As the flood waters continue to recede in Texas and Louisiana, officials caution the storm waters continue to pose threats to life and property. However, the region is shifting into recovery mode and beginning to take a full measure of the unprecedented destruction brought by Hurricane Harvey.
An assessment of the potential impact of the epic storm on the Houston commercial real estate market indicates 27 percent of the market’s gross leasable area, representing approximately $55 billion in property value, was likely affected by flooding.
This report is being offered through Philadelphia commercial real estate broker Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a Philadelphia commercial real estate brokerage firm, based on information collected and studies conducted by the by the CoStar commercial real estate information company.
Included in the estimated is 175 million square feet of commercial real estate market space located within the Houston metro’s 100-year flood zone that appears to have been inundated by the epic floodwaters, including some 72,000 apartment units and 20 million square feet of office space.
Harvey, which first made landfall at Rockport, TX, as a Category 4 hurricane early August 26 and then stalled over the Texas coast, broke all records to become the wettest tropical cyclone in the contiguous United States. Weather experts have estimated that through the middle of last week, the storms had dumped an estimated 20 to 25 trillion gallons of water on Texas and Louisiana.
The greater Houston commercial real estate market ranks as the sixth-largest metro area in the U.S. by total CRE space at 1.6 billion square feet. According to CoStar data as presented Philadelphia commercial real estate broker Wolf Commercial Real Estate, a Philadelphia commercial real estate brokerage firm, $16 billion of the $55 billion in property at risk is comprised of apartment buildings within the 100-year flood zone.
The densely populated Southwest Houston submarket segment of the overall Houston commercial real estate market, home to more than 66,000 apartment units, is likely to be the district most affected by flooding. Nearly 30 percent of the submarket’s apartment units are estimated to be impacted, with the Braeburn, Greater Fondren and Sharpstown neighborhoods having the largest number of units within the 100-year flood zone.
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