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CommercialAustinAustin CRE Tear Sheet
Office · Retail · Industrial · Mixed-Use
Travis & Williamson Counties · TX
As of
Q2 ’26
Austin · Texas · Commercial Real Estate

The Austin commercial
real estate tear sheet.

Office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use property across the Austin metro — market rents, cap rates, investment fundamentals, and the corridors that are moving. Read it like a prospectus, not a brochure.

The Austin CRE Market

Sheet A · Asset Classes
01Office
Class A downtown trades at $45–65/sq ft; the Domain and North corridor run $35–50, with suburban product at $25–35. Vacancy is recovering post-pandemic as hybrid work shifts demand toward flex and coworking space. New towers are still rising on the downtown skyline.
$45–65 / sf
02Retail
South Congress, the 2nd Street District, and the Domain command premium rents of $30–60/sq ft. Food-and-beverage tenants dominate the mix, vacancy stays low in high-traffic corridors, and Austin’s relentless population growth keeps driving demand.
$30–60 / sf
03Industrial
The standout sector. Warehouse and distribution space leases at $8–15/sq ft, propelled by e-commerce and Samsung’s Taylor fab. The Southeast Austin and Hutto corridors are the hottest submarkets, with vacancy near record lows.
$8–15 / sf
04Mixed-Use
The future of Austin development — live-work-play projects at Mueller, the Domain, and South Congress. Developers cannot deliver them fast enough. Rents run at a premium, yet occupancy stays strong.
Premium

Investment

Sheet B · Fundamentals
01Cap Rates
Austin multifamily compresses to 4–5.5%, office sits at 5.5–7%, retail at 5–7%, and industrial at 4.5–6%. Yields are tight by demand but still attractive against coastal markets.
4–7%
02Growth Areas
East Austin keeps gentrifying; the Bastrop corridor catches the spillover; Georgetown and Hutto anchor the northern push; Del Valle rides the airport and Tesla; Manor offers affordable land with improving infrastructure.
5 submarkets
03REITs with Austin Exposure
Prologis (industrial), American Tower (towers), Hines (office and mixed-use), and Greystar (multifamily) all carry Austin in their growth portfolios — the city sits in nearly every major REIT’s plan.
Institutional
04Getting Started
Work with a local commercial broker — CBRE, JLL, and Transwestern all run Austin offices. Start with a small multifamily or retail strip, consider a 1031 exchange out of residential, and underwrite for the long hold. The fundamentals reward patience.
Long hold

Guides & Deep Dives

Sheet C · Reference
01Submarkets
A corridor-by-corridor map of the Austin market — Downtown/CBD, the Domain and North, East Austin, the airport industrial corridor, the Williamson-County boom, and the Bastrop spillover — with the driver behind each.
Corridor guide
02Asset Classes
Office, retail, industrial and mixed-use, one at a time: the demand drivers (Samsung’s Taylor fab, Tesla, hybrid work, population growth), attributed rent ranges and vacancy dynamics.
Deep dive
03Investing
How Austin CRE pencils — cap rates by class, 1031 exchanges, the financing climate, risk factors, and the Texas property-tax reality of no state income tax but high, annually reassessed property taxes.
Fundamentals
04Leasing Guide
Decode the lease: NNN vs gross, TI allowances, CAM, term lengths and escalations, how to read the clauses that bite — plus the Austin tax and vacancy angles that shift leverage.
Tenant & landlord
05Resources
A curated directory of the authoritative sources behind Austin CRE — City of Austin planning, the county appraisal districts, the CBRE/JLL/Cushman/Colliers research desks, CoStar/LoopNet, and the Chamber.
Directory
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