Regional Markets
Give Top-400 a visible home: rewrite stale markets/_index.md category landing page + cross-link development-regions.md to the Regional Markets ranking system
@@ -1,23 +1,30 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 title: "Markets" title: "The Markets" slug: markets category: markets type: topic content_type: topic quality: complete short_description: "Commercial real estate sector analysis and geographic market summaries synthesizing institutional research on office supply and demand, retail network expansion, and regional property dynamics." short_description: "The places, ranked: the Top 400 suburban markets in North America and Europe, the tier and co-location indices behind the ranking, and profile pages for select markets." status: active bcsc_class: current-fact language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC last_edited: 2026-06-26 last_edited: 2026-07-04 editor: pointsav-engineering paired_with: _index.es.md --- Markets covers research and analysis of commercial real estate sectors and specific geographic markets. Articles in this category synthesize institutional research findings from trade publications and financial media on office building supply and demand, retail network expansion strategies, and regional commercial property dynamics. Market summaries reference only factual findings — occupancy trends, announced expansions, sector indicators — sourced and cited from the institutional research record. The Markets covers the places, ranked. This category holds the screening universe behind site selection: the [[atlas-top-400-north-america|Top 400 Regional Markets — North America]] and the [[atlas-top-400-europe|Top 400 — Europe]], two ranked lists of the highest-scoring suburban commuter-belt markets on each continent, four hundred each, scored by [[about-regional-markets-system|a composite of retail co-location tier and civic-anchor presence]]. Country-level co-location indices and tier indices sit alongside the two lists and supply the underlying cluster data the ranking is built from. A small, growing set of individual market profile pages illustrates the shape a full market article takes — population and economic context, submarkets, and the co-location clusters driving the score. The two Top 400 lists already cover all four hundred markets each; individual profile pages exist for a sample of them today, with more commissioned over time as the programme grows.