The Amazon fulfillment center, known as FAT1, near Central and Orange avenues in Fresno. Photo by Ben Hensley<\/p>\n
Fresno ranked among California\u2019s strongest markets for industrial real estate investment according to a r<\/a>ecent analysis from LoopNet<\/a>, ranking No. 40 nationally among 139 U.S. cities.<\/p>\n The Fresno market received a score of 60.2. The score combines five weighted metrics: rent-to-price ratio (30%), listing volume (20%), employment trends (20%), population growth (15%), and Class C inventory (15%).<\/p>\n Fresno had a median industrial asking rent of $10.02 per square foot and a median sale price of $123.02 per square foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fresno also saw a 2.5% increase in industrial employment over the past 12 months and 3.2% population growth over five years, according to the report. The market had 51 active listings.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fresno\u2019s ranking put it ahead of several California markets, including Stockton at No. 80, San Jose at No. 89, Sacramento at No. 98 and Los Angeles at No. 107.<\/p>\n Bakersfield was the only market to rank higher than Fresno, coming in at No. 32 with a score of 62.2. Its median asking rent was $13.20 per square foot and the median sale price $130.64 per square foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n The report ranked Midland, Texas, as the nation\u2019s top industrial investment market, followed by Lubbock, Texas; Indianapolis; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Odessa, Texas.<\/p>\n LoopNet analyzed more than 22,000 listings across 139 cities based on factors including rent-to-price ratios, available inventory, industrial employment trends, population growth and building quality.<\/p>\n The report comes as industrial demand is projected to outpace supply nationally by late 2027, increasing competition for attractive industrial investment markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Amazon fulfillment center, known as FAT1, near Central and Orange avenues in Fresno. Photo by Ben Hensley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[82449,512,3010,112,114,113,67350,191261,41762,183510,191262],"class_list":["post-490244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-real-estate","tag-central-valley","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-real-estate","tag-industrial-investment","tag-industrial-real-estate","tag-loopnet","tag-real-estate-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}