- Great Lakes Dredge & Dock to move headquarters from Chicago to Houston [HBJ] $
- Houston retail tenants, landlords brace for slower holiday shopping season [BisNow]
- Houston-based real estate company Stewart Information Services posts bump in sales [Chron] $
- Sugar Land Town Square redo underway by Lionstone [RealtyNewsReport]
- Menninger Psychiatric Hospital building outpatient facility in Houston [RealtyNewsReport]
- Michael Silva, Happen Houston guiding Houstonians through pandemic [TheLeader]
- See how the Katy-area real estate market fared in September 2020 [CI]
Author: The Good Life
TXDOT’s Transportation Real Estate: More Traffic, Same Space
- Slowed by pandemic, fast-growing coworking co. The Cannon eyes expansion in 2021 [HBJ] $
- Stage Stores liquidates stores, sells other real estate, IP assets amid bankruptcy [HBJ] $
- The Ralph Bivins Project: The great suburban land rush with Reed Vestal [RealtyNewsReport]
- Texas multifamily still attractive to global apartment investors [RealtyNewsReport]
- DC Partners targets mid-2021 for opening of The Allen Lifestyle Pavilion [BisNow]
- Pandemic out-of-office shift has lessons for long-remote CRE workers [BisNow]
- Houston approves lower tax rate for fiscal year 2020-21 amid calls for further reductions [CI]
- Shiny new toy: M-K-T development comes to life [TheLeader]
- TxDOT trading tolls for managed lanes as it lays out long-term plans [Chron] $
- Study: Kingwood Diversion Ditch, Taylor Gully projects could remove 449 structures from flow paths of 100-year storm [CI]
Compass Focuses on Houston with $20M Investment
- Fast-growing real estate firm Compass plans Memorial Green office [HBJ] $
- Leisure travel is helping Houston hotels, but full recovery is years away [BisNow]
- Grim picture for US malls as crisis in movies business takes toll [HBJ] $
- See this month’s featured neighborhood Del Lago Estates, plus year-over-year market data for Conroe, Montgomery [CI]
- Greater Houston region faces glut of industrial, commercial space and multifamily housing [CI]
- Real Estate Center gets ‘new’ name [ReCon]
Grant Walker: “It Seems Like More Tenants Paying Rent, and More Landlords Expecting it”
- Retail, restaurant tenants see end of rent forgiveness, deals in the works, experts say [HBJ] $
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise office project tops out in Springwoods Village in North Houston [RealtyNewsReport]
- Howard Hughes Corp., residents reach deal to limit Mitchell Island development [Chron] $
- Realty.com buys 1M-sf of office space from Oxley Leasing [ReCon]
- 72% of Houston hotel loans are in danger during covid pandemic [Chron] $
- LMC announces releasing at 363-unit Taylor Heights midrise apartment community [MultifamilyBiz]
- DATA: See the most recent trends in home sales and median prices in The Woodlands area [CI]
- Photos: 99-year-old mansion in Houston’s Museum District listed for $12.2M [HBJ] $
Mini Mural Monday
Madison Marquette Reports Highest Office Vacancy Since 1990
- HAR: Houston’s skyrocketing home sales in September, led by luxury sector, drain inventory [HBJ] $
- Marquette Cos. suffers setback in effort to build 5-story multifamily project near White Oak Music Hall [HBJ] $
- Space City: Houston awash in vacant offices; 93 buildings have huge blocks available [RealtyNewsReport]
- Veteran real estate broker Josh Jacobs launches Houston real estate firm Blue Ox Group [Chron] $
- This week’s deal sheet [BisNow]
- RNR real estate briefs [RealtyNewsReport]
- BoxPrefab aims to bridge the housing gap with modular construction [BuilderOnline]
Tiny Homes Success Stories
- Photos: First retailers open as M-K-T mixed-use completes core construction [HBJ] $
- Houston continues to fall back down ULI’s annual list of real estate markets to watch [HBJ] $
- 1/4 of Houston’s office space is seeking new tenants [BisNow]
- Home sales up 29% in Houston – strongest September ever [RealtyNewsReport]
- Investors in Texas tiny homes are reaping big rewards during covid [Chron] $
- Texas is a top destination for international homebuyers, survey says [Chron] $
- GHBA names 2020 Houston’s Best Prism Award winners [Chron] $
- The East End used to be Texas’ capital. Now, it’s being restored to its former appearance [Chron] $
- DATA: Office and industrial vacancies continued to rise in The Woodlands area in September [CI]
Jubilee – New Master-Planned Community
- Lionstone Investments launches extensive remodel of Sugar Land Town Square [HBJ] $
- Johnson Development Corp. signals intent to build 1,600-acre community NW of Houston [HBJ] $
- Home sales up 29% in Houston – strongest September ever [RealtyNewsReport]
- Medical Center growth attracts multifamily developers [RealtyNewsReport]
- Freddie Mac buys its first multifamily SOFR loan [BisNow]
- Where are Texas’ fastest-growing cities? Check the suburbs [Kinder]
- Construction slated to begin this winter for drainage improvement project near FM 2920, Hwy. 249 in Tomball [CI]
- Island development highlights limits of The Woodlands Township’s governing powers [CI]
Houston Office Market Lease Rates Steady, Apartment Prices Up
- Construction deaths on the decline. But fatal falls remain a threat [HBJ] $
- Second phase of Exploration Green flood-control project in Clear Lake complete [HBJ] $
- Houston’s second tallest skyscraper 1000 Louisiana signs tenants [RealtyNewsReport]
- Q3 2020 | Houston office market report [ColliersInternational]
- Houston rent prices buck the Texas trend and continue to climb, Abodo report says [CultureMap]
- Peek inside Houston’s newest world-class luxury midrise, Giorgetti, in Upper Kirby [CultureMap]
- Mapping low-income displacement and poverty concentration in Houston [Kinder]
- League City City Council approves construction of first drainage bond project [CI]
- On the hunt for office space, companies stay low to the ground [HBJ] $
Hines Announces Sole Multifamily Property Management Firm
- Goya Foods adds multimillion-dollar expansion to Houston-area distribution center [HBJ] $
- Photos: 17,000-SF entrepreneurial coworking facility Downtown Launchpad opens [HBJ] $
- East End Maker Hub signs Alchemy Industrial, Waste Management, Rugged Robotics as tenants [HBJ] $
- Hines launches multifamily property management firm named Willowick Residential [HBJ] $
- Hines real estate firm moves into multifamily management [Chron] $
- Weatherford Farms Nursery sold for industrial development [RealtyNewsReport]
- Seniors housing and the pandemic: Outlook for the future [RealtyNewsReport]
- Central Business District [ColliersInternational]
- Foreign investors add $6.6B to Texas economy [ReCon]
- Weather is becoming an albatross that could reshape CRE investment in Texas, across US [BisNow]
- Bellaire Planning and Zoning Commission turns down Evelyn’s Park parking lot request [CI]
- Downtown Houston’s recovery will be slow until majority of office workers, events return [BisNow]