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.
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%.
Over the 12 months ending in September 2025, private-sector workers in Houston experienced the strongest wage gains of any major U.S. market. During that period of time, workers took home ...
The previous year was a return to form for both Dallas and Houston. Aided by strong tenant demand and a development community eager to see projects break ground, the two markets saw around 62 million ...