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Q2 2026

Q2 2026 Spokane Commercial Real Estate Market Report

Focus: Q2 2026 Market Trends

Executive Summary

The Spokane and broader Inland Northwest commercial real estate (CRE) market is experiencing a phase of balanced middle-market resilience through the mid-point of 2026, navigating broader macroeconomic headwinds with localized stability and steady demographic demand. The Retail storefront marketplace completely dominates regional activity, capitalizing on steady service-based expansions and tight baseline inventory across major neighborhood corridors. Industrial and warehouse segments continue to operate from a position of relative regional endurance, with local user activity heavily supported by multi-tenant warehousing, distribution, and advanced manufacturing flex demand along the Interstate 90 corridor. Meanwhile, the Office market is advancing through a structured period of operational equilibrium; thanks to a highly disciplined development pipeline, the market has avoided the severe supply expansions seen in larger metropolitan peers, keeping vacancies well-managed while modern, well-amenitized facilities capture premium tenant interest.

TenantBase Proprietary Data highlights the distribution of active tenant demand over the last 90 days:

  • Storefront/Retail completely dominated localized transaction activity, capturing 68.33% of all searches (42 deals out of 60 explicitly tracked by sector or 122 deals overall).
  • Warehouse was the second most active sector, representing 21.69% of tracking demand (50 deals).
  • Office comprised 9.98% of total transaction search volume (36 deals).

Office Market

Market Overview

The Spokane office sector enters the summer of 2026 on a stable footing, defined by tight construction controls and a continuing private-sector flight to quality.

  • Vacancy & Cost Advantages: Broad market vacancies across the metro have maintained an admirable flat-line stabilization near 11.3% to 11.5%, performing dramatically better than the wider United States baseline. The region's affordable gross average asking lease rates continue to act as a significant draw for expanding firms seeking to position administrative or back-office teams away from higher-cost coastal markets.
  • Flight to Experience: Tenant activity remains concentrated across premium Class A properties. Corporate users continue to heavily prioritize highly efficient, amenitized office configurations over secondary commodity space, which keeps premium rents stable and gives landlords of modern facilities clear term leverage.

TenantBase Activity

  • Demand Share: Office accounted for 17.48% of total search volume (36 deals).
  • Lease Term Preference: Local user workspace inquiries reflect a heavy focus on immediate flexible arrangements and near-term short agility curves:
    • Less than one year: 33.33% of deals (2 deals).
    • 3-5 Years: 33.33% of deals (2 deals).
    • 2-3 Years: 16.67% of deals (1 deal).
    • 5+ Years: 16.67% of deals (1 deal).
  • Size Requirements: Floor area metrics display a distinct alignment with long-term lease commitments. Long-term 5+ Year commitments request substantial and highly efficient configurations, averaging a lower bound baseline threshold of 2,500.00 SF up to an upper capacity threshold limit of 5,000.00 SF. Coworking platform requests seek single desks or micro-layouts averaging 375.00 SF to 750.00 SF for immediate, short-term flexible needs under a year.

Industrial & Warehouse Market

Market Overview

Functioning as the principal distribution hub for the Inland Northwest and the primary logistical connector between the Pacific Northwest and the Intermountain West, Spokane’s industrial warehousing sector remains a primary economic engine.

  • Small-Bay and Service Stability: While large-scale bulk speculative completions across the country have faced extended lease-up timelines, Spokane’s light industrial and multi-tenant warehouse assets remain tightly held. Local investment and leasing strategies are increasingly focused on small-bay industrial configurations occupied by essential, service-based local businesses.
  • Corridor Performance: Logistical demand remains securely anchored along the strategic I-90 shipping corridor, stretching from the West Plains through Spokane Valley and into North Idaho. Landlord base pricing models hold historically firm, supported by low direct vacancies across functional manufacturing flex and shallow-bay complexes.

TenantBase Activity

  • Demand Share: Warehouse represented 24.27% of overall search trends (50 deals).
  • Lease Term Preference: Active warehouse user inquiries display a strong concentration focused on intermediate operational curves, led by medium-term target structures:
    • 3-5 Years: 60.00% of deals (3 deals).
    • 2-3 Years: 40.00% of deals (2 deals).
  • Size Requirements: Requirement footprints expand steadily in direct alignment with target lease durations. Intermediate 2-3 Year commitments require an average lower bound parameter of 6,250.00 SF and an upper capacity bound max of 17,500.00 SF. Standard intermediate 3-5 Year terms require larger setups, asking for a lower average baseline parameter of 10,000.00 SF and an upper maximum capacity boundary limit of 25,000.00 SF, fully matching the unclassified multi-tenant distribution layout average which carries an upper capacity bound of 25,000.00 SF.

Retail Market

Market Overview

The retail storefront sector throughout the metro area continues to lead the regional property marketplace in terms of supply-side stability and low direct availability, heavily insulated by limited competitive completions.

  • Scarcity Balance Leverage: Neighborhood shopping plazas and service-oriented storefront complexes maintain firm price-performance resilience. Because high construction material inputs and labor costs have deeply restricted ground-up speculative projects, landlords maintain stable lease terms and solid negotiation leverage.
  • Merchant Realignment: Active space demand remains securely driven by service-oriented local brands, discount retail lines, and medical network groups backfilling pre-existing second-generation blocks to bypass steep build costs and efficiently capture established neighborhood traffic corridors.

TenantBase Activity

  • Demand Share: Retail/Storefront activity captured the absolute highest volume of local market demand tracking, comprising 59.22% of active user inquiries.
  • Lease Term Preference: Merchants demonstrate a clear priority toward establishing intermediate lease structures to secure physical customer continuity:
    • 2-3 Years: 50.00% of deals (7 deals).
    • 3-5 Years: 35.71% of deals (5 deals).
    • Less than one year: 7.14% of deals (1 deal).
    • 1-2 Years: 7.14% of deals (1 deal).
  • Top Locations: Out of the geographic locations explicitly logged on the platform over the last 90 days, the highest concentrations of local transaction interest centered on Coeur d'Alene across the border (8 deals), followed closely by Spokane proper (7 deals), Spokane Valley (7 deals), and Post Falls (4 deals). Standard intermediate 3-5 Year retail storefront footprints require a lower average baseline parameter of 1,000.00 SF up to an upper capacity threshold maximum boundary limit of 2,500.00 SF. Blended requests carrying no designated value seek a lower parameter footprint averaging 2,699.80 SF and an upper capacity maximum boundary limit of 4,717.00 SF.

2026 Outlook

Moving through the remainder of 2026, the Spokane CRE marketplace is securely aligned for localized supply-driven stabilization across major asset profiles.

  • Office Rebalancing: Favorable cost-competitive advantages and a flat speculative building pipeline will continue to protect existing office configurations, enabling high-quality Class A office space to steadily capture remaining local administrative expansions.
  • Industrial Equilibrium: Driven by consistent domestic manufacturing demand and an increased investor appreciation for small-bay service setups, the regional warehousing market will maintain stable, low direct vacancies along the core interstate grid.
  • Retail Stability: Highly constrained ground-up speculative shopping center starts coupled with durable workforce household cash flows will look to preserve tight storefront availability metrics, locking in healthy landlord position retention heading into 2027.

Sources

[1] SVN | Cornerstone Commercial: Retail vs. Industrial Real Estate Investment in Spokane County

[2] Activ8 Real Estate: Spokane Office Market Report & Bifurcated Vacancy Trends

[3] TenantBase Proprietary Market Data (Dashboard Export: SEO Market Reports spok, July 1, 2026)

Information in this report is aggregated from various third-party sources and synthesized using artificial intelligence and other research tools. While we believe these sources to be reliable, we cannot guarantee the absolute accuracy or completeness of the data. This report is intended for informational purposes to provide market insight and should be independently verified prior to any use in a real estate transaction or legal commitment.