Chuck McShane is a Senior Director of Market Analytics at CoStar and Homes.com for the Charlotte Region and South Carolina. In this role, he provides data-driven analysis of commercial and residential real estate market conditions in the region and c...
Chuck McShane is a Senior Director of Market Analytics at CoStar and Homes.com for the Charlotte Region and South Carolina. In this role, he provides data-driven analysis of commercial and residential real estate market conditions in the region and contributes to the CoStar Economy series on national economic trends. Chuck regularly presents to CoStar clients and industry groups, and his insights have been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other media outlets. Before joining CoStar, Chuck led the research team at the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance and Charlotte Chamber, where he developed industry studies and advised office and industrial site selection and expansion projects. He holds a doctorate in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Charlotte, North Carolina's office market is showing a clear divide between the newest properties and aging, outdated buildings, with rental performance increasingly tied to building vintage and ...
A combination of a record increase of industrial space and moderate, though increasing demand, has left a pair of major Southeastern U.S. port markets with some of the highest industrial availability ...
Industrial leasing volume in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is nearing its post-COVID peak with nearly 10 million square feet in industrial space leased over the year ending with the second quarter of ...
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.
June’s lackluster jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics highlighted the acceleration of a relatively recent trend with implications for both potential economic expansion and the pace of ...
Charlotte, North Carolina's retail inventory has struggled to keep pace with the area's population surge, pushing retail space per resident to its lowest level since CoStar began tracking the market ...
A handful of data releases last week painted a broad-brush picture of a relatively resilient U.S. economy managing to muddle through a temporary energy price shock.
Though Charlotte, North Carolina's retail market remains one of the tightest in the country, a closer look at tenant demand trends by income level shows performance is beginning to diverge.
Medical office availability in Charlotte, North Carolina, is at a record low, as population growth and hospital system expansions increase demand for existing space and elevated construction costs ...
The American job market pushed forward in April for a second consecutive month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent jobs report. The gains followed last week’s report of ...
Asking apartment rents in Charlotte, North Carolina, have fallen at the steepest pace in more than a decade, extending a multiyear downturn and signaling that conditions remain challenging across ...
The military conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran has delivered a fresh inflation shock to the U.S. economy, interrupting what had been a gradual cooling in consumer prices and ...
The average size of a signed office lease in Charlotte, North Carolina, has now surpassed pre-pandemic norms as big headquarters and expansion deals drive up the square footage, lifting the Queen ...
The fastest-growing state in the country reached another population milestone in 2025, Census data released recently shows. South Carolina, which outpaced all other states in population growth, ...
Population growth in the United States is shifting to the South, with the region’s midsize metropolitan areas, especially in the Carolinas, benefiting the most.