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July 31, 2025
Austin and Dallas central business districts navigate convention center transformations
Beginning in April 2024, the Austin and Dallas central business district submarkets entered major convention center redevelopment phases, setting the stage for diverging hotel performance.
July 28, 2025
Hotel transactions involving REITs decelerated through the first half of 2025
Through the first half of 2025, 26 hotel transactions involved a real estate investment trust, or REIT, as a seller, totaling roughly $626 million in deal volume. This figure represents a 9% decline over the REIT disposition volume achieved during the same period in 2024.
July 18, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth’s retail pipeline sees a major comeback in new construction
The current pipeline of retail construction in Dallas-Fort Worth is comfortably around 7.3 million square feet by total square footage under development, some of the highest levels observed since 2017. By the end of the year, the metropolitan area is on track to complete 5.9 million square feet of retail space. The subsequent year is poised to maintain this momentum, with an estimated 5.6 million square feet in the works.
July 17, 2025
Multifamily sales show signs of life in Dallas-Fort Worth
Real estate transactions are steadily rising for multifamily properties in Dallas-Fort Worth. Deal volume totaled $4.6 billion through the first half of 2025, double the level from the same time in 2024. That increase extended to deal counts, which registered 150 transactions through mid-2025, rising 49% year over year.
July 14, 2025
Population data reveals new trends that could affect hotel development
New data highlighting population shifts could provide a glimpse into future development trends in the U.S. hospitality sector.
July 11, 2025
Multifamily rents in Dallas-Fort Worth backtrack through mid-2025
Multifamily rent growth in Dallas-Fort Worth fell in June, making way for annual rent growth to decline 1.1% through the mid-point of 2025.
July 10, 2025
Office leasing diverges this year
Office leasing activity edged higher in the first half of the year, though overall leasing volume remains stubbornly below its typical level from the late 2010s. While a few markets appear to be in full-blown recovery, others are still off the pace, hampered by both tepid demand and the absence of large blocks of available premium space.
July 9, 2025
Office demand gathers momentum in this Dallas-Fort Worth suburb
As office leasing steadily improves in Dallas-Fort Worth, demand in Richardson is surging, thanks to larger commitments from occupiers.
June 17, 2025
The office recovery is at last underway, but it's still not widespread
The pace of office occupancy losses has slowed dramatically over the past 12 months, and surging leasing activity indicates that the long-awaited recovery is at last underway.
June 16, 2025
Texas markets post divergent leisure and hospitality employment patterns through April
The leisure and hospitality sector across Texas's major metropolitan areas has shown markedly different trajectories over the past year, with employment trends reflecting distinct regional economic conditions and market pressures.
June 13, 2025
Multifamily rent growth loses momentum in Dallas-Fort Worth
Multifamily rent growth in Dallas-Fort Worth stalled in May after averaging 0.25% month-over-month gains since the beginning of the year. Rents were mostly static in May, while annual rent growth is down 1% based on CoStar’s daily asking rent series.
June 12, 2025
Immigration has bolstered apartment demand. What an expected slowdown means in four gateway markets.
Since 2020, more than 80% of the population growth across several major U.S. cities has come from international immigration, which has substantially benefited apartment demand in such markets as South Florida, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and in Orange County, California.
June 10, 2025
Princeton, Texas, leads the nation in population growth
Based on the latest population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, five out of the top 15 cities for population growth are within Dallas-Fort Worth. Princeton leads the pack, followed by Celina, Anna, Fate and Melissa. The established cities of Plano, Frisco, Allen and McKinney have galvanized themselves as mature central business districts to the north, with these smaller towns establishing themselves as satellites to more mature communities.
June 5, 2025
Retail rent growth in Dallas-Fort Worth has stagnated despite tight vacancy rates
The story of retail is one of transformation. From the super-regional malls of the 1980s to the outdoor shopping centers and mixed-use developments of today. Its future was not guaranteed, with many hedging seriously against the segment, with the rise of e-commerce threatening the relevance of brick-and-mortar stores.
June 2, 2025
From the Stockyards to railyards: Fort Worth's growing population fuels thriving industrial and office segment
In our last article, we reviewed the impact of Fort Worth’s status as a rapidly growing city as it has made its way beyond the million-resident milestone, becoming the fourth city in Texas to reach this achievement. Multifamily construction continues to see play both in the urban and suburban parts of the city. For retail, although the demand for space, especially newer stock, remains as tight as ever, the drive by developers to construct new space has remained relatively muted.
May 29, 2025
Fort Worth, Texas, has surpassed a major population milestone
At a time when the first half of the D-FW namesake has seen relatively stagnant growth, Fort Worth has been on a strong upward trajectory over the last several years. The city came incredibly close to hitting the fabled million-resident milestone last year, with many experts anticipating that the next data release would be the one to see this fabled number reached. That time has come, as the latest release from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the 2024 population hitting 1,008,100 total residents.
May 22, 2025
Stubborn retail availabilities face leasing challenges
One of the biggest challenges facing retailers looking to expand in the current retail environment is not just finding space but finding the right space. After several years of operating at near-unprecedented low availability, the first half of 2025 is starting to see some retail space come back to the market.
May 20, 2025
Multifamily rents notch April gains in Dallas-Fort Worth
Apartment rents in Dallas-Fort Worth notched consistent month-over-month gains through April 2025. Even as annual rent growth remains negative by 0.9%, recent monthly gains in 2025 demonstrate a 50-basis-point improvement since the end of 2024.
May 14, 2025
These Collin County multifamily submarkets hold firm amid surging supply
Like many Sun Belt markets, Dallas-Fort Worth continues to work through record levels of supply that have pushed overall vacancies higher. Even so, submarkets within Collin County are holding relatively firm with stabilized vacancy rates — or vacancies for properties that were completed over 18 months ago or have reached 90% occupancy — trending near their historical average.
May 13, 2025
Industrial leasing in Dallas-Fort Worth saw a resurgence in the first quarter
There was a certain degree of electricity that could be felt in Dallas-Fort Worth’s industrial real estate segment at the start of the year. Exuberance over the incoming Trump administration and what it could mean for taxes and regulation had companies coming out of the woodwork, willing to take on more space in what was still a high-cost-of-borrowing environment. Brokers were touting their busy schedules, saying this had been some of the most volume they had seen in a long time, and this is somewhat reflected in what we saw in the data.