Tierra Grande

April 2017

In This Issue

High-Speed Rail in Texas

Real Estate Crowdfunding

Household Debt

East Austin Development

Rural Land and Commodity Prices

Condemnation and Tax Savings

Home Price Discounts

Features

Land Markets

5 minute read

Apr 04 2017

Real Estate Crowdfunding

What's the Buzz?

Ready for the next big thing on the internet? Maybe it is real estate "crowdfunding." In the past, investors interested in real estate faced a daunting mission as they embarked...

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Land Markets

5 minute read

Mar 22 2017

In Sync

Rural Land Prices Mirror Commodity Values

This is the second article of two focusing on Texas commodities (most notably oil, cotton, cattle, and corn) and how the prices of those products affect land prices. Real Estate...

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7 minute read

Mar 02 2017

Change and Challenges

East Austin's Affordable Housing Problem

The rapidly rising price of single-family homes in East Austin has left homeownership out of reach for its existing low-income population. From 2011 to 2015, growth rates of home sales...

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6 minute read

Feb 27 2017

Economic Edge

Lower Debt Benefits Borrowers and Businesses

When household incomes are not sufficient to pay cash for big-ticket items such as homes and cars, people borrow money and promise to repay the loans. On a macro level,...

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10 minute read

Feb 02 2017

Courts, Trains, and Eminent Domain

If you live in Houston and Grandma lives in Dallas, visiting her might get a little easier if Texas Central gets its way. Instead of driving three or four hours...

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2 minute read

Jan 30 2017

Losses and Self-Employment Taxes

Owners of profitable income-producing real estate cannot offset their net income by unrelated business losses of a spouse when computing self-employment (SE) taxes.

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Home Price Discounts in Texas Housing Markets

6 minute read

Jan 30 2017

Home Price Discounts in Texas Housing Markets

Home sellers and buyers usually face a number of uncertainties during the selling and buying processes. True market values of properties are always in question, as is the relative strength of supply and demand in local real estate markets in any period, sellers’ information about the properties versus buyers’ information, and many other issues.

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April 2017

April 2017

Features

Real Estate Crowdfunding

In Sync

Change and Challenges

Economic Edge

Courts, Trains, and Eminent Domain

Losses and Self-Employment Taxes

Home Price Discounts in Texas Housing Markets

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