The document summarizes commercial real estate trends in the Fort Bend submarket for Q3 2013. It finds that the office vacancy rate decreased from 30.5% to 26.8% with positive absorption of 81,000 square feet. The industrial vacancy rate also decreased from 7.4% to 5.6% with year-to-date absorption of 312,000 square feet. Meanwhile, the retail market posted 35,800 square feet of positive absorption, keeping the average vacancy rate steady at 5.0%.