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- ‘Best Places to Live’ List Got Weird
- ‘But They Said’: Why You Always Read Contracts Before Signing
- ‘Come and Take It’ in Gonzales and ‘Thump’ in Luling
- ‘Czeching’ In With Our Roving Reporter
- ‘Heck of an idea’
- ‘Skunk at a picnic’
- ‘Ain’t no (Texas) mountain high enough’
- ‘Tis the season for house fires
- (Don’t) Curb your enthusiasm
- (Virtual) Reality bites: VR in real estate
- <i>Loper Bright</i> Could Be a Watershed Moment
- $200,000 Isn’t What it Used to Be
- 12 tips for staying safe at open houses
- 2016 Texas Economy: Three Things to Watch
- 2024 Strong Year (So Far) for Dallas Luxury Home Market
- 89th Texas Legislature
- A Chicken in Every Pot and Four Cars in Every Driveway
- A home for the ages
- A Railroad Runs Through It
- A Year of The 338
- Advice for young real estate agents
- Agrihoods on the Rise
- AI, Land, and Power: Inside Texas’ Data Center Explosion
- An ‘App’-ropriate Way to Kick Off Deer Season
- An unusual request
- And Then There Were Ten
- Another good year ahead for Texas, especially for housing
- Are Blind Boxes Just Toys?
- Are Manufacturing Jobs Coming Back?
- Are REITs On the Mend?
- Are the BLS Employment Numbers Right?
- Are you anti-social (media)? Probably not if you’re in real estate
- Bad Fences, Bad Neighbors
- Barbecue and Bald Eagles in Llano, Texas
- Behind the Scenes of America’s Largest Ranch Sale
- Best Cities to Sell Real Estate
- Big smiles mean big deals around Big D
- Boomtowns and Dry Creeks: A Journey Through a Changing Texas Hill Country
- Breaking Down the Numbers Behind Capital Gains Taxes
- Building a barndominium: Finding a general contractor
- Building a barndominium: How to finance it and where to build
- Building a barndominium: Ideas, designs, and layout
- Building a barndominium: Our story
- Building a barndominium: Time to move in!
- Building a barndominium: What about the details?
- Building materials are 25 percent of new home sales price
- Businesses of a Feather Flock Together
- Buying a ‘pad’ in the ’50s
- Buying a home in a flood-prone area? Do some homework first
- Can Opendoor cash in on Texas?
- Can Texas Manufacturers Get There from Here?
- Can Texas Win in Reindustrialization?
- Case of the Gobbled Goldfish
- Castroville and Hondo: Preserving the Past, Building the Future
- Charmed, I’m Sure: Pricing a Home to Sell
- Climbing the social (media) ladder
- Clover there! Clover there!
- Comment dit-on ‘Jack and Jill bathroom’ en français?
- Cowboys, Clean Cities, and Commutes
- Cramping our fracking style
- Cross-Country Relocation
- Cruising the Coast: A Journey Through Matagorda Bay Region
- CTA Tug-of-War: Trump Treasury Department Loosens Its Grip As Court Battles Loom
- Dayton and Liberty: Two Houston Exurbs With Small-Town Charm
- Deck Your Walls with Our 2016 Calendar
- Déjà Vu All Over Again for Today’s Young Homebuyers?
- Déjà Vu? What to Expect From the Housing Market in 2025’s Final Stretch
- Digital Twins are Changing the Game in Real Estate
- Dirt Road Dilemma: Easements and Access in Texas Law
- Do Election Cycles Affect Home Sales and Prices?
- Do Investors Flood Housing Markets After Natural Disasters?
- Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?
- Does Texas Have the Energy to Reindustrialize?
- Domestic Migration and Wealth: Texas’ Ongoing Boom
- Don’t let holiday shopping tangle your tinsel
- Donut Effect, Houston-Style: Harris County’s Residential Outflow to Neighboring Suburbs
- Economic and Population Shifts in the ‘Houston Hamptons’
- Economic expansion sets record
- Economic issues facing the new president
- Eek! These terrifying Texas properties will give you the heebie-jeebies
- End of the Road: What I Learned From Small Towns in Texas
- Everybody Gets a Trophy . . . Almost
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Muleshoe . . . and Other Texas Cities
- Everything’s ‘funner’ in Texas
- Expanding our reach in 2018
- Exploring Texas’ Semiconductor Corridor
- Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
- Feeling crabby? A bigger home may help
- Finding the purrrr-fect home for you (and Fido, too!)
- First-time homebuyers and the bank of mom and dad
- Five questions new CRE brokers should ask themselves
- Five things you didn’t know about the Real Estate Center
- For Pete’s Sake, Let’s Just Home-School the Kids
- Free Electricity and Some Not-So-Bright Home-Marketing Gimmicks
- Free land (data)
- From Yoponderosa to Network Powerhouse: A Brief History of the Aggie Real Estate Network and MRE Program
- Fun and Games . . . and Lots of People
- Getting started in real estate investment
- Good Bull! Takeaways from Aggie Real Estate Network Annual Conference
- Good, bad home renovations
- Growth and Change North of the Houston Sprawl
- Happy Burst-Day, Housing Bubble!
- Happy Trails, Judon
- Has it really been 40 years already?
- Helping Texans through relevant research
- Highland Lakes on the Rise
- Home Energy Usage: Prepare to be Shocked
- Home Field Economic Advantage?
- Housing Affordability In Limbo
- Houston housing: A year after Harvey
- Houston knocks one outta the ballpark
- How Age and Income Influence State-to-State Moves
- How far is it to the nearest H-E-B?
- How Opportunity Zone 2.0 Legislation Provides a Much-Needed Upgrade
- How Political Pressure on the Fed Could Impact Real Estate Affordability
- How the Cottage Food Industry is Stirring Up Success for Rural Texans
- How U.S. Tax Reform Could Impact the Texas Economy
- How Viable and Cost-Effective Are 3D-Printed Homes?
- How We Track Small Land Tracts in Texas
- How Will the Downgrading of U.S. Debt Rating Affect Mortgage Rates?
- I Took My Copilot to the BLS
- I’m dreaming of a highly regulated, HOA-approved Christmas
- If a photo is worth a thousand words . . .
- Impact of Increasing Electricity Demand on Commercial Real Estate in Texas
- In search of Tierra Grande on a Saturday afternoon
- Industrial Construction is Up, But There’s Still Room to Improve
- International homebuying activity goes down
- Inventory and Price Growth: Applying the Phillips Curve to Housing Cycles
- Is Planned Hiring Signaling a Recession?
- Is the Low-Rate Lock-In Grip Finally Loosening?
- It’s All About the Bass
- Just because it’s Tuesday
- Keeping Main Street Going
- Key to economic growth? More education, more training
- Ladders, Lovebirds, and Other Life Lessons
- Last call for the mall?
- Legal Q&A: To Heir is Human . . . But How Do You Find Them?
- Life on the Dark Side
- Lights. Camera. Welcome mat.
- Little Bitty in a Big City: Seabrook and Kemah
- Living at the Office
- Living in a doghouse? You have company
- Lockhart: The Barbecue Capital of Texas
- Looking ahead: The link between oil and land prices
- Lower Property Taxes? Be Careful What You Wish For
- Making a run for the border
- Manufacturing and Water Usage: Why One Price Doesn’t Fit All
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . .
- Mexico Means Business for Texas
- Mining Gold from Research
- Moonscape: Selling unreal estate
- More people are coming to Texas, but do we have enough homes?
- More Room to Work
- Mortgage Portability: A Win for Locked-In Homeowners, But at What Price?
- Moving the Goal Posts on Housing Affordability
- NAFTA, tariffs, and other trade deficit ‘solutions’
- NAR vs. DOJ: NAR Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case in Antitrust Showdown
- New Texans Keep Coming, But Not as Fast
- No fuel like an old fuel
- Not clickbait: Center social media presence blossoms
- Notes from a Windshield Surveyor
- Notes from the Research Roundtable
- Oil and Opportunity in the Brush Country
- Oil prices whipsaw
- On the Road in Fulshear
- Our Website Users Have Spoken
- Our website: So easy even a caveman can use it
- Out of Office? Few Options in College Station-Bryan
- Out of thin air
- Planning a Halloween Movie Night? We’ve Scared Up Some Titles For You
- Population Estimate ‘Vintages’ and Revisions
- Presentation counts
- Property Tax Protest Do’s and Don’ts
- Putting a life back together after Hurricane Harvey
- Quantifying Higher Mortgage Rates’ Effect on Housing Affordability
- Quick points on Harvard’s housing study
- Racing to Build Texas’ ‘Boomtowns’: New Construction Keeps Pace with Surging Migration
- Rainy Days and Mondays Don’t Get Buyers Down
- Reaching New Heights in Houston
- Real estate agent’s role changing from information broker to trusted advisor
- Real Estate Loans are Down From a Year Ago. Here are Three Reasons Why.
- Recent Developments in Texas Property Taxes (with an Emphasis on Cities)
- Recent Developments in Texas Property Taxes (with an Emphasis on Counties)
- Recent Developments in Texas Property Taxes (with an Emphasis on School Taxes)
- Recent Developments in Texas Property Taxes: Special Purpose Districts
- Recent HUD Update Could Significantly Impact Manufactured Home Construction
- RECON Readers Respond: Sprucing Up Your Listing
- Renovate, replace, recoup?
- Research ’roundtable’: The economy will remain positive in 2019, but . . .
- Researching Tax Issues? Visit Our Research Library
- Resilient and Resurgent, Welcome to Rockport-Fulton
- Rise of the AI-Assisted Shopper: What Drove 2025’s Holiday Retail Records
- Robots, A.I., and the future of economic growth
- Round Top: A Small Town with a Big Impact on the Arts, Architecture, and Antiques
- Same song, second verse: ‘Is there a housing market price bubble?’
- Seguin Unshelled and Flourishing Floresville
- Selling Lakeside Property? New Paperwork Required
- Shopping for rural property: Location, property rights, leases, and undivided interests
- Shopping for rural property: Minerals, restrictive covenants, the environment, and taxes
- Six things to watch for in Texas real estate this week
- Slicing the real estate pie 100,000 ways
- Smithville in the Spotlight
- So You Want to Add on a Room?
- So, how’s flipping going?
- Solar Boom: How Texas’ Rural Land is Powering the Future
- Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: Comparing 2018 to 2025
- Still, it beat the duck-and-cover strategy
- Sweating the Energy Details Pays Off
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: A first look at the mortgage interest deduction
- Taxes, tariffs, and Texas migration
- Tech’s Biggest Names Find a Home in Bastrop
- Texas Agricultural Economy’s Biggest Challenges
- Texas beefing up for Chinese
- Texas bucks best-month-to-sell-a-house trend
- Texas Domestic Migration: County Gains and Declines
- Texas economy getting back on solid ground
- Texas housing affordability waning
- Texas Housing Update
- Texas HPI Shows Prices Up 1.9 Percent in December 2024
- Texas Manufacturing Needs Power People
- Texas real estate licensees by the numbers
- Texas small businesses weathering COVID-19 better than other large states
- Texas taxes: No easy answers
- Texas Wildfires & Homeowners Insurance
- Texas-Mexico border traffic slows to a halt during travel restrictions
- Texas’ New-Home Market Still on Top
- The cost of building regulations
- The Court Case That Will Have Developers Rethinking Their Deed Restrictions
- The disappearing middle: U.S. job polarization
- The fast and the (hopefully not too) furious
- The Future of Produced Water Recycling in Texas
- The Housing Market: A Look Back at 2025 and What’s Ahead
- The mystery of the murdered economic expansion
- The Perils of Plumbing
- The readers always write
- The Rich Histories and Evolving Economies of Goliad and Victoria
- The Shrinking New Home Price Premium
- The taxman goeth
- The three wise chairmen: Notes from Fed chairs past and present
- The Trade War and the Outlook for Interest Rates
- The yield curve’s predictive powers
- Thinking of getting a real estate license? Consider these realities
- Three haunted Texas properties that’ll make your spine tingle
- Three housing market signals worth watching
- Tierra Grande readers speak out
- Timeshare tales and tips
- Tracking Texas job growth
- Trek Through Texas’ ‘Second Hill Country’
- TRERC, Realtor.com, and Zillow: Why don’t the numbers add up?
- Trust is based on perception, not a 51-year history
- Two cars in every garage, six chickens in every yard?
- Under starry skies above: Texas’ largest landowners
- Unwrapping 2024’s Holiday Spending Spree
- We’re renovating Tierra Grande!
- We’re Taking Our Show on the Road
- We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
- What a difference a hurricane makes
- What are the immediate impacts of a shutdown on real estate markets?
- What Could This Week’s Mortgage Rate Drop Mean for Texas Homebuyers and Sellers?
- What is the Impact of Rate-Locked Buyers on Residential Sales?
- What Motivates Where Millennials Live?
- What should we expect from the tax bill?
- What’s keeping nominal wages down?
- What’s Shaping Texas’ International Migration Trends?
- What’s your H2O IQ?
- What’s Your Landlord-Tenant IQ?
- What’s Holding Back Office-to-Residential Conversions in Texas?
- When a Fix Becomes a Fight: HB 21 Heads to Court
- When disaster strikes
- When disaster strikes: Hurricane Harvey
- When disaster strikes: Hurricane Katrina
- When disaster strikes: National Flood Insurance Program in Texas
- When disaster strikes: Winter Storm Uri
- When looking at housing data, don’t jump to conclusions
- When picking college, check out neighborhood, too
- Where Do Mortgage Rates Go From Here?
- Where the Bugs Are (with apologies to Connie Francis)
- Which Texas metros are best for real estate agents?
- Which Tierra Grande article was ‘most useful’ in 2017?
- Who let the dog out?
- Who You Gonna Call? Dustbusters!
- Who’s Being Left Behind?
- Whose Water Is It Anyway? Supreme Court Addresses Produced Water
- Will Texas’ Housing Market Momentum Continue?
- Wind and Solar Power and Their Impact on the Value of Nearby Properties
- Would Fed Rate Cuts Bring Down Mortgage Rates?
- Write It Down: Lessons from a Current Texas Court Case
- WSJ Calls Texas ‘a Drag,’ but Facts Tell Different Story
- Yesterday’s interest rate cut could have psychological impact on homebuyers
- You Gotta Tawk the Tawk When Buying Texas Real Estate
- Youthful Texas weighs on homeownership
