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.
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.
Charlotte, North Carolina’s labor market has widened its gap with the nation, offering office landlords an uncommon tailwind as many U.S. markets contend with slower hiring.
A softer-than-expected employment report for February confirmed a deteriorating job market. At the same time, the threat of rising oil prices as the military conflict in Iran drags on, combined with ...
The National Association for Business Economics’ Economic Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., last week brought together economists, policymakers and executives to discuss a range of topics, ...
A handful of high-profile corporate layoffs and anxiety surrounding advances in artificial intelligence have led to gloomy headlines about the state of the American job market.
The United States population is growing at its slowest rate since the height of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
Consumers maintained robust spending in late 2025, according to new Bureau of Economic Analysis data released last week that had been delayed by the federal government shutdown.
After a period on the sidelines, institutional investors and real estate investment trusts are jumping back into the Charlotte, North Carolina, office market with an eye on the Queen City's trophy ...
Industrial real estate displaced multifamily as the property type with the highest sales volume in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2025, with the largest properties driving the surge.