest increase on record.

Nuveen Real Estate plans to offer its tenant firms everything from concierges to gyms to help refill its office buildings.