Commercial Real Estate Market in Gainesville, FL
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
516 active listings and 4,955 off-market properties in Gainesville, FL. Commercial property asks $199/SF to buy and $17.00/SF/Yr to lease.
Market Trends
Gainesville, FL spans 313.4 square miles in Alachua County, Florida. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Office space in Gainesville, FL has a median asking sale price of $184/SF. Vacancy runs 20.2% across the South region in 2025, up from 14.4% in 2019.
Retail
Retail space in Gainesville, FL asks $47.19/SF/Yr to lease; the median asking sale price is $234/SF. Vacancy runs 5.4% across the South region in 2025, down from 7% in 2020.
Industrial
Industrial space in Gainesville, FL has a median asking sale price of $189/SF (based on 7 listings). Vacancy runs 7.9% across the South region in 2025, up from 6% in 2019. Nearly 2.3x the 2022 low of 3.5%.
Multifamily
Multifamily space in Gainesville, FL has a median asking sale price of $169/SF. Vacancy runs 11.3% across the South region in 2025, up from 8.5% in 2022.
Zoning & Land Use
Land Use Mix share of zoned land by category
- Residential 34.2%
- Open space 11.2%
- Industrial 9.1%
- Planned_development 7.9%
- Mixed use 5.8%
- Special 3.8%
- Civic 2.6%
- Commercial 0.3%
Largest Zones share of zoned land by district
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Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Gainesville, FL has 222,180 residents in 100,641 households. Density runs 709 people per square mile. Median household income here is $58,176 and median gross rent $1,299 a month.
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Nearby Markets
Commercial property in Gainesville, FL asks $199/SF. The 2 bordering markets run from $177/SF in Hawthorne to $583/SF in Micanopy, and the city sits below their $380/SF median.
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Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 174 active for-sale and 342 active for-lease listings in Gainesville, FL. The medians are based on 103 of the for-sale and 126 of the for-lease listings, those that state a price or rent per square foot. These are ASKING figures from live listings, not closed-transaction prices, and a figure resting on fewer than 10 listings says so where it is quoted.
- Vacancy rates
- Published per-sector market series, taken at the metro level where one exists and otherwise at the Census-region level — a chart reading "in <region> region" is a regional number, not this city's.
- Zoning and land use
- The current municipal zoning release: 35,687 zoned acres across 38 districts. Shares are of zoned land, so parcels the release leaves unclassified are excluded from the mix.
- Refresh
- The monthly aggregates close at the end of the previous month, so 31 October 2026 — not today — is the honest last update.
- Known limitations
- office vacancy is reported at South region level, retail vacancy is reported at South region level and industrial vacancy is reported at South region level.
- Coverage
- Metrics below the 10-observation threshold fall back one geographic level. The geography used is named on each figure.
Compiled by the Realmo Data team · reviewed 31 October 2026 · How Realmo checks market page data · Report a data issue
