San Antonio

George Strait’s ‘Home in San Antone’ On the Market

By Bethany Erickson / April 16, 2019 /
Strait

“I still have my home in San Antone When I greet my neighbor with a ‘hi y’all’ I’m wealthy as a king upon a throne You can have your mansion or your cottage small I’ll just take my home in San Antone” Or, you know, not. Seems George Strait is putting his San Antonio Santa…

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Historic Monte Vista Home Close to Great San Antonio Amenities

By Bethany Erickson / December 23, 2018 /
Monte Vista

When we found this week’s historical shelter, an English Domestic Revival home in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, we immediately wanted to know more about one of the largest historic districts in the United States. And we became even more intrigued when we found out that the district, which encompasses 100 city blocks…

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Apartment Completions Are Booming, But So Are Rents

By Bethany Erickson / March 30, 2018 /
rents

There may be a lot of apartments being built in Texas, but that’s not necessarily translating to more affordable rents, one economist said at a recent conference on affordable housing held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Greg Willett, chief economist at RealPage, told the group assembled that the same affordable housing issues that…

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INFOGRAPHIC: North Texas Ranks in 7 Best Texas Cities for Employment Growth

By Leah Shafer / July 29, 2015 /

In Texas, it’s all about jobs, jobs, jobs. A new report from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University says that the Texas economy gained 276,400 nonagricultural jobs from June 2014 to June 2015, an annual growth rate of 2.4 percent, compared with 2.1 percent for the United States. Many of the major metropolitan areas in…

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Fort Worth Population Growth Leads Nation, Jobs Big Part of Reason

By Leah Shafer / December 17, 2014 /

Cowtown has new braggin’ rights: the U.S. Census Bureau says they were the fastest-growing big city in the nation between 2000-2013. Fort Worth population saw a 42.34 percent increase in that time. Dallas lagged far behind, coming in at 24th. The 2010 Census count for Fort Worth put the number of residents at 741,206. Compare this to a…

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