Southeast Austin · 183, McKinney Falls & the Tesla corridor · Flex industrial market insight · October 2026
Dee Gabriel Collins sits between US 183, McKinney Falls and the Tesla corridor, and it's where legacy landowners in Southeast Austin keep getting calls.
Zach Roesinger, designated broker of Roesinger LLC, is a South Austin–based commercial real estate broker specializing in flex-industrial, small-bay warehouse, industrial outdoor storage (IOS), land, and sale-leaseback and 1031 exchange transactions in Dee Gabriel Collins and US 183 South and across the Austin metro and Texas Triangle. He represents tenants, owners, sellers, buyers and investors.
| Austin metro industrial vacancy | ~15–16% (near record) |
| South Austin flex asking rent | ~$19/SF NNN |
| Southeast submarket vacancy | ~25–28% |
| Metro industrial cap rate | ~7.5% |
Metro and submarket figures from third-party reports, Q1–Q3 2026. Sources below.
The Southeast submarket has the highest big-box vacancy in the metro, at roughly 25–28%, after a wave of spec warehouses delivered. A developer buying land for another large distribution building pays less today than in 2022.
Industrial outdoor storage is the exception. Spec developers built buildings, not yards, and zoning makes new legal yards hard to create, so existing paved or stabilized lots hold value.
If you own acreage, get a highest-and-best-use read before you take the first offer. Truck and equipment yards, contractor storage, small-bay flex and residential can each beat the big-box price.
If you're renting a gravel lot for equipment, consider buying. You control your rent and improve the yard on your own schedule, and a stabilized yard with your company on a long lease is later exactly what institutional IOS buyers want.
Yards and small-bay flex, not spec boxes. Underwrite longer lease-up for anything empty.
Big-box warehouse land is the weakest use right now, with Southeast vacancy at ~25–28%. Yards, contractor storage, small-bay flex and residential are the uses still paying. Get an HBU read first.
IOS is the one industrial product Southeast Austin isn't oversupplied on. Owning gives you rent control and a future sale-leaseback to institutional IOS buyers.
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Current availability, asking and effective rents, recent sales, and what buyers and tenants are paying in Dee Gabriel Collins and US 183 South. Tell us whether you own, lease, or are looking, and Zach Roesinger will send the report.
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Sources: Newmark, Austin Industrial Market Report 2Q26 · ECR, Austin Industrial Market Report · Partners Real Estate, Austin Industrial Q1 2026 · Score Property Group, Austin Industrial Cap Rates 2026 (CoStar data) · Cushman & Wakefield, Austin Industrial MarketBeat
General market commentary from Roesinger LLC (TREC Broker License No. 04193-BENT), not an appraisal or a valuation of any specific property. Figures are metro or submarket level and change quarterly; verify before relying on them.