Archive for October 2023

Economic Trends Hiring tempered in June and July of 2023 as San Antonio’s year-to-date employment growth rate ebbed to 1.2 percent. Net losses in the leisure and hospitality, as well as manufacturing, industries were offset by notable gains within the education and health services sector. While the overall pace of hiring remains moderate during the…

Economic Trends During the first half of this year, health care and social assistance organizations expanded staff counts by 17,000 positions, the largest increase among local industries. This helped Houston’s unemployment rate hold below the 4.7 percent mark for the 19th consecutive month in July, a feat that has only been achieved immediately before the…

Economic Trends Roughly 110,000 new employees will be added to the Metroplex’s workforce in 2023, the largest improvement among major U.S. markets. This increase, however, will be less than half the gain made last year as companies continue to feel the effects of elevated lending costs and persistent inflation. Slowed hiring efforts, paired with resuming…

Economic Trends Employment growth in the Austin metro continued to exceed its 3.8 percent historical average over the year ended in June, expanding 4.4 percent. This was bolstered by a net gain of more than 17,000 personnel in business and professional services jobs. Hiring is set to slow over the remaining six months of 2023,…

Economic Soft Landing Helps Bolster Self-Storage Outlook   Economic forces normalizing demand The self-storage sector is transitioning from the powerful tailwinds created by the pandemic and pent-up household formation to a more normal, seasonal demand climate. Elevated residential mortgage rates, which doubled in less than 20 months, together with reduced consumer sentiment, moderated household formation…