If you are searching for commercial property for sale in Houston, the listings are half the picture. The asking price tells you what a seller wants; it does not tell you what the lease structure, the deferred maintenance, or the zoning actually let you do with the asset. Core CRE runs Houston investment sales from both sides of the transaction — helping buyers find and underwrite the right property, and helping sellers position and close on theirs — under one licensed Texas brokerage.

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Buying commercial property for sale in Houston

Buy-side investment sales representation starts before you ever tour a building. We work with you to define acquisition criteria — asset type, submarket, size band, tenancy profile, and hold period — so the properties you look at are actually candidates, not just what happens to be listed this month.

Off-market sourcing. Not every seller lists publicly first. Part of the search is direct outreach to owners and other brokers on assets that fit your criteria before they hit a marketplace, widening the pool beyond what a portal search for “commercial property for sale Houston” will surface on its own.

Underwriting support. Reading what you are actually buying — for a leased asset, the rent roll, lease term remaining, renewal options, escalation structure, and the credit quality behind the tenants; for an owner-user purchase, zoning, condition, and expansion capacity. Underwriting is what separates a good number on a flyer from a good deal.

Negotiation and diligence. Offer strategy, contract terms, inspection and title periods, survey and environmental review, and the coordination that keeps a closing on schedule. Diligence exists to find the reason not to buy — a broker who never surfaces one isn’t doing it.

Selling or disposing of commercial property in Houston

Sell-side representation means we work for the owner, starting well before anything goes to market. That includes positioning the asset for the buyer profile it actually suits, assembling the rent roll and operating history a serious buyer will request, and addressing fixable issues — short remaining lease term, an open title item, deferred maintenance — before they become a price reduction in someone else’s diligence.

Disposition and 1031 timing often move together. If a sale is meant to fund a tax-deferred purchase, the replacement search should start alongside the listing, not after the sale closes — see the role-clarity note below.

Property types

Houston investment sales activity spans retail (single-tenant and shopping-center), office, industrial and flex, land, and NNN-leased assets where the income is backed by a tenant’s lease rather than owner-operated use. Each carries a different underwriting question — retail turns on co-tenancy and CAM recovery, industrial on clear height and dock access, land on entitlement and utility availability, NNN on lease term and tenant credit. The right question depends on the asset, which is why criteria come before the tour.

Finding a 1031 replacement property

Investors selling one Houston commercial property to acquire another frequently ask about a Section 1031 exchange. Here is the role, stated plainly: Core CRE is a licensed Texas real estate brokerage — not a qualified intermediary, tax advisor, or attorney, and we do not hold or handle exchange funds. Our part is the replacement-property search itself: sourcing candidates that fit your criteria and timeline, and running underwriting and diligence on what we find. A 1031 exchange defers capital-gains tax under IRS timing rules — it does not eliminate it, and eligibility, the 45/180-day clock, and fund handling are matters for your qualified intermediary and your own CPA or attorney. If you don’t have one yet, ask and we can point you toward one; we don’t provide that advice ourselves.

One brokerage, two Texas brands

Core CRE and Core Properties TX operate under the same licensed Texas brokerage — Core Properties, TREC Brokerage License #9014736, Designated Broker Linh Luong, License #687812. Core CRE handles the commercial side; Core Properties TX handles residential. If your situation crosses both — selling a commercial holding and buying residential, or the reverse — that coordination happens under the same brokerage rather than a referral to an outside firm.

Commercial property for sale in Houston — common questions

How do I find off-market commercial property in Houston?
Off-market inventory doesn’t show up on a portal search. It comes from defining your acquisition criteria first, then direct outreach to owners and other brokers on assets that fit — sourcing and screening before anything reaches a public listing. That search runs alongside, not instead of, tracking what is publicly listed.

Do you represent buyers or sellers?
Both, one side at a time on a given transaction. We tell you which side we’re on before the engagement starts. Where an intermediary relationship arises, Texas law requires the written agreement of each party, disclosed on the IABS form before anything proceeds.

Can you help with a 1031 replacement property?
Yes — the search, underwriting, and diligence on candidate properties. Core CRE is a brokerage, not a qualified intermediary, tax advisor, or attorney; we don’t hold exchange funds or advise on exchange mechanics. Timing, eligibility, and fund handling go through your qualified intermediary and your own CPA or attorney, ideally engaged before your current property goes under contract.

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Looking for commercial property for sale in Houston, or ready to list one? Tell us the situation and we’ll tell you which side of it we’d be on. For the fuller picture on how buy-side and sell-side engagements run across all three Texas markets we cover, see Acquisition & Disposition.