Itziar Aguirre is the Senior Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com. She analyzes commercial and residential real estate trends across Houston and Beaumont. She provides insights into home prices, inventory levels, rental conditions, a...
Itziar Aguirre is the Senior Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com. She analyzes commercial and residential real estate trends across Houston and Beaumont. She provides insights into home prices, inventory levels, rental conditions, and economic factors shaping the housing market. She has more than a decade of commercial real estate experience and holds a Master of Science degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and an MBA in accounting and finance from the University of St. Thomas. Her work has appeared in the Real Deal, Newsweek and the Houston Chronicle.
Vacancy in Houston's Brookhollow-Inwood submarket is expected to top 13% in the coming months, reaching its highest level in roughly 15 years as thousands of newly built apartments come online faster ...
Houston's medical office market is showing signs of stabilization after absorbing one of the largest development waves in its history, with strong tenant demand helping offset the impact of nearly 1 ...
Houston is emerging as a major data center growth market, leveraging Texas' abundant power resources, low electricity costs and growing demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing ...
According to preliminary Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the Houston metropolitan area lost 5,200 jobs through the first seven months of 2026, as gains in a handful of industries were offset by ...
Houston's Galleria-Uptown apartment market is becoming a tale of two markets. While luxury buildings continue to attract renters, many older properties are losing residents, driving vacancy to record ...
The Westchase-Woodlake apartment market, one of Houston’s largest multifamily submarkets, continues to navigate challenging conditions as elevated vacancy, weak demand and negative rent growth weigh ...
Though demand for apartments in the Southeast remains high, the historic wave of apartment construction, despite winding down, is having an outsize effect on market performance.
Houston's economy continued to add jobs through the first five months of 2026, but growth was concentrated in a handful of industries. While several sectors expanded, others posted meaningful ...
Construction activity is accelerating across Houston's Southwest Far industrial submarket, where developers have already broken ground on 50% more space during the first half of 2026 than they did ...
Houston’s industrial leasing market surged to a record-setting first half of 2026, with preliminary figures exceeding 29 million square feet of new leases signed.
Houston’s East–Southeast Far area, long considered the backbone of the region’s industrial market, is facing an unusual imbalance: demand remains resilient, but rents are falling at the fastest pace ...
Multifamily construction in one of Atlanta's fastest-growing pockets has slowed sharply, marking a turning point after several years of heavy development.
Rent growth in Cinco Ranch remains decisively negative as of the second quarter, declining 2.5% year over year as of the second quarter and underscoring mounting pressure across West Houston’s ...
Sugar Land’s industrial market is entering a transitional phase, with rent growth falling to its weakest level in more than two decades even as tenant demand remains resilient.
Unlike the broader Houston office market, where vacancy has largely stabilized over the past two years, Greenway Plaza continues to see rising vacancy driven by persistent tenant move‑outs.