Real Estate Center

Rising Interest Rates Aren't Slowing Pre-Owned Home Sales, But Builders Need to Ramp up Construction

By Joanna England / October 9, 2013 /

You’d think that rising interest rates would slow the real estate market, but that’s not the case for the Dallas Area. According to Jim Gaines, an economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, Dallas-area pre-owned home sales are up 20 percent year-over-year. In a conversation with Steve Brown, Gaines had this to…

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Texas Continues to Add Jobs Faster Than The National Average, With Midland/Odessa Topping List

By Joanna England / August 21, 2013 /

While the Midland/Odessa area is leading the rest of our great state in job growth, Texas is adding jobs at a quicker clip than most other states, and beats the national average easily. That’s according to the July figures from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University’s “Monthly Review of the Texas Economy.” Coming…

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Aggie Real Estate Network Hosts Annual Conference July 25-28 in Southlake

By Joanna England / July 15, 2013 /

It’s going to be a veritable sea of maroon and white in Southlake later this month as the Aggie Real Estate Network invades Hilton on Southlake Town Square for the group’s annual conference. The four-day event features loads of speakers covering economics, finance, investment, construction, and tons more. The conference is put together by the…

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Early Registration Deadline For Real Estate Center's Ad Valorem Seminar is Aug. 7

By Joanna England / July 11, 2013 /

Clients expect agents to know everything about the process of buying and selling a home, but with the constant regulatory changes and market adjustments … well, it’s best to stay abreast of everything, right? That’s where the fantastic seminars put on by the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University come in. The center will…

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Leasing and New Home Starts Surge in Second Quarter, But Will Optimism Flag Before New Homes and Units Reach The Market?

By Joanna England / July 8, 2013 /

I am very cautiously optimistic about our market, y’all. I want to be just ridiculously, pie-in-the-sky buoyant about North Texas resilience that has us leading multi-family construction as well as seeing gains in new home starts.

According to Dallas Morning News reporter Steve Brown, North Texas is building multi-family developments faster than any other state in the nation, raising rents an average of 3 percent, as well as hitting an annual leasing record in June.

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