Blaise Tomazic is the Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com, where he analyzes commercial and residential real estate markets across St. Louis, Kansas City, and other Midwest metros. His work focuses on market fundamentals, performanc...
Blaise Tomazic is the Director of Market Analytics for CoStar and Homes.com, where he analyzes commercial and residential real estate markets across St. Louis, Kansas City, and other Midwest metros. His work focuses on market fundamentals, performance trends, and shifts in supply and demand, with particular attention to commercial and residential conditions, including rental activity, pricing, inventory, and absorption.
With more than 15 years of experience in commercial real estate, Blaise brings insight into regional market cycles and economic conditions. He is a frequent speaker for real estate organizations, including CCIM, and his market insights have been featured in the St. Louis Business Journal and the Wall Street Journal. Blaise graduated from the University of Dayton with a bachelor's degree in finance.
Indianapolis apartment asking rents eased slightly in August, ending a stretch of summer gains while still outpacing year-ago levels. Average asking rents slipped 0.1% from July to $1.48 per square ...
Asking apartment rents in Memphis, Tennessee, declined for the second straight month, extending a late-summer slowdown and leaving rents essentially unchanged from a year earlier.
Steady multifamily construction in the Memphis, Tennessee, area over the past five years has broadened housing options for renters, but the added inventory is driving up vacancy rates and weighing ...
Louisville apartment asking rents were largely unchanged in August, continuing a period of limited pricing growth across the market. Average asking rent reached $1.32 per square foot in August, down ...
Apartment asking rents in St. Louis were flat in August, marking a pause to the steady gains recorded through most of 2026. Average asking rents ended the month at $1.51 per square foot, virtually ...
St. Louis retail availability has increased from a year ago, though the market remains considerably tighter than before the pandemic, as retailers continue to absorb large blocks of space and ...
Kansas City apartment asking rents slipped in August, marking a pause in the market's steady climb, which stretched back to the end of 2025. Average asking rents reached $1.54 per square foot in ...
Developers expanded apartment inventory across the Louisville area over the past five years, broadening housing options for renters across the region. Vacancy also moved higher as new supply outpaced ...
Kansas City's retail market continues to have less available space than before the pandemic, even as several large vacancies have returned inventory to the market over the past year.
Developers have added nearly 20,000 apartments across the Indianapolis area over the past five years, giving renters more housing options and pushing vacancy higher.
Indianapolis recorded its highest first-half property sales volume in at least a decade during the first six months of 2026, as transactions increased across the office, industrial, retail and ...
Developers have added almost 24,000 apartments across the Kansas City area over the past five years, giving renters more options and pushing vacancy slightly higher.
Memphis, Tennessee, recorded its highest first-half property sales volume since 2022, as gains in industrial and office transactions offset declines in the retail and multifamily sectors.
Sales activity in St. Louis accelerated during the first half of 2026, with investors completing 909 property transactions across the office, industrial, retail and multifamily sectors.
Sales activity across the Kansas City market increased during the first half of 2026, with investors completing 842 property transactions across the office, industrial, retail and multifamily sectors.
A surge of warehouse construction has more than doubled Hancock County's industrial inventory over the past five years, reshaping development patterns and market conditions across the Indianapolis ...
Apartment development across the St. Louis area has added a large number of new units over the past five years, reshaping market conditions in different parts of the region.
Employment growth in the Kansas City metropolitan area has slowed in recent years, with the region slipping into negative territory in early 2026 for the first time since the post-pandemic recovery ...
Employment growth in the St. Louis metropolitan area has steadily cooled since 2022, with recent data showing the region slipping into negative territory.
Industrial development across the Midwest has surged over the past five years, with Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio, emerging as the clear leaders.