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.
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.
Office landlords are increasingly relying on move‑in‑ready suites as a way to compete in an office market reshaped by smaller occupiers and shorter decision timelines.
Houston’s industrial rent growth turned modestly negative in the second quarter of 2026 for the first time since late 2010, to negative 0.1% year over year, reflecting a market that has shifted from ...
Vacancy in the Southwest Outer Loop industrial area has risen to its highest level in more than a decade as of the second quarter of 2026, reflecting a multi‑year reset rather than a single cyclical ...
Concessions remain a key factor across Texas multifamily markets as elevated supply keeps competition intense and limits landlords’ pricing power heading into the spring leasing season.
Beaumont, Texas’ population grew by just 200 residents in the year ending July 1, 2025, a sharp slowdown from the gain of more than 1,600 residents recorded in 2024, according to the latest U.S. ...
Retail leasing activity in Houston has been resilient in the early months of 2026, with preliminary first‑quarter leasing totaling 2.6 million square feet, about 10% above the 2015 to 2019 ...
More than 67,000 multifamily units have been completed in Houston since 2023, and roughly 18,000 remain vacant, underscoring the scale of the supply overhang.
As Texas multifamily markets work to find balance, slowing international in-migration in the state’s largest markets could disrupt demand for multifamily housing.
Houston grew its metropolitan population by 126,720 people on a net basis between 2024 and 2025, according to recently released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Rent growth in Honolulu’s industrial market has cooled significantly over the past three years and now trails historical norms. As of the first quarter of 2026, rents turned negative for the first ...
Preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Beaumont, Texas, a city on the Gulf Coast between Houston and Lafayette, Louisiana, along I-10, added just 700 jobs in 2025, its ...
As traditional soft-goods retailers continue to reduce their footprints, many landlords are prioritizing uses that drive consistent foot traffic and cannot be replicated online.