Fults Market Report

Fults Market Report is a quarterly publication for the owners and users of real property that provides analysis of the local and national labor markets, trends in the Dallas office market, and information on the transactions behind the numbers.

	Fults Q3-2014 Dallas Office Market Report November 21, 2014 The Dallas office market gained substantial momentum in the third quarter of 2014. ...
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q1 2013 April 2, 2013 WE’RE ON OUR WAY UP - HOW HIGH WILL WE GO...
	Fults Year-End 2012 Market Report January 1, 2013 Dallas Fort Worth employers added 79,200 new jobs for the 12-month period ending December 2012 and the local unemployment rate dropped to 5.7 percent. The office market absorbed 2.5 million square feet and the total vacancy rate dropped to 17.7 percent. On average, quoted rental rates increased 1.9 percent. ...
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q3 2012 October 1, 2012 The Dallas office market gained substantial momentum in the third quarter of 2012. ...
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q2 2012 April 2, 2012 The Dallas office market experienced a slight uptick in activity during the second quarter of 2012 as tenants absorbed 363,188 square feet of office space. This small amount of absorption was not enough to move the vacancy rate which hovered at 18.3 percent. The overall average quoted rental rate in Dallas held at $19.59 per square foot....
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q1 2012 April 1, 2012 Dallas/Fort Worth posted solid job growth figures for the first two months of 2012...
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q4 2011 December 31, 2011 2011 was an exciting year for the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area...
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q3 2011 September 1, 2011 Preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that the Dallas/Fort Worth labor market has been slowly shedding jobs since May 2011. In our first quarter 2011 update, we reported that the D/FW economy had added 65,000 jobs for the 12-month period ending February 2011. In our second quarter report, job growth slipped to 60,400 for the 12-month period ending May 2011. Now, at the conclusion of the third quarter, job growth has slipped again to 50,200 new jobs for the 12-month period ending August 2011....
	Fults Dallas Market Update Q2 2011 July 1, 2011 Preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that 60,400 new jobs were added in the Metroplex (Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding areas) for the 12-month period ending May 2011. That number was down slightly from 65,000 new jobs reported for the 12-month period ending February 2011. Still, the Metroplex maintained one of the highest rates of employment growth in the U.S. at 2.05 percent....
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q4 2010 January 3, 2011 Preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that 60,400 new jobs were added in the Metroplex (Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding areas) for the 12-month period ending May 2011. That number was down slightly from 65,000 new jobs reported for the 12-month period ending February 2011. Still, the Metroplex maintained one of the highest rates of employment growth in the U.S. at 2.05 percent....
	Fults Dallas Market Update Q3 2010 October 1, 2010 Job growth numbers fluctuated between gains and losses during the summer months in Dallas/Fort Worth. At the conclusion of the third quarter, preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that Dallas/Fort Worth lost 3,400 jobs from year-end 2009 through August 2010. However, for the 12-month period ending August 2010, nearly 29,000 new jobs had been added in the Metroplex. The local unemployment rate was up slightly from 8.1 percent in May to 8.4 percent at the conclusion of the third quarter. This was still below the national unemployment rate of 9.6 percent....
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q2 2010 August 1, 2010 As we move into the second half of 2010, it seems as though the one thing of which we can be certain is that there is a lot of uncertainty out there. Preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that the Dallas/Fort Worth area recorded four consecutive months of employment gains and added 5,700 jobs for the 5-month period ending May 2010. The local unemployment rate was down slightly to 8.1 percent, which was still below the national level of 9.7 percent. Additionally, the nation as a whole also experienced job growth. During the first five months of 2010, over one million jobs were added in the U. S. ...
	Fults Dallas Market Report Q1 2010 April 1, 2010 Jobless recover. Those are not the words that an industry dependent on job growth wants to hear but as the economy is nearly nine months out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, that appears to be what national economic data is pointing toward. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 164,000 jobs were added in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. However, more careful examination of job growth from June 2009, the unofficial end-date of the recession, through the first quarter of 2010 shows that U.S. employment has decreased by nearly 900,000 workers and unemployment has risen to 9.7 percent. “This is the worst nine-month stretch following a recession of any post-war downturn in the economy,” according to The Economist. Additionally, with the stock market trading above 11,000 and increased consumer spending, unemployment could inch higher as those who have given up their search for employment return to the job market. The last indicator that the national economy is facing a jobless recovery is that the Federal Reserve has forecast 7.9 percent unemployment through 2012....
	Fults Dallas Market Update Q4 2009 January 1, 2010 At the conclusion of the fourth quarter, the Metroplex’s (Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding cities) economy and office market appeared to be almost standing still. Preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that 50,700 Metroplex jobs were lost in the 12-month period ending November 2009. While the job loss is painful to the Metroplex, it is minimal compared to the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Phoenix. Similarly, the local unemployment rate was 7.9 percent at the end of November while the national rate was 10 percent. Looking to 2010, the Federal Reserve and most economists expect national unemployment to hold above 9 percent throughout the year. ...