This week’s Chronicle Transactions
Brewmasters International Beer Festival
September 3-6, 2010
A Labor Day weekend Beer extravaganza with hundreds of beers, musical entertainment, food, and educational seminars on how to brew your own. Let your taste buds get carried away with specialty beers from around the world. Utilizing the beautiful bayside oasis of the Moody Garden grounds & conference...
We are starting a new “Weekly Wrap Up” segment each week that will review the stories we’ve published and offer up a few ideas of things going on around our great city.
So, in case you missed it:
Hwy 290 and Grand Parkway updates
Deal In Works Over Heights-Area Wal-Mart Development
MUDs and the Houston Annexation System
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In recent years, limited purpose annexations have become more popular in Houston and are now the integral part of the city’s annexation plan. This article in Impact News explains many of the details associated with the annexation system.
A recent email distributed by Jim Scuttles of First American Title is a nice follow up to our last post. It further illustrates Houston as a city of great opportunity. Always feel free to comment and let us know your thoughts on our posts.
Texas Economy
The Texas economy often behaves independent of the rest of the...
The future growth of the Greater West Houston trade area validates “Why rural land is a good investment”. The predictions from the West Houston Association of over 2,000,000 people in the 100 square miles outlined on the chart below in 2050 support the wisdom of investing in land in the west, south and north west....
One of Houston’s most comprehensive real estate blogs, Swamplot, recently highlighted Google Earth’s newest feature where you can view historical aerial images. It currently dates back to 1978 allowing you to explore the city’s growth over the past 30 years. Read and see more at Swamplot.
Photo of Astrodome area in 1978 from Google Earth via Swamplot
In Houston we are lucky to be close the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. The Center is the nation’s largest publicly funded organization devoted to real estate research and conducts in depth research on financial, socioeconomic, public policy, trade, legal, land use and local market analysis issues related to real estate.
The November 24...
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