Comment of the Day: How Close Are Those New Apartment Complexes?
“I wonder how much the apartment supply in the south areas (below the medical center and rice u) affect the apartment supply along Buffalo Bayou, Midtown, Montrose, and Upper Kirby? From the site...
View ArticleHouston Rent Deals
A broker tells reporter Amy Wolff Sorter that no new multifamily apartments — beyond the 14,000 units currently “in the pipeline” — are likely to be built in the Houston area until 2012. MPF Research...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Mining the Tax Records
“Here’s my method to determine medium-term appreciation rates: 1. Look up a given house in HCAD.org. Make note of the current year’s appraised value. 2. Click the View link for the Harris County Tax...
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Houston Real Estate in June: Top of the Summer to You!
“The increase in local unemployment reported this week is sickening,” reports Swamplot’s local financial correspondent. But don’t the latest HAR numbers show Houston home prices at some sort of record...
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Flushing Foreclosures Through the System: What’s Lurking in the Line?
HAR’s real estate sales report for July is out! And Swamplot’s housing-market reader-analyst uses the data to piece together a better picture of Houston’s still-somewhat-mysterious foreclosure scene:...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Where the Skyscrapers Will Be Built
“. . . in a century or two, Houston will be very densely populated. . . . I think Houston is relatively lucky to have street grids across most parts of the city, as opposed to the suburban lollipops...
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Houston Real Estate Postseason Wrapup: Foreclosures Still Hanging Around
HAR is out with its September home-sales figures, giving Swamplot’s spreadsheet-side correspondent a chance to eulogize the spring-summer selling season: Home prices and volumes are flying south for...
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Houston Real Estate Market Doing Much, Much Better Than Last October
Swamplot’s chart-wielding analyst is back with a few comments on the Houston Association of Realtors’ latest report and media push: Median and average home sales prices fell $7,200 from the prior...
View ArticleCrowding the Houston Dinner Plate
“According to USDA maps, we still have about 3.2 million acres of prime farmland within 100 miles of Houston. We can’t produce everything we like and want to eat. No cacao trees for chocolate here, for...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Reading the Washington Ave Crystal Ball
“Eventually people will get sick of having no place to park and the hot spot will move on. Prediction is for Brixx to go out of business within six months, Eight will turn into a restaurant within a...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Here Come the Almeda Promoters
“Washington ave is already done. . . . Whats next you ask….Almeda (59 to med center)….two bars opening right now and four more planned on the way. Wide streets, lots of empty places to park, a...
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Could Glenn Beck Bring Independence to Texas?
“If you really wanna pass on the secrets, if you really wanna pass on truth, embed it in architecture,” says Glenn Beck in the January 10 episode of the Blaze. “That’s what I intend on doing.” The...
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