Melina Duggal, AICP, is the Senior Director of Market Analytics at CoStar and Homes.com, where she delivers insights on commercial and residential real estate across the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Norfolk regions. With more than 25 years of exp...
Melina Duggal, AICP, is the Senior Director of Market Analytics at CoStar and Homes.com, where she delivers insights on commercial and residential real estate across the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Norfolk regions. With more than 25 years of experience in real estate consulting and analytics, Melina brings deep expertise in market fundamentals, development feasibility, and regional dynamics. She founded and led Duggal Real Estate Advisors and earlier advised public‑ and private‑sector real estate clients at RCLCO. She has taught real estate at the University of Michigan, the University of Maryland, and George Mason University. Melina is a frequent speaker, including for the Urban Land Institute, Commercial Real Estate Women Network (CREW), the National Association of Home Builders, and the American Planning Association. She has published numerous articles and is a contributing author for real estate books. She has been quoted in The New York Times, Urban Land, and The Wall Street Journal. She holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.
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Apartment construction across the Washington, D.C., region is expanding modestly, though Northern Virginia is gaining the lion's share of new development.
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The Washington, D.C., medical office market is providing a boost to the region's larger office sector, thanks to steady healthcare demand and a thin construction pipeline.
Apartment rent growth in Palm Beach softened in April, marking a slowdown after a brief early‑year rebound and reinforcing a pattern of uneven performance across South Florida.
The Washington, D.C., region leads the nation with over 29.6 million square feet of new industrial projects, with over 200,000 square feet in the pipeline. Dallas-Fort Worth is trailing in a close ...
Apartment rent growth in Fort Lauderdale lost momentum in April, interrupting an early-year run of gains and reinforcing the uneven pricing conditions across the market.
Hampton Roads, Virginia, now has the third-highest annual apartment rent growth among the top 50 U.S. markets, as the region's affordability, diverse tenant base and limited construction fuel rent ...
Month‑over‑month apartment rent performance in Miami improved in April, offering a modest sign of stabilization after a choppy stretch that has kept pricing trends uneven.
Apartment renters across the greater Washington area face sharply different housing affordability conditions, shaped by the interplay between wages and rising rents in one of the most expensive ...
Washington, D.C.'s apartment market is undergoing a change, with weakness increasingly concentrated in its midtier, three-star properties rather than at the high-end, four- and five-star buildings, ...
Baltimore’s industrial market is entering correction territory, as rising vacancy, weakened tenant demand and an elevated construction pipeline drag down the sector.
Population growth across the Washington, D.C., region eased in 2025 after an unusually strong surge in 2024, marking a return to a more typical expansion for one of the nation's largest markets.
After three decades of near constant expansion, the Washington, D.C., region's office stock is now shrinking as demolitions hit record highs and developers scale back on new projects.
Washington, D.C.'s population growth slowed sharply in 2025 as continued domestic out-migration — residents moving elsewhere in the United States — offset gains from international arrivals and ...