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.
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.
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. ...