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.
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.
Retail property sales across the United States showed a noticeable shift toward large, centrally located markets in 2025. Chicago, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth posted the highest totals of traded ...
Construction starts in the Lake Houston Area reached a five‑year high in 2025, suggesting some developers are positioning themselves ahead of the next cycle.
Beaumont added just 700 jobs in 2025, its weakest performance since 2020 and below the long‑term average of roughly 855 jobs per year, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...
Encouraged by steady, strong demand, industrial developers are returning to the Highway 290 and Tomball Parkway submarket despite a challenging financing market.
The Spring Branch multifamily market is facing record‑high vacancies, driven by a major supply surge in recent years. As of the first quarter of 2026, the vacancy rate is 13.4%.