Charles Grand

Texas Housing Inventory, Listings Jump as Rates Tick Down

By Charles Grand / October 30, 2025 /

Could the worm finally be turning for homebuyers in the Lone Star State? The latest Texas Quarterly Housing Report suggests that might just be the case, with little hints of a rebalancing of power in the housing market. Texas Realtors dropped its Q3 report on Tuesday, and while home prices didn’t see any significant movement…

David Schwarte’s Texas-Sized Fight To Preserve Single-Family Neighborhoods

By Charles Grand / October 28, 2025 /

The notion of small government and local control has animated Texas politics for generations, but those days increasingly seem long gone. And when it comes to single-family neighborhoods, each new legislative session brings a slew of bad bills, at least according to the Texas Neighborhood Coalition. A veteran corporate attorney in the airline and tech…

AI Startup Mercator.ai Builds Momentum With Texas Contractors

By Charles Grand / October 27, 2025 /

As artificial intelligence starts to reshape industries from finance to healthcare, it’s also beginning to reconfigure how Texas contractors find their next big project. Case in point: Mercator.ai. It’s been one year since Mercator.ai expanded into the Lone Star State, and the firm’s business development platform for general contractors is gaining significant traction. Boasting seven…

City Hall Roundup: Downtown Crossroads and Lifelines

By Charles Grand / October 26, 2025 /

Not for nothing that downtown has been dominating the news cycle. Some years of high-profile business relocations and bad headlines about crime and homelessness appear to have set the stage for what sometimes feels like impending doom. Not one but two of the Big D’s major sport franchises are mulling alternative locations for new arenas,…

Fort Worth’s Cutting Edge Haunted House Lives Up to Its Name

By Charles Grand / October 24, 2025 /

Looking to get a scare in before Halloween season draws to a close? Depending on how much time you’ve got on your hands, you might want to work Cutting Edge Haunted House into what’s left of your October calendar. Cutting Edge has been in business since the early 1990s, and it’s been regularly recognized as…