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Didenko Capital buys warehouses, IOS yards, and light-industrial and flex buildings in the Houston area. We buy warehouses in all states, including Texas and the Houston area.

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Selling in Houston comes with local rules. From land-use rules to environmental programs, this page sets out what a Houston seller should know: the City’s rules, the market’s numbers and submarkets, port and air cargo links, deed restrictions and property tax protests.

Houston Warehouses, IOS Yards, and Flex Buildings

We buy truck yards, trailer yards, container yards, and other industrial outdoor storage (IOS) sites in the Houston area. We buy manufacturing buildings and industrial land in the Houston area.

We buy buildings that are leased to tenants, owner-occupied, or vacant. Condition does not rule a property out. Want to stay in the building after you sell? Ask us about a sale-leaseback.

Cushman & Wakefield’s Q3 2026 report on the Houston industrial market calls warehouse/distribution the largest segment of Houston’s industrial market, with asking rents of $7.93 per sq ft. The same report says twenty leases of 250,000 sq ft or more were signed in the third quarter, together accounting for nearly 65.9% of leasing volume.

Houston Industrial Market Facts

Bar chart of 2023 warehousing and storage jobs in nine U.S. metro areas, with Houston highlighted at 38,935 jobs and 464 businesses (U.S. Census Bureau). — Houston ranks #6 of these 9 metros for warehousing and storage jobs (U.S. Census Bureau, 2023). Free to use with credit – see image use.

Land Use in the City of Houston

The City of Houston’s Planning and Development Department puts it this way: “The City of Houston does not have zoning, but development is governed by ordinance codes that address how property can be subdivided. The City codes do not address land use.”

The Department’s official zoning letter, dated January 6, 2026, says the City “does not have a city-wide comprehensive zoning ordinance” and describes two areas with their own rules. Land surrounding Houston’s airports, including George H. Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) and Ellington Airport (EFD), is subject to specific land use and height/hazard area regulations, and zoning regulations control the use of land within Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) No. 1, St. George Place. The letter does not address any separately filed restrictions that may be applicable to a property.

The Department describes deed restrictions as private agreements, binding upon every owner in a subdivision, that restrict the use or activities that may take place on property there; they appear in the real property records of the county where the property is located. In its words, a primary purpose of most deed restrictions is “preserving the residential character of a subdivision by keeping out commercial and industrial facilities,” while in Houston, “where property is not governed by deed restrictions, a property owner may be free to operate a commercial business in the neighborhood.”

Chapter 42: the City’s land development ordinance, covering subdivisions, development and platting. The Department checks subdivision plats against it, and checks development site plans for parking, tree and shrub requirements, setbacks, and access.
Lots and reserves: the Department says land in Houston is usually subdivided into residential lots, or into reserves for other purposes, such as commercial or any other unrestricted purpose.
Extra Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ): the City reviews plats in an area extending approximately five miles beyond Houston’s corporate limits into unincorporated parts of Harris, Fort Bend, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller counties. These areas are subject to platting requirements by state law, but not to the City’s permitting and building inspection regulations.

Sources: City of Houston, Planning and Development Department, Development Regulations, web page (no date printed; it links the 2026 zoning letter as ‘updated January 2026’); City of Houston, Planning and Development Department, Official City of Houston Zoning Letter, letter dated January 6, 2026 (PDF linked from Development Regulations as ‘No Zoning Letter and Boundary Map for 2026’); City of Houston, Planning and Development Department, Development Regulations: Frequently Asked Questions, web page (no date printed); City of Houston, Planning and Development Department, About Deed Restrictions, web page (no date printed).

Ask your attorney what that means for your building.

Houston Industrial Market: Q3 2026

Cushman & Wakefield’s MarketBeat Houston Industrial report for Q3 2026 gives these figures for the metro:

Inventory: 620,740,223 sq ft.
Vacancy: 6.3% overall, unchanged from the prior quarter and up 20 basis points from a year earlier.
Net absorption: 7,260,620 sq ft in the third quarter, the strongest quarterly figure since Q2 2022, and 18,608,290 sq ft year to date, more than the 13.1 million sq ft recorded in all of 2025.
Leasing: 14.6 million sq ft in the quarter, up 66.3% from the prior quarter, and 32.7 million sq ft year to date, against 33.8 million sq ft in all of 2025.
Asking rent: an average of $8.16 per sq ft, a record high per the report, up 5.0% from a year earlier.
Under construction: 19,591,680 sq ft, down from 23.0 million sq ft in the second quarter.
Completions: 7.6 million sq ft in the quarter and 21,764,390 sq ft year to date, above the 17.0 million sq ft completed in all of 2025.

These are one firm’s figures for one quarter.

Newer quarters and other reports may differ.

The Largest Houston Industrial Submarkets

The largest submarket areas in the report’s table, by inventory:

Submarket area	Inventory (sq ft)	Overall vacancy
Northwest	152,452,800	5.4%
Southeast	143,374,901	8.1%
North	105,516,263	6.6%
Southwest	70,701,214	2.9%
West	59,463,723	4.2%
South	48,250,073	7.2%
Northeast	40,760,000	10.3%

The Southeast (4.1 million sq ft), Northwest (3.8 million) and North (2.7 million) led leasing in the quarter, and the Northwest (6.3 million sq ft) and North (4.7 million) held 56.2% of the space under construction. The highest asking rents were in the Southwest ($9.28 per sq ft), South ($8.89) and Northwest ($8.72).

Source: Cushman & Wakefield, MarketBeat Houston Industrial, Q3 2026 (4-page PDF).

Port, Ship Channel and Air Cargo

Port Houston: 54,491,066 short tons of cargo across its public terminals in 2025, up 3%, and 4,303,345 TEUs of containers, up 4% on 2024 and a record year for container volumes.
Houston Ship Channel: more than 200 private and eight public terminals. Port Houston calls it by far the nation’s largest port for waterborne tonnage.
Bayport Container Terminal: just before the end of 2025, Port Houston completed Wharf 7 there, adding 1,000 feet of berth space and, with supporting infrastructure, more than half a million TEU of capacity.
George H. Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH): 2,315,849,612 lbs of all-cargo landed weight in 2025, up 21.62% from 2024 and 19th in the nation, per the Federal Aviation Administration’s final table.

Sources: Port Houston, Port Houston Celebrates Best Year Yet, news release dated January 30, 2026; Federal Aviation Administration, Final Calendar Year 2025 All-Cargo Landed Weight, IAH row, table dated 9/22/2026.

How It Works

Tell us about your property. Fill out the short form: the address, the property type, the size, and when you want to sell.
We look at it. We review the details and look at the property.
You get a cash offer.
You decide. Say yes and we sign a purchase agreement. Say no and you owe nothing.

There is no commission to us and no fee to us. Asking for an offer is free, and you are not committed to anything unless you sign a purchase agreement.

Selling a Warehouse in Houston: Frequently Asked Questions

Who buys warehouses directly from owners in Houston?

Direct buyers such as Didenko Capital. Didenko Capital is run by Yarik Didenko. We buy warehouses in all states, including Texas and the Houston area.

Does Houston have zoning?

The City of Houston’s official zoning letter says the City “does not have a city-wide comprehensive zoning ordinance.” The same letter says zoning regulations control the use of land within Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) No. 1, St. George Place, and that land surrounding Houston’s airports is subject to specific land use and height/hazard area regulations. Deed restrictions recorded in the county’s real property records can still restrict the use or activities that may take place on property in a subdivision. Ask your attorney before counting on a use.

Can I use a Houston lot as an outdoor storage (IOS) yard?

The City of Houston says its codes do not address land use, but its official zoning letter describes certain land use regulations for land surrounding Houston’s airports and within Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) No. 1, St. George Place. Where a property is governed by deed restrictions, those can restrict its use. Ask your attorney before counting on a use.

How do property tax protests work in Harris County?

In its May 6, 2026 release, the Harris Central Appraisal District (HCAD) said Harris County owners who disagreed with its market value had until May 15, or 30 days after the date on their property value notice, to protest, and that a later protest deadline would be printed on the value notice. HCAD says the easiest way to file is an account in its Electronic Filing and Notice System, that by law it must go by the postmark date on the envelope to determine if a protest was filed before the May 15 deadline, and that Texas law requires that property be appraised at its January 1 market value.

What about environmental history on an older Houston site?

Environmental history is part of how we price a property, not an automatic no. Houston Public Works says the City’s Municipal Settings Designation (MSD) program became effective November 1, 2007. An MSD prohibits the use of impaired shallow groundwater as potable water, which the City’s ordinance defines to include water used for drinking, bathing or cooking. The Texas Legislature authorized MSDs in 2003 to encourage redevelopment of vacant or abandoned properties while protecting the public health, and the City says an MSD does not remove any liability from the property owner. The City’s Brownfields Redevelopment Program lists Phase I and II environmental site assessments among its services, and its Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund offers low-interest or forgivable loans to clean up contaminated sites. Ask an environmental attorney or consultant about your site.

Is it a cash offer?

Yes. We make cash offers.

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Sources

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Sell Your Warehouse in Houston, TX