Retail real estate was supposed to be the casualty of the ecommerce decade. The narrative was relentless and seemingly inevitable: Amazon was killing retail, brick and mortar was dying, and the malls were next. Texas did not get the memo.
Texas leads the United States in commercial construction spending at nearly 90 billion dollars annually, more than double any other state. A disproportionate share of that spending is going into data center development.
Every corporate headquarters that relocates to Texas brings with it a wave of apartment demand that follows a predictable pattern if you know how to read it. The C-suite and senior management relocate first, driving demand for Class A product in premium urban and suburban locations.
The Opportunity Zone program has been made permanent. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by Congress in 2025, extended and restructured the program as Opportunity Zone 2.0, with new designations taking effect January 1, 2027, following the sunset of current OZ 1.0 designations at the end of 2028.
The Texas multifamily market spent 2024 and 2025 digesting an extraordinary supply wave. Developers who approved construction starts during the low-rate environment of 2020 through 2022 delivered a volume of new units that temporarily exceeded absorption capacity in several major metros.
If you are allocating real estate capital anywhere in the United States right now and you are not paying close attention to what is happening inside the Texas Triangle, you are working with an incomplete map. The geographic region bounded by Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio has crossed a threshold that goes well beyond typical Sun Belt growth narrative.
Texas is the most active fix-and-flip market in the country. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin — all four metros have active private lenders, strong ARV support, and high deal velocity. But Texas also has lender-specific criteria that trip up borrowers who assume the same rules apply everywhere.
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