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How to become an expert in Texas real estate

If you're involved in real estate in the great state of Texas - buyer, seller, investor or practitioner - especially if you're involved statewide, you may often find yourself looking for good economic information about the metro areas of the state to provide a foundation for making decisions that affect your livelihood as well as that of others.

Now, you can go hire an expensive specialist to do in depth research for you and customize that research down to a "t," and your enterprise may require that; but, if you want a good start, look into the reports provided for free by the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.

The Center features 25 Market Reports for Texas' Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) listed below.

Each of these reports will give you more information than you probably want to know.  But if you do want to know, here they are, compliments of the Real Estate Center and Texas real estate agents who pay for such things. 

And, if you read them all, you could probably claim to be an expert on Texas, and be right!

To go directly to a report, click on the links below:

 

Abilene Amarillo Austin-Round Rock Beaumont-Port Arthur Brownsville-Harlingen College Station-Bryan Corpus Christi Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington El Paso Houston-Sugarland-Baytown Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood Laredo

Longview Lubbock McAllen-Edinburg-Mission Midland Odessa San Angelo San Antonio Sherman-Denison Texarkana Tyler Victoria Waco Wichita Falls

Illustration borrowed from the Market Reports section of the Real Estate Center's website

 

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Trans-Texas Corridor: a chat with Dan Hatfield

The Trans Texas Corridor is causing a growing stir among Texans these days, especially among landowners in the path of, or neighboring the path of, the proposed TTC.

The Corridor is a part of a much larger transportation plan for the Americas; but for right now, tempers are simmering on both sides of the issue in Texas.

Dan Hatfield is a rural land broker, and Realtor and is active in and the following of what’s happening in Texas politics, especially when it involves rural land.

He and I chatted about the Trans Texas Corridor recently…

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17:47 minutes
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Helpful links:

Keep Texas Moving; Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)

Corridor Watch

Public Roads: Federal Highway Administration (old, but informative)

Trans-Texas Corridor: Wikipedia's take on it

Office of the Governor: Trans Texas Corridor

 

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Jack Hunt

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Jack Hunt has been president and CEO of the King Ranch since 1995 and has steadily worked to diversify the assets of the famous ranch. 

He also has strong views on wind energy especially as it impacts the environment along the Texas coast.

So I posed the same question to Mr. Hunt that I posed to the other panelists for this series

“Does the presence of wind turbines on any given farm or ranch property enhance or detract from that property’s market value?”

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19:00 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Kathleen McKenzie Owen

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Kathleen McKenzie Owen has been counseling rural land buyers and sellers since the mid-1980s and has enjoyed quite a bit of success in the process.  She’s one of those who returns what she has been provided by her business efforts back to her business.

She says she's retired, but she still instructs for the Realtors Land Institute. And most recently, she has taken on the job of Chairperson of the Resorts and Second Homes Committee for the National Association of Realtors.

Ms. Owen holds the ALC designation from the Realtor’s Land Institute and with her many years of experience in rural land brokerage in Texas, she offers some interesting insights into wind energy development in the state.

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10:30 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Karl Armstead

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Karl Armstead grew up in Arizona but after a stint in Agricultural Operations at the First National Bank of Midland, he began brokering and appraising rural property in west Texas in 1989. 

From the Fort Stockton area, he’s in the thick of wind energy development in west Texas. He holds the ARA designation awarded by American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

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13:00 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Judon Fambrough

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Judon Fambrough is a senior lecturer and attorney-at-law with the Texas Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.

For nearly 30 years he has informed landowners about their property rights and how to protect and utilize those rights. So, I thought he’d be a good person to ask:

“Does the presence of wind turbines on any given farm or ranch property enhance or detract from that property’s market value?”

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16:00 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Steven Thompson

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Steven E. Thompson is an attorney-at-law and founder of Steven E. Thompson & Associates, P.C.  He's been an active advocate for landowners opposing wind energy development in certain areas of Texas.

Mr. Thompson is one of the few attorneys in Texas, if not the nation, who have been involved in litigation in regard to wind energy and wind energy rights. His insights are interesting and thoughtful.

Listen to Mr. Thompson’s comments…

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14:30 minutes

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Download a transcript of Steven Thompson's interview HERE

 

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with George Clift

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

 

George Clift is a principal in Clift, Scott & Associates in Amarillo. He and his associates sell, appraise and auction property in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. 

Mr. Clift is an Accredited Land Consultant through the Realtors Land Institute and is the immediate past president of the Texas Realtors Land Institute. His take on what’s happening in the Panhandle area with wind energy is informative.

 

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10:45 minutes

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Download a transcript of George Clift's interview HERE

 

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Tom Lee

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Tom Lee is a principal in Lee, Lee & Puckitt Associates in San Angelo.  He and his firm specialize in farm and ranch sales and appraisal. 

Mr. Lee travels extensively throughout central west Texas and has ample opportunity to chat with landowners about any number of rural land issues. As a result, he has a good finger on the pulse of how wind energy is and will affect the land.

He's also a ranch manager and landowner and is a frequent contributor to Texas Rural Land News & Review.

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16:00 minutes

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Click here to go to Tom Lee's Webster

Download a transcript of Tom Lee's interview HERE

 

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An Interview with Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Jerry Patterson is the Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, the oldest state agency in Texas. He is an avid proponent of alternative energy sources for Texas which, of course, includes wind energy.

A Texas A & M graduate, Commissioner Patterson served in the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam and afterwards in the Marine Corps Reserve.

He also served as a state senator for District 11 before being elected Land Commissioner.

His and his agency’s job is to manage over 20.4 million acres of state land and Commissioner Patterson is not shy about advocating the development of wind energy on some of that land.

I thought it important to hear from Commissioner Patterson about wind energy’s impact on land value.

 

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15:00 minutes

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Download a transcript of Jerry Patterson's interview HERE

 

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