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Commercial real estate investment activity in South Florida has increased significantly, driven primarily by industrial and development sites, while multifamily sector activity has declined.
Analysis examining the slowdown in South Florida's commercial real estate investment sales market following a period of elevated activity.
Capital Economics analyzes net operating income growth trends across US office markets, identifying Southern metros including Miami, Dallas, and Houston as leaders in occupancy and rent expansion.
The tide is beginning to turn back in favor of multifamily landlords, but it’s still too early to get excited. Developers are starting to pull back on leasing incentives and bring rents back up after an oversupply benefited renters. At the end of the second quarter, the number of new leases (13,774) surpassed the…
“South Florida by the numbers” is a web feature that catalogues the most notable, quirky and surprising real estate statistics. For years, analysts have observed South Florida real estate as if it were one market moving in one direction. Increasingly, that assumption has never been less accurate. While affluent…
Summary and analysis of Fort Lauderdale’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.
Summary and analysis of Miami’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.
Summary and analysis of West Palm Beach’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.
Not long ago, Miami sold itself as the affordable alternative to New York. Lower taxes, cheaper housing and sunshine drew a wave of businesses, investors and wealthy transplants during and after the pandemic. But now, consumer prices have climbed 36 percent since 2019, home values have surged nearly 80 percent and,…
Summary and analysis of Palm Beach’s current economic and industrial real estate market conditions.
Summary and analysis of Broward’s current economic and industrial real estate market conditions.
Summary and analysis of Miami’s current economic and industrial real estate market conditions.
By Danny Fishman, CEO, co-founder, GAIA Real Estate The country’s broader middle class is facing a housing crisis: a growing gap in available, high-quality rental options. High-demand markets like Miami and New York City are now appearing in headlines on two lists at once. Miami is called out as oversupplied but is…
Home prices rose 0.3% in June, tied with May for the fastest growth since the start of 2026. Prices rose 3% on a year-over-year basis–the fastest growth rate in 10 months. Prices rose in 30 major metros month over month, with the biggest increases in Columbus (1.2%), Miami (1.1%) and Cincinnati (1%). This is based…
Rising retention and easing development support the multifamily market amid new leasing challenges.
Cushman & Wakefield research examining the persistent appeal and performance dynamics of high-profile retail corridors across the Americas.
Colliers reports on Miami-Dade County's retail market fundamentals and performance in the second quarter of 2026.
Colliers' Q2 2026 market analysis documents continued improvement in Broward County's industrial sector, driven by strong tenant demand, positive absorption, and stable occupancy.
Colliers reports on Palm Beach County's retail market performance in Q2 2026, noting positive net absorption, declining vacancy rates, and ongoing rent growth.
Colliers reports on Palm Beach County's office market performance in Q2 2026, highlighting positive net absorption and recovery from recent occupancy declines.
Colliers analyzes Palm Beach County's industrial market fundamentals in Q2 2026, noting mixed but stable conditions as the sector normalizes after years of rapid expansion.
Colliers reports that Miami-Dade County's office market posted 127,356 square feet of positive net absorption in Q2 2026, with year-to-date gains of 224,233 square feet.
Colliers reports on Broward County's office market stability in mid-2026 despite negative absorption figures.
Colliers' analysis of Broward County retail market conditions in mid-2026, noting fundamental health despite moderation in select performance indicators.
Colliers reports on Miami-Dade County's industrial market performance in Q2 2026, highlighting leasing activity, positive absorption, and rental growth trends.
This is a market report published by Commercial Observer in July 2026 covering retail sector vacancy conditions in South Florida, indicating sub-5% vacancy rates. The report includes capital markets analysis and carries both national and Florida geographic classifications.
There were almost half a million more home sellers than buyers in the U.S. in June, equal to 48.5% more. That means buyers hold the negotiating power. The number of homes listed for sale hit its highest level since 2020–but more buyers entered the market, too, which is why the seller-buyer gap didn’t change much…
Prices rose 2.2% year over year in June to a record high, mainly because of growing demand. Existing U.S. home sales ticked up to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.4 million, the highest level since 2022, and pending home sales reached their second-highest level since 2023. Wealthy Bay Area and South Florida…
West Palm Beach, FL, where the typical luxury home costs 8.9 times more than the typical non luxury home, has the nation’s biggest luxury home price premium. Next comes Miami, with a median luxury-to-non luxury home price ratio of 8.8, and New York City, where the typical luxury home costs 5.5 times the typical non…
Rents Improve, Occupancy Slips At the start of the second quarter, South Florida’s multifamily market registered moderate performance, according to the latest Yardi Matrix Miami multifamily market report. Average advertised asking rents were up 0.2%, on a trailing three-month basis through April, to $2,526,…
Palm Beach County's industrial market recorded a 7.7% overall vacancy rate in Q1 2026, declining 60 basis points from Q3 2025's peak, with average asking rent reaching $13.70 per square foot despite a 1.0% quarterly decline; net absorption totaled 94,000 square feet year-to-date while the development pipeline held 811,000 square feet under construction with 53% preleased. The market experienced decreased new leasing activity for the third consecutive quarter at just over 135,000 square feet, though renewal activity remained strong and positive net absorption is expected to continue supported by over 517,000 square feet of leased space in the pipeline and the 200,000 square foot Hoerbiger corporate headquarters scheduled for occupancy by year-end.
Palm Beach County's retail market vacancy rate decreased 10 basis points year-over-year to 3.8% in Q1 2026, while average asking rent jumped 6.2% to a record $38.54 per square foot, driven by strong net occupancies and influx of top-of-market priced supply. Retail investment sales surged to $477.2 million in quarterly volume—the largest since Q2 2022—with cap rates averaging 6.1%, below the national average of 7.3%, reflecting strong investor demand fueled by wealth influx and limited available space.
Palm Beach County's office market recorded a 13.5% overall vacancy rate at the end of Q1 2026, down 50 basis points quarter-over-quarter, with Downtown West Palm Beach vacancy falling 340 basis points annually to 12.7% driven by occupancies at One Flagler. Net absorption reached 128,000 square feet year-to-date despite new leasing activity declining 20% year-over-year, while overall average asking rents rose 6.3% year-over-year to $54.20 per square foot with Class A rents reaching $64.78 per square foot, the fifth highest in the nation.
Fort Lauderdale's multifamily market experienced a slowdown in Q3 2025 with asking rent growth of just 0.1% following the unsustainable surge of 2021–22, driven by a large luxury supply wave that expanded vacancy to 7.6% and increased concessions, though rents remained over 25% above early-2021 levels and 34% above the U.S. average. The market recorded 8,760 units under construction (predominantly Class A luxury), annual sales of $1.8 billion with cap rates rising to 5.6%, and strong absorption averaging over 1,000 units per quarter since late 2023, while lower-rent submarkets posted some of the strongest annual rent gains as renters shifted toward more cost-effective areas.
Fort Lauderdale's retail market in Q3 2025 exhibits tight conditions with asking rents averaging $36 per SF, vacancy at 3.9%, and annual rent growth slowed to 1.1%, supported by strong tenant demand from fitness, grocery, and entertainment users despite minimal new supply of approximately 281,000 SF under construction. Retail investment sales reached $292 million over the past year driven by grocery-anchored and neighborhood centers, with the metro's economy remaining resilient supported by a median household income of $79,795, unemployment at 3.6%, and employment 5% above pre-pandemic levels.
Cushman & Wakefield's Q1 2026 MarketBeat report on Broward County's industrial market shows overall vacancy declined 10 basis points quarter-over-quarter to 5.4%, though it remains 120 basis points higher year-over-year due to 1.2 million square feet of 2025 deliveries of which over 90% remained unoccupied. Net absorption surpassed 137,000 square feet in Q1, the highest quarterly total in two years, while average asking rents rose 5.0% year-over-year to $17.67 per square foot, with new construction completions and expected pipeline deliveries projected to create upward vacancy pressure and rate volatility throughout 2026.
Broward County's office market vacancy rose to 16.2% in Q1 2026, the highest level since 2018, driven by large tenant vacancies in suburban submarkets particularly Weston and Sunrise, while the central business district remained stronger at 14.3% vacancy and recorded over 50% of total leasing volume despite overall asking rents averaging $42.68 per square foot. Net absorption declined to negative 88,032 square feet year-to-date, new leasing activity continued to slow to 231,000 square feet in Q1 marking the third consecutive quarter of decline, though downtown Class A asking rents reached $61.95 per square foot with one building surpassing $100 per square foot for the first time in the county's history.
This is a Q1 2026 industrial sector data report published by CBRE covering Broward County, with coverage areas including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and national markets.
Broward County's retail market ended Q1 2026 with a 4.0% overall vacancy rate (up 30 basis points year-over-year) and an average asking rent of $35.47 per square foot (up 1.6% YOY), with nearly 100,000 square feet of new space delivered and over 690,000 square feet under construction. Leasing activity declined for a third consecutive quarter to 443,000 square feet, net occupancy fell by 94,000 square feet, and mall vacancy reached a market high of 6.5%, though investment sales rebounded strongly to $227 million in Q1 volume with cap rates ranging from 5.5% to 6.5%.
Cushman & Wakefield's Q1 2026 MarketBeat report on Broward County multifamily markets documents that Q1 deliveries totaled 1,515 units with units under construction falling to approximately 6,000—the lowest since 2020—while stabilized occupancy rose 20 basis points to 93.5%, net absorption reached 856 units, and overall effective rent stood at $2,423 per unit (down 0.9% year-over-year but up 1.3% quarterly). The report notes that demand outpaced supply in 2025 for the first time in three years with Central Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood/Dania Beach accounting for 57% of Q1 market gains, though nearly 3,400 additional units scheduled to deliver by year-end are expected to pressure occupancy rates entering 2027.
Miami's office market recorded 918,000 square feet of total leased space in Q1 2026, with tech occupiers accounting for 37% of leasing activity and FIRE tenants representing 20%, while the market achieved $523.3 million in sales volume—the highest first-quarter total in over a decade—driven by major transactions including Goldman Properties and Citadel's acquisition of 545 Wyn and Mana Group's purchase of One Downtown. Miami's office utilization stood at 75.1% in February 2026 compared to February 2019, outperforming primary national markets, with overall market vacancy at 13.7% and positive net absorption of 96,265 square feet for the quarter.
Miami-Dade County's retail market in Q1 2026 showed vacancy rising 50 basis points year-over-year to 3.2%, below the national average of 4.4%, with average asking rent reaching $48.98 per square foot, up 1.1% annually. Leasing momentum improved with deal volume rising 26.9% year-over-year to over 708,000 square feet, though net occupancy losses totaled 394,000 square feet, while retail investment sales declined 15.8% to approximately $212 million, with capitalization rates averaging 5.8% unchanged from the prior year.
This is a Q1 2026 market report published by CBRE presenting data and figures on the office sector in Miami, Florida. The report appears to cover office market metrics for the Miami market as of March 2026.
Miami's multifamily market delivered 1,956 units in Q1 2026, up 53.5% year-over-year, with a construction pipeline of nearly 13,800 units concentrated in Downtown Miami at 30.7% of development activity, though stabilized occupancy declined 80 basis points to 94.2% as vacancy rose above 9.0% from cumulative supply growth of 41.1% since 2020. Effective rent totaled $2,641 per unit in Q1 2026, down 1.0% year-over-year, while net absorption of 2,195 units marked the highest quarterly figure since Q3 2021, with investment momentum carrying into early 2026 at over $73 million in transactions and a price per unit of nearly $398,000.
This is a quarterly industrial sector data report published by CBRE in March 2026 covering the Miami market. The report presents figures and metrics for the industrial real estate sector in Miami, Florida.
Miami's office market in Q1 2026 recorded a 15.1% overall vacancy rate with asking rents at $65.22 per square foot, driven by modest leasing activity of 288,000 square feet (down 54.3% year-over-year) and ongoing flight-to-quality demand favoring Class A space, while the market maintains a 490,000-square-foot construction pipeline that is only 20% preleased. Class A rents reached $71.59 per square foot (up 4.8% year-over-year) and Class B rents rose to $54.40 per square foot (up 3.9% year-over-year), with Coral Gables leading submarket rent growth at 13.9% annually to $62.17 per square foot.
Miami's industrial market in Q1 2026 experienced a 59.3% decline in construction completions to 367,000 square feet compared to the prior year, while vacancy rose to 6.5% amid net occupancy losses of 11,000 square feet and a 6.5% year-over-year decrease in weighted average asking rents to $15.75 per square foot. Leasing activity totaled approximately 1.1 million square feet, representing a 46.2% YOY decline in deal volume, with Airport West recording the highest absorption and over 3.4 million square feet of leased space expected to occupy by year-end 2026.
This is a market report published by Colliers in Q1 2026 covering the office sector in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Miami's industrial market reached record average sale prices of $257 per square foot in Q1 2026, marking the ninth consecutive quarter of appreciation, while asking rents averaged $17.26 psf NNN despite a 1.7% quarterly decline. Vacancy rose to 7.2% as new supply was delivered and leasing cycles lengthened to 6.1 months, the longest in two years, though overall leasing activity of 3.1 million square feet remained within the market's normalized demand range with transaction volume at $208 million.
Newmark's fourth-quarter 2025 market overview of Miami-Dade County industrial real estate reports that the market realized 334,170 square feet of positive absorption with overall rental rates rising 3.3 percent year-over-year to $16.28 per square foot, while the vacancy rate increased 40 basis points to 5.2 percent due to 3.9 million square feet of annual construction deliveries outpacing demand. The document identifies major transactions including PepsiCo's 794,230-square-foot lease at Bridge Point Commerce Center and notes that the regional unemployment rate ticked up to 2.6 percent year-over-year while employment growth decelerated to 0.5 percent, below the national average of 0.8 percent.
Miami-Dade County's office market recorded negative net absorption of 99,330 square feet in fourth quarter 2025, with vacancy rising 20 basis points year-over-year to 14.8%, while average asking rents hit a record high of $61.49 per square foot, up 5.7% annually, driven by tenant flight-to-quality and new Class A deliveries. Employment growth in office-using sectors remained mixed, with financial activities expanding 1.2% year-over-year while professional and business services and information sectors contracted 1.3% and 0.9% respectively, as overall office-using employment dipped 0.5% to 332,600 jobs.
South Florida's office market posted an 8.6% vacancy rate in Q4 2025 with asking rents rising year-over-year from $37.37 to $39.81 per square foot NNN, while industrial vacancies increased to 5.7%, retail remained stable at 3.3% vacancy, and multifamily vacancies edged up to 6.7%. Lee & Associates attributed office resilience to wealth management firm activity and upcoming hedge fund investment events, while noting industrial market recalibration with negative net absorption and retail strength driven by grocery-anchored assets and Publix expansion.
South Florida's industrial market experienced vacancy rate increases from 6.6% to 7.7% year-over-year in Q3 2025, while average asking rents rose modestly from $17.09 to $17.35 per square foot NNN. The retail sector remained resilient with a 3.4% vacancy rate and asking rents of $36.36 per square foot, office vacancies held steady at 8.3% with rents climbing to $39.19 per square foot, and multifamily maintained a 6.5% vacancy rate with asking rents increasing to $2,264 per month.
This is a quarterly market report published by Colliers in March 2026 covering the multifamily sector in South Florida. The report covers geographic areas including Miami and Florida as well as national context.
This is a third-quarter 2025 market report published by Berkadia covering the multifamily sector in South Florida, with geographic focus on Miami and Florida markets.
Redfin reported there are 46.9 percent more home sellers than buyers in the U.S. housing market, signaling buyers hold the power. In May 2026, 35 of the 50 most populous U.S. metros were buyer's markets, led by Sun Belt locations.
RealPage identifies 11 of the 50 largest apartment markets expecting effective asking rent gains of 3 percent or more in 2026, led by Miami at 3.8 percent, Seattle at 3.7 percent and Los Angeles at 3.2 percent.
The Q1 2025 pulse survey identifies Dallas as the most preferred US market for 2025, followed by New York, Miami, Boston and Atlanta, reflecting international investor allocation intentions.