Brian Anderson is the Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com. He analyzes commercial and residential real estate trends across seven Midwest states, including Minnesota, where he is based. He provides insights into home prices, invento...
Brian Anderson is the Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com. He analyzes commercial and residential real estate trends across seven Midwest states, including Minnesota, where he is based. He provides insights into home prices, inventory levels, rental conditions, and economic factors shaping the housing market. Before joining CoStar, Brian was a senior valuation analyst with KPMG’s Economic and Valuation Services Group. He has also worked CBRE’s Valuation and Advisory Services Group and Ernst & Young, in the banking and capital markets sector. Brian is also a certified public accountant. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Twin Cities Business Magazine, Minnesota Star Tribune, and Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Brian earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota.
Madison, Wisconsin, closed 2025 with a modest 0.4% year‑over‑year employment increase, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data, a clear sign that the area’s post‑pandemic surge has ...
The Grand Rapids metropolitan area ended 2025 with total nonfarm payroll growth of 0.5%, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Employment continued to expand, but at a much slower ...
According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Milwaukee’s nonfarm payrolls fell by 7,900 jobs year over year in December, a 0.9% decline that marks a clear break from 2024’s flat but ...
Total nonfarm employment in Des Moines increased by 1,100 jobs year over year in December, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data, marking a clear inflection after much of late 2024 ...
According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data, total nonfarm employment in Omaha fell by 2,800 jobs, or 0.5%, year over year in 2025. That pullback marks a clear inflection from the 3,200 ...
Detroit’s labor market enters 2026 largely treading water. According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data, total nonfarm employment rose by just 300 jobs year over year in December. That ...
Total nonfarm payrolls in the Twin Cities rose just 0.6% in 2025, but that job growth put it in the top 15 metropolitan areas across the United States.
According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Consumer Price Index release, inflation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region is up 2.5% over the past year as of November, maintaining its ...
Investment sales activity across Madison continued to firm through the first nine months of 2025, but the recovery remains uneven and highly selective by property type.
Milwaukee’s investment market continued to regain traction through the first nine months of 2025, with overall sales volume reaching a three-year high, though the recovery remains selective and ...
Commercial real estate sales volume in Lincoln, Nebraska, reached its second-highest level through the first nine months of any year since CoStar began tracking the data in 2007, trailing only 2022.
Omaha’s investment market continued to search for its footing through the first nine months of 2025, with activity defined by discipline and selectivity.
Capital markets activity in Des Moines accelerated sharply through the third quarter of 2025. The metro area recorded its strongest third quarter for commercial real estate sales since CoStar began ...
Detroit’s commercial real estate market gained momentum in the third quarter of 2025, but the rebound remains cautious and focused. Investors are returning where prices make sense, income streams ...
Minneapolis recorded its strongest third quarter for commercial real estate sales volume in four years, with more than $1.8 billion in properties traded across the multifamily, office, industrial and ...
While the broader office sector continues to struggle with record-high vacancies and falling values, medical office space across the Twin Cities is quietly experiencing its strongest run in nearly a ...
Des Moines, Iowa’s labor market continues to soften, with total nonfarm payrolls contracting by 0.6% year over year in August, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
The unemployment rate for the Twin Cities metropolitan area rose to 4.1% in August, up from 3.3% 12 months ago and the highest level in over four years, according to the latest Bureau of Labor ...
The multifamily market in the Lincoln metropolitan area, home to Nebraska’s capital city, enters the final quarter of the year at an inflection point, with vacancy rising to 7.4% — roughly matching a ...