- Savills continues Houston hiring spree with top industrial team [HBJ] $
- Open for business: Hospitals, universities, private firms pour money into TMC development [HBJ] $
- $50M expansion of Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center to begin this year [HBJ] $
- Houston warehouses, construction projects face supply chain disruption as Coronavirus spreads [BisNow]
- Virus fears push mortgage rates even lower [Chron] $
- Target to move into former Randalls space on Westheimer @ Shepherd [Chron] $
- The homebuying closing process, demystified [Chron] $
- $7.3M construction of Pasadena municipal courthouse may finish in June [Chron] $
- Earning a place at the table: how these Houston women got in construction [BisNow]
Month: February 2020
The Air That We Breathe
- Fast-growing residential firm Compass expands foothold in The Woodlands [HBJ] $
- Weingarten Realty announces changes to tenant mix at River Oaks Shopping Center [Chron] $
- Hicks Ventures and Taconic Capital Advisors reveal plans for West Loop South office tower $6M redo [RealtyNewsReport]
- Q4 2019: E Fort Bend Commercial Real Estate Trends [Colliers International]
- EIP Report: Houston has 10 of the most toxic industrial polluters in the U.S. [HoustonPublicMedia]
- Hope City church moving forward with silos real estate project [Chron] $
- Open office concept isn’t dead, but requires a lot of care and attention [BisNow]
- A look inside Houston’s most lavish and expensive penthouses [Chron] $
- EXP relocates to Westway Plaza [ReCon]
Need for Speed to Cost More
- MetroNational breaks ground on office tower in Memorial City [HBJ] $
- Backfilling a Class AAA office tower [RealtyNewsReport]
- John Daugherty Realtors name to go away as sale to Douglas Elliman deal falters [Chron] $
- Caldwell Cos opening new condo offices near Towne Lake this summer [Chron] $
- Three things to know about Houston real estate right now [HoustonPublicMedia]
- Higher prices, faster speeds part of Houston’s ‘tougher approach’ to HOV lanes [Chron] $
- TMC welcomes Susan & Fayez Sarofim Pavilion [ReCon]
- Palmetto MDR to open the first units of Cottage Green [ReCon]
- CoStar Group 2019 Net Income Increases 32% Year-over-Year on Revenue Growth of 17% [CoStar]
- Real estate stocks fall in Coronovirus-related sell-off [BisNow]
- Wallet Hub: Texas is 7th-priciest state for property taxes [BisNow]
- MIT: landlords can’t quit on coworking [BisNow]
Black i for Zillow’s iBuyer
- NorthMarq arranges $28.5M refi for SmithCo Development’s Champions Forest Plaza [HBJ] $
- Boston-based TA Realty buys East Belt Business Park in southeast Houston [HBJ] $
- Zillow’s iBuyer losses are rising as it seeks scale [Chron] $
- Historic Preservation Winners: Houston Gold Brick Awards [RealtyNewsReport]
- RNR Real Estate Briefs from Houston et al [RealtyNewsReport]
- Water billing mess has Pearland scrambling to plug $6M budget gap [Chron] $
- Museum-like, lakefront Woodlands mansion hits the market at $2.4M [Chron] $
Tilman Strikes Again
- Katy-based Newmark Homes returns to Austin after more than a decade [HBJ] $
- Dallas-based coworking company Fuse Workspace opens first Houston location in CityCentre [HBJ] $
- Houston’s CBD was the most expensive Texan office submarket in 2019 [BisNow]
- This week’s deal sheet [BisNow]
- Caldwell Cos developing 56k-sf office condo project in Cypress [RealtyNewsReport]
- Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta stakes claim on bankrupt steakhouse restaurants [HBJ] $
- San Jacinto River Authority Board approves compromise in battle over lowering Lake Conroe [Chron] $
- Inspection is critical step in the home-buying process [Chron] $
Mini Mural Monday
Just When You Thought the Feral Hog Stories Couldn’t get any Bigger
- Houston developer Hunington Properties gets $38M loan for mixed-use project in Washington Avenue Corridor [HBJ] $
- Fuse Coworking to open in CityCentre [RealtyNewsReport]
- Mansion planned for long-vacant River Oaks lot [Chron] $
- Michael Hsu thinks smaller as his presence grows [BisNow]
- Pelican Builders’ Upper Kirby luxury midrise set to open this summer [HoustonCultureMap]
- How escrow and closing work for Houston homebuyers [Chron] $
- They both sued the Army Corps after Harvey flooding in Houston. So why did only one win? [Chron] $
- HCA Houston Healthcare plans 48K-sf Pearland training center [ReCon]
- Acclaimed chefs Christine Ha and Tony J Nguyen bringing elevated Vietnamese food to Washington Avenue Corridor [HBJ] $
- Tarkington men shoot and kill massive, nearly 500-pound feral hog in Liberty County [Chron] $
Affordable Housing Arguments Abound
- Global real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield buys Houston commercial real estate company Colvill Office Properties [HBJ] $
- Texas A&M to build $550 million complex in Texas Medical Center [Chron] $
- Millions of dollars are flowing into projects to transform Houston’s Westchase District [Chron] $
- Why affordable housing could soon be coming to Houston’s most expensive districts [Chron] $
- Houston lawmakers support slate of affordable housing projects amid environmental concerns [HoustonPublicMedia]
- Houston backs affordable housing tax credits, despite protests over certain neighborhoods [Chron] $
- ITEX Group’s proposed mixed-income development in Shady Acres concerns citizens [Leader]
- “Do not approach!’ Packs of feral hogs spotted at Seabrook Park [Chron] $
- US judge Loren A. Smith dismisses suit against Army Corps for post-Harvey flooding [HoustonPublicMedia]
- A luxury apartment rises in a poor neighborhood. What happens next? [HBJ] $