Roundtable: Brokers From NAI Partners Discuss Austin’s 2020 Performance and 2021 Expectations

As one of the fastest-growing markets of the past decade that continues to make headlines for high-profile developments and corporate relocations, Austin has had some economic and demographic cushion from the headwinds brought on by COVID-19 over the past year.While leasing and investment sales activity essentially froze at the onset of the pandemic, as it did in virtually every major U.S. market, Austin’s strong growth in office-using jobs, natural pace of in-migration and vibrant …

March 17, 2021Market Reports, NAI, Texas, Texas Market Reports

The Houston Retail Market: What’s Changed After A Year of the Pandemic

By Shawn Ackerman, president of Houston retail, Henry S. Miller Brokerage COVID-19 is on everyone’s mind. From landlords to tenants, all are desperately trying to predict the future, because the past has destroyed many businesses. Retailers such as Luby’s, Chuck E. Cheese, Lane Bryant, 24 Hour Fitness, Gold’s Gym, Pier 1 Imports and Tuesday Morning all filed bankruptcy in 2020. Not only did numerous tenants file for bankruptcy, but many more are also barely holding on. What does the …

March 15, 2021Market Reports, Retail, Texas, Texas Market Reports

Dallas Self-Storage Development Maintains Slow But Steady Construction Trajectory

By Mirela Mohan of STORAGECaféThe self-storage industry closed 2020 on an upward path, seeing stable or rising rental rates and elevated construction activity across the board after an uncertain year.According to our data, new construction stayed on a steady trajectory throughout the year, with 49.4 million square feet of new product added nationally — slightly less than the volume of new development in 2019. This came as a natural consequence of the high existing inventory which, …

March 12, 2021Industrial, Market Reports, Self-Storage, Texas, Texas Market Reports

The Single-Family Rental Sector Has Grown Up, and Texas is Ripe for Opportunity

By Mark Wolf, CEO and founder, AHV Communities The single-family rental (SFR) sector began its institutionalization during the Global Financial Crisis when so many homeowners found themselves unable to pay their mortgages. The mass quantity of repossessed homes was sold off on courthouse steps or at large in-person or online auctions, with mega-landlords amassing the homes and renting them out as investments. At the time, that business model was the only one widely recognized or, notably, …

February 23, 2021Market Reports, Single-Family Rental, Texas, Texas Market Reports

Shifting Investment Patterns Prompt IPA’s Industrial Expansion in Texas

By Taylor WilliamsThe decision by Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, to recently bring its investment sales services for the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) industrial market not only represents an opportunity to gain share of a booming market, but also to capitalize on a pronounced shift in buying patterns.COVID-19 has drastically accelerated demand for e-commerce services and industrial space on the leasing front. As investors that put new …

February 19, 2021Company News, Industrial, Market Reports, Texas, Texas Market Reports

Exclusive Survey: New Administration Worries Texas Real Estate Professionals

By Taylor Williams At a time in which politics pervades nearly every facet of life and business, and in which ideological divides are wide and getting wider, commercial real estate professionals in Texas have some concerns about how the Democrats’ newfound control of two of the three branches of the federal government will impact business. President Joe Biden has been sworn into the nation’s highest public office, and Democrats now hold control of both houses of Congress following the …

February 5, 2021Market Reports, Texas, Texas Market Reports

Pent-Up Demand Grows for Experiential Retail in Texas

By Taylor Williams With widespread vaccination several months away and the federal government having passed additional relief legislation, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be in sight. To that end, retailers and restaurants that have survived the public health crisis can, with some reservations, start to look toward the rebound phase. Because there’s no question that American consumers are itching to make up for lost eating, drinking and socializing time, provided they can do so …

January 7, 2021Market Reports, Retail, Texas, Texas Market Reports

Austin Poised to Emerge From Pandemic as a Premier Multifamily Market

By Sean Sorrell, senior managing director, JLL As we enter 2021, there’s no doubt that we are emerging from one of the most unique and trying years that our modern civilization has ever confronted, and we all likely agree that we will never again endure a pandemic of this scale. As of the writing of this article, the first vaccines have arrived in Austin; our first responders have begun administering it to the public and we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.In the …

December 22, 2020Market Reports, Multifamily, Texas, Texas Market Reports

Spec Industrial Development Accelerates Throughout Texas

Industrial developers throughout the major markets of Texas are hustling to acquire and entitle land, arrange construction financing and break ground on projects to meet ever-growing requests for an increasingly diverse group of users. Accelerated demand for e-commerce and logistics services and sustained population growth ensure that new, well-located industrial spaces will be absorbed as soon as they come on line — if not before then. Developers are increasing the proportion of spec …

November 24, 2020Industrial, Market Reports, Texas, Texas Market Reports

Multifamily Architects, Contractors Deliver Services in New Ways to Keep Projects Moving, Say InterFace Panelists

By Taylor Williams Like most members of the working world, professionals who design and build multifamily properties in Texas have had to adjust how they do business and service clients in response to COVID-19. But many of these companies and individuals have managed to do so in ways that haven’t significantly hindered workflow.From conducting virtual meetings with staff or clients to using complex interfaces that allow for real-time illustrations to maintaining strict distancing …

November 23, 2020Conference Coverage, Market Reports, Multifamily, Texas, Texas Market Reports