Brenda Nguyen serves as Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com. She has over a decade of experience in real estate analysis, economic development, and brokerage, providing data-driven local insights into multifamily, office, industrial...
Brenda Nguyen serves as Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com. She has over a decade of experience in real estate analysis, economic development, and brokerage, providing data-driven local insights into multifamily, office, industrial, retail, and residential markets. On the residential side, she provides analysis of home prices, inventory levels, and rental conditions.
Brenda is based in Philadelphia and covers greater Philadelphia, Delaware, South Jersey, Central Pennsylvania, and Lehigh Valley. Her research and analysis are often featured in The Philadelphia Business Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Bisnow.
She speaks regularly at industry events hosted by the Urban Land Institute, the Appraisal Institute, SIOR, and local realtor associations. Brenda is a member of Lambda Alpha International, an honorary society for land economics professionals.
Brenda earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate-level courses at the Wharton School.
After rebounding strongly in 2024, sales of Philadelphia-area multifamily properties have increasingly lost momentum over the past two years. Apartment transactions totaled roughly $982 million ...
While rental concessions across Philadelphia's apartment sector remain well above historical levels, landlords across the city’s most in-demand neighborhoods are starting to dial back renter specials ...
For the first time in more than 15 years, developers are building more apartments in Philadelphia's suburbs than in the city itself. The construction trend reflects a sharp drop in the number of ...
The Philadelphia region's industrial development pipeline is migrating south. After leading the metropolitan area’s construction boom for the past six years, New Jersey's Burlington County is seeing ...
For the first time in over a decade, Philadelphia's luxury, mid-tier, and workforce apartment segments are posting similar rent growth, with all three hovering around 2% — a notable convergence that ...
Greater Philadelphia's retail development pipeline remains heavily pre-leased, with the region's largest projects securing commitments from national retailers before beginning construction. ...
Big-box industrial leasing appears to be gaining momentum across the Philadelphia market, with the number of lease deals climbing steadily from the cyclical low seen in 2023.
South-Central Pennsylvania stands out among commercial real estate markets for a structural imbalance that is increasingly rare. Across Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading, Lebanon, York, and Gettysburg, ...
Industrial space availability trends across South Central Pennsylvania— spanning Harrisburg, Lancaster, York, Reading, Lebanon and Gettysburg—reveal a growing disconnect between development patterns ...
Industrial development across South Central Pennsylvania has concentrated in three primary markets—York, Harrisburg, and Reading—driven largely by three factors: highway connectivity, proximity to ...
Emerging inflationary pressures are weighing more heavily on Philadelphia-area residents than the national average this spring, with the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan area recording a ...
Even as Lehigh Valley’s industrial market contends with elevated vacancy, CoStar is tracking roughly 28 million square feet of proposed projects, raising questions about how realistic that pipeline ...
Lehigh Valley’s industrial market is seeing a spike in sublease availability as large tenants scale back their footprints after several years of aggressive expansion. After emerging as one of the ...
Pennsylvania’s Space Optimization and Utilization Project, or SOUP, introduced in early 2025, is reshaping the Commonwealth’s office footprint in ways that carry implications for private‑sector ...
After going through a period of reduced leasing from its recent peak, Philadelphia’s medical office market is regaining balance as the spring season begins. While vacancy has edged higher over the ...
Apartment development in Center City Philadelphia is rapidly winding down as the downtown multifamily sector enters its quietest supply cycle in more than a decade.
The latest Census estimates reveal distinct regional population growth trends across Pennsylvania. Rural counties are lagging due to limited economic opportunities. In contrast, affordable areas near ...
Philadelphia's medical office market has entered a cooling period following several years of sustained expansion. Characterized by reduced demand, rising vacancy and decelerating rent growth, the ...
Philadelphia's industrial property market has undergone a structural shift since 2020, driven by rising land costs, accelerating e-commerce demand, and the growing sophistication and efficiency of ...