Greater Houston Commercial Asking Rent Snapshot — October 2026
Answer
Median of stated rents $18 per square foot per year (n=1,337). Observed through 2026-10-28. The median uses asking rents stated on public listings, is published at n=5 or more, and leaves out listings with no stated rent; it is not a confirmation of listing status.
50% of recorded listings don't state a rent with a unit. The median of stated asking rents is $18 per square foot per year (n=1,337).
Published observations in this window were read from 2026-10-07 through 2026-10-28. Fact Lease tracks Greater Houston commercial asking rents over time. Medians use stated asking rents only; listings without a stated rent are left out, and a class median needs at least 5 rents.
Cite Fact Lease: https://factlease.com/houston/reports/2026-10. Median of stated rents $18 per square foot per year (n=1,337). Observed through 2026-10-28. Asking rents as listed; listing status is not confirmed.Questions
What is the Greater Houston commercial asking-rent median in this snapshot?
Median of stated rents $18 per square foot per year (n=1,337). As of 2026-10-28. It pools all use types, is published at n=5 or more, and leaves out listings with no stated rent.
What is the Greater Houston office asking-rent median in this snapshot?
The Greater Houston office median of stated rents in this snapshot is $18 per square foot per year (n=1,233), observed through 2026-10-28. The office observations are at https://factlease.com/houston/office.
What is the Greater Houston retail asking-rent median in this snapshot?
The Greater Houston retail median of stated rents in this snapshot is $23 per square foot per year (n=44), observed through 2026-10-28. The retail observations are at https://factlease.com/houston/retail.
Does this snapshot publish a Greater Houston industrial asking-rent median?
Not yet: No median is published: these stated rents come from too few distinct listing sources for a median (n=5). Fact Lease does not estimate one.
Does this snapshot publish a Greater Houston flex asking-rent median?
Not yet: n=3 stated rents convert to dollars per square foot per year, and a median needs n=5 or more. Fact Lease does not estimate one in the meantime.
Chart for sharing: /houston/reports/2026-10.svg. Stated rents in this snapshot: /houston/reports/2026-10.csv. PDF twin.
As of 28 Oct 2026, the Fact Lease Rent Transparency Rate in Greater Houston was 50 percent of recorded commercial suites with no stated rent (1,728 of 3,437 public pages did not state a rent). 1,709 of 3,437 recorded Greater Houston suites in this window state a rent with a unit.
Median asking rent by asset class
Unit: USD per square foot per year. A class median uses only stated rents that convert under the method below. A median is not published when n is below 5.
All recorded use types: $18 per square foot per year. n=1337.
Plausibility band: $3 to $60 per square foot per year for office, retail, and use not stated; $2 to $30 for industrial and flex; and a stated monthly or yearly total that converts below $1 per square foot per year is never used. 1 stated rent falls outside that band and is set aside for review. It is not in n, the median, or the printed range. The stated rent stays on its suite page as stated.
| Asset class | Median | n | Min–max | Outside band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | $18 | 1233 | $10.98–$40.95 | 1 |
| Retail | $23 | 44 | $15–$50 | 0 |
| Industrial | — | 5 | — | 0 |
| Flex | Not published | 3 | — | 0 |
Lease-structure mix
Each median pools the lease structures its pages stated. A gross or full-service rent is not converted to NNN, and a structure is not inferred when the page did not state one. Read a median together with this mix.
| Asset class | n | Stated lease structure |
|---|---|---|
| Office | 1534 | Lease structure not stated: 1411; full service: 58; modified gross: 51; NNN: 11; NNN (triple net) not +E: 2; Modified Full Service: 1 |
| Retail | 44 | NNN: 44 |
| Industrial | 5 | Lease structure not stated: 5 |
| Flex | 3 | Lease structure not stated: 3 |
Sample composition
n=1,337. As of 2026-10-28. Methodology.
A warning is printed when one stated postal code is more than 30% of a sample and that sample has at least 5 stated rents that convert. The share uses the stated rents that convert to USD per square foot per year, not the rents set aside for review.
77433 is 16 of the 44 retail stated rents (36%). One postal code is more than 30% of that sample. This is not a balanced sample of retail.
Source hosts
n=1,337. As of 2026-10-28. Methodology.
A host is where a public page was read. It is not a broker confirmation and not a listing-status claim.
Rents that were not converted
USD per month, area not stated
These rents state a monthly rent and do not state an area, so they are not divided into a per-square-foot rate.
| Asset class | Median | n |
|---|---|---|
| Retail | $475 per month | 12 |
USD per square foot, period not stated
The listing stated a per-square-foot rent and did not say whether that was per year or per month. These rents are not mixed into the per-year median.
| Asset class | Median of the stated figure | n |
|---|---|---|
| Office | $20.25 per square foot, period not stated | 8 |
| Retail | Not published | 2 |
| Industrial | Not published | 1 |
| Flex | Not published | 1 |
Stated postal codes
No stated postal code in this snapshot has 5 or more stated rents that convert to USD per square foot per year. Smaller groups stay in the class median and are not tabulated.
Method
Observation window: 2026-10-01 through 2026-10-31, America/Chicago. A date is the day a listing was read, not a lease start. Published observations in this window were read from 2026-10-07 through 2026-10-28.
Each published suite contributes its newest observation in that window. An older observation of the same suite is not a second point.
3437 suites have an observation in the window. 1709 of those state a base rent with a unit. A base rent the listing did not state is left out of every median; a blank rent does not mean zero.
1 duplicate observations were collapsed before the medians. A duplicate is the same address, suite label, rent, unit, and area. A blank address is not merged with another suite. The n under each median is the count after that collapse.
USD per square foot per year is the primary unit. A rent stored as $/SF/yr is used as stated. A rent stored as $/SF/mo is multiplied by 12. That is a unit conversion of a stated rate, not a new rent. A rent stored as $/month is converted only when area is stated and greater than zero: monthly rent times 12, divided by the stated square feet. A rent stored as $/year is divided by stated square feet the same way.
A rent stored as $/SF (period not stated) is not converted. The listing did not say year or month. Those rents have their own median, labeled period not stated.
A monthly rent with no stated area stays in a USD-per-month median. It is not divided into a per-square-foot rate.
A stated amount with no stored unit is excluded from every median. The amount remains on the suite page. A non-positive rent is not used. This snapshot does not replace any excluded figure with an estimate.
766 stated rents remain outside every median after deduplication because the unit could not be used under those rules.
Plausibility band: $3 to $60 per square foot per year for office, retail, and use not stated; $2 to $30 for industrial and flex; and a stated monthly or yearly total that converts below $1 per square foot per year is never used. A stated rent outside that band is set aside for review: it is not in n, any median, or the printed min–max, and the stated rent stays on its suite page as stated. 1 stated rent is set aside for review in this snapshot (1 above the band). The CSV marks it withheld_review. No excluded figure is replaced with an estimate.
The median is the middle value after sorting. An even count uses the mean of the two middle values only. The mean is not published. A median is not published when n is below 5. The count is still printed, and no median is estimated.
52 stated rents that convert have no stated use type. They stay in the citywide median. They are not a headline asset class, they are not given a class page, and they are not moved onto office, retail, industrial, or flex.
When one stated postal code is more than 30% of a sample, and that sample has at least 5 stated rents that convert, the snapshot prints a composition warning. The warning is a share of stated rents, not a submarket name.
This Greater Houston snapshot does not have a Zenodo DOI. The Fact Lease Zenodo deposit https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22923838 holds San Antonio observations. It does not cover this snapshot.
Each observation is one suite, not a building and not a closed lease. Source type is Public web page. Evidence older than 7 days is Not re-read in 7+ days on the suite page. This snapshot does not drop an observation for age.
Caveats
These are asking rents printed on public listings, observed on the dates above. They are not closed transactions, not effective rents, and not a confirmation of listing status.
Rent units in the listings are inconsistent. Some state dollars per month, some state dollars per square foot per year, and some state a per-square-foot figure without a period. This snapshot does not guess the missing period.
Listing headlines are not treated as building names on suite pages when the observation states an address. The medians do not depend on the headline.
One property with many suites can dominate a postal code. This is not a building-weighted index.
Plausibility band: $3 to $60 per square foot per year for office, retail, and use not stated; $2 to $30 for industrial and flex; and a stated monthly or yearly total that converts below $1 per square foot per year is never used. 1 stated rent falls outside that band and is set aside for review. It is not in n, the median, or the printed range. The stated rent stays on its suite page as stated.
Spread by asset class
Unit: dollars per square foot per year. n is the deduplicated count of stated rents that convert. The interquartile range is the 25th to the 75th percentile of those rents, printed only when n is at least 5. A smaller class prints its count and does not publish a median or a range.
| Asset class | Median | n | Interquartile range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office | $18 | 1,233 | $16.32–$21.92 |
| Retail | $23 | 44 | $15–$45 |
| Industrial | $15 | 5 | $13.80–$15.45 |
| Flex | Not published | 3 | Not published |
Stated ZIP medians
A stated ZIP is included when it has at least 5 rents in this snapshot that convert to dollars per square foot per year, after the same deduplication as the class medians. Areas follow the ZIP code each public page stated; Fact Lease does not assign neighborhood names. A ZIP hub is linked only when that hub clears its index gate. 1 stated ZIP has n of at least 5.
| ZIP | Median | n | Interquartile range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 77477 | $13.84 | 19 | $12.40–$21 |
What this snapshot is not
These are asking rents printed on public pages, observed on the dates above. They are not closed transactions, not effective rents, and not a broker confirmation.
Gross and NNN rents are kept as stated and never converted into each other.
Figures are asking rents as each public page stated them on the date shown. They are not a broker confirmation and are not an appraisal.
How to cite
Cite Fact Lease: https://factlease.com/houston/reports/2026-10. Median of stated rents $18 per square foot per year (n=1,337). Observed through 2026-10-28. The CSV twin of these stated rents is https://factlease.com/houston/reports/2026-10.csv. Chart: https://factlease.com/houston/reports/2026-10.svg. Asking rents as listed; not a broker confirmation.
Every figure here is a dated asking rent from a public listing; it is not a confirmation of listing status and is not an appraisal. Greater Houston lists the published suites. All snapshots. Methodology. A misread field is identified on corrections.