Fueled by the rapidly growing e-commerce sector, increased activity at the Port of Houston, and the city’s continued high population growth, demand for industrial real estate product in Houston has kept vacancy rates low and pushed the construction pipeline to an all-time high of 21.2 million square feet across the metro. While industrial construction activity has been dominated by build-to-suit activity over the past few years, developers are modifying their strategy to get ahead of requirements with a wave of speculative construction. As a result, the current industrial construction pipeline is 74% speculative space, totaling 15.7 million square feet set to deliver over the next 18 months – an increase of 268% year over year. Click to read more at www.transwestern.com.