The Puebla industrial market had closed 2021 with an annual demand of 90 thousand square meters, higher than that registered in previous periods, which means that the vacancy for April 2022 has decreased to 2%, amid prices of rising rent that have registered an annual increase of 8.2% in the rental price.

The current vacancy average describes two different realities where submarkets such as Huejotzingo y Autopista México-Puebla, which concentrate 93% of the inventory, have a vacancy of 1.9% and 1.5%, while the Puebla-Tlaxcala submarket exceeds 8%. of vacant spaces with respect to its inventory, totaling about 12 thousand square meters.

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The distance that separates this entity from the capital of the country of 157 kilometers of roads, for a journey of just over two hours, configures it as an important distribution hub to the east with Hidalgo and to the Port of Veracruz, a modern commercial link. infrastructure that places it as a national leader in the agricultural, automotive and container sectors towards the Gulf of Mexico.

Cases such as that of Pepsico, which announced in the last quarter of 2021 the investment of 1.7 billion pesos in its new logistics center in Huejotzingo, which will allow it to solve the distribution and product exchange needs for the central and southeastern regions of the country, they are referents of the logistical potential in the entity.

Another phenomenon observed during the tours of the last quarter is the emergence of class B warehouses that once built allow their commercialization by fractions, this being a highly desirable real estate product for small distribution centers.

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This is the case of the Jint Industrial Park, on the Mexico-Puebla highway corridor, where a 5,000-square-meter speculative warehouse is currently under construction, which is not yet available on the market.

Currently only a few industrial buildings are available, ranging in size from 2.5 to 12.5 thousand square meters and the constructions that are in process barely reach 18 thousand square meters.

In the event that demand continues to advance at the rate we were able to observe in 2021, the market would be requiring greater investments, so the options that are now being built would be insufficient, thus projecting increases in rental prices in the midst of an environment of high inflation.

The scenario projected for mid-2022 points to the arrival of new investments where availability is decreasing in both class A and B spaces.