Lisa McNatt is the Senior Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com for the Central and North Florida markets. She provides insights into home prices, inventory levels, rental conditions, and economic factors shaping the housing market. B...
Lisa McNatt is the Senior Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com for the Central and North Florida markets. She provides insights into home prices, inventory levels, rental conditions, and economic factors shaping the housing market. Before joining CoStar, Lisa developed and led the research department for Avison Young’s Florida operations and has a deep breadth of experience analyzing market conditions across the state. Lisa earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of South Florida in Tampa and is a frequent media contributor and thought leader in the Orlando market. Her work has appeared in Real Estate Forum, Southeast Real Estate Business, Orlando Business Journal, and Orlando Sentinel, among others.
Jacksonville’s steady rise over the past five years has cemented the metropolitan area as one of Florida’s quiet population growth leaders, with relatively attainable housing costs continuing to set ...
Population growth slowed across much of the United States between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, according to newly released Vintage 2025 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, and South ...
After years of rapid in-migration, the Tampa Bay area’s population growth has entered a markedly slower phase, and in parts of the region, it has reversed outright.
While population growth slowed across most of the country between 2024 and 2025, Florida and Central Florida markets continued to expand at a pace that far exceeded national norms, according to new ...
Investment sales activity across the Orlando market strengthened in 2025, led by a sharp rebound in the multifamily and industrial sectors as capital gravitated toward properties offering durable ...
Insurance has long been one of the most volatile and consequential costs in Floridian real estate, often ranking among the top operating expenses for owners and investors.
Orlando’s commercial real estate market remains fundamentally strong, but conditions are diverging across property types. Each sector is working through a distinct set of headwinds, from supply ...
Annual rent growth in Orlando’s office market has decelerated to 1.3% as of the first quarter of 2026, pushing the metropolitan area near the bottom of Florida’s major markets.
Orlando remained one of the stronger job markets in the U.S. throughout 2025, outperforming many large metropolitan areas even as national hiring trends cooled.
Orlando’s industrial market enters 2026 at a crossroads, facing a rare combination of elevated vacancy, surging rent growth and a growing need for new supply.
Orlando’s office sector enters 2026 at a crossroads. After years of resilience, the market is now contending with its steepest demand challenges in decades.
Brokers agree on one defining trend heading into 2026: the flight to quality is no longer a preference, but a prerequisite. Class A buildings with strong amenity packages and flexible layouts are ...
In today’s retail environment, value has become the ultimate currency. With consumer confidence softening and economic uncertainty shaping spending habits, shoppers are increasingly focused on ...
Orlando’s retail sector continues to stand out nationally. Vacancy is holding steady at 3.8% in the fourth quarter of 2025, unchanged year over year. Among all U.S. markets with more than 100 million ...
Lake Nona has emerged as one of Orlando, Florida’s most dynamic office submarkets, defying broader headwinds and setting the tone for what a thriving mixed-use community can achieve.
Building just about anything in Apopka, Florida, is about to get a lot more expensive, and that could make an already tough development environment even harder for projects to pencil out.
Downtown Orlando’s retail landscape is entering a new chapter — one defined less by nightlife and more by a slow transition into a more dynamic and curated urban area. For years, the district leaned ...
With $2.5 billion in multifamily transactions year to date, Orlando has cemented its spot as one of the nation’s top 15 markets for trailing-year sales and the leading market in Florida. While the ...