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Vacancy finds!
How is the vacancy doing in the commercial real estate market for industrial and flex type properties in Austin?
Answer: Good for you as a tenant or a potential buyer.
Vacancy rates are still hovering in the low 20 percentile due to more space being delivered which has kept vacancy rates higher than normal. What’s the reason? Several actually, but mainly due to some shut downs of big companies along with an overbuilt market this is keeping the vacancies higher than normal.
What does that mean for you?
Here’s an example: some companies closing their offices, others have consolidated the amount of warehouse space they needed adding to the additional capacity of industrial property in the market today. Take the additional capacity along with a higher unemployment rate that translates to lower lease rates and more concessions available to tenants and buyers. For some sellers of property, there is still an elevated expectation of what the property should sell for. This will be evened out as time moves on and the hits or offers on the specific property are not very high.
Where are the best deals areas wise?
The highest percentage of vacant warehouse and industrial space is currently located in the Northern section of Austin followed by the Northeast and Round Rock area. It comes as no surprise that there is more warehouse space available in the Round Rock area due to the technology laden market in Round Rock which has diminished since last year employment wise. The decline in available warehouse and industrial related properties since 2008 has not declined that significantly only around 3%