DFW was identified as one of the top 5 markets to watch for commercial real estate growth by the Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2016 report recently released by the Urban Land Institute and PwC:

According to the report, the top five 18-hour cities to watch in the coming year will be Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, Texas, Charlotte, N.C., Seattle and Atlanta. The shift of investor attention to such secondary markets is already well underway. Instead of just the seven or eight core coastal markets that everyone loves, there is more movement to the second-tier markets, including Portland, Ore., Denver, Minneapolis and Atlanta, says Earl Webb, president of U.S. operations for Avison Young in Chicago. Investors recognize that there is good economic and demographic growth occurring in those markets, as well as a healthy supply of high quality real estate assets, he says…