The four Bajio markets monitored by the Solili platform accumulate gross industrial demand, in the first 10 months of 2023 that almost reaches 880 thousand square meters. Although the figure is still 33% lower than that reported in the same period of 2022, throughout the year various approaches have been made from companies that are still in the evaluation phase and that are likely to reflect demand figures in the first quarter of 2024.

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Querétaro y Guanajuato continue to maintain the lead with accumulated demand figures of 343 and 289 square meters, respectively.

In the first three quarters of 2023. The demand for Class A ships in Querétaro represents 63% of the total accumulated between January and September 2023. So far in 2023, about half of the demand has been concentrated in sizes smaller than 2 thousand square meters while in the same period of 2022 the areas are concentrated in surfaces above 5 thousand square meters.

This year, requests for industrial spaces have been arriving from multiple suppliers that make up the main clusters developed in Queretaro. The Airport corridor concentrates 41% of the demand between January and September 2023, followed by the Mexico - Querétaro corridor with 38%.

In Guanajuato, companies in the logistics, automotive, energy, and manufacturing sectors dominate the demand of the first three quarters of 2023 in a variety of parks, where Vymsa León, Vymsa A Paseo Pocket Park, Amexhe, Santa Fe Puerto Interior, Advance Santa Fe I stand out, Sky Plus and Vesta Park Guanajuato, among the main ones. The requested surfaces range from 800 to 25 thousand square meters. In the case of Guanajuato, 88% of the ships in demand are Class A, exceeding the participation of this category when compared to Querétaro.

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San Luis Potosí continues to maintain an important presence of the automotive sector, although the logistics sector increases its participation in relation to the demand for industrial warehouses in the first three quarters of 2023. The surfaces range from 864 to 21 thousand square meters and 53% corresponds to Class A industrial warehouses.

Finally, the case of Aguascalientes, although it has the smallest number of industrial transactions in the Bajío, involves a larger size of industrial warehouses that are between 11 and 16.5 thousand square meters. In this case, the logistics and automotive sectors also distribute industrial demand equally between January and September 2023.

These trends seem to be projected towards the figures for the last quarter of the year where we will have to wait to see if the difference can be reached that allows the Bajío to maintain the figure registered at the end of 2022, or we are facing a scenario of slowing demand growth.