A steep slide in commercial building pulled down total North Texas construction activity in October.

That’s been the trend for most of 2018, according to the latest report from Dodge Data & Analytics.

Nonresidential building starts plunged 63 percent in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in October from a year earlier.

So far in 2018, commercial building D-FW has fallen 34 percent from this time last year.

Steve Brown, Real Estate Editor