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#collin-county

Japanese real estate companies tend to bring patient, long-term capital, which is exactly what development and homebuilding require. They're not looking for a quick exit, which makes them natural partners for Bridge Tower.

The northeast corner became a symbol of Texas growth: prices soared, commutes stretched and master-planned communities stacked up so tight you could borrow sugar through the fence.

Speaking to a crowd of 400 higher ed leaders at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's leadership conference in 2023, Abbott praised attendees for putting the state "on a trajectory of excellence in higher education." A high-quality higher education has many components, he said, but one of the most important elements "is having top-notch research universities to educate the next generation of innovative leaders needed by employers in the state."

Companies are moving away from fully remote work policies, according to new data, with hybrid setups gaining traction and return-to-office (RTO) requirements emerging as the most common model ― and Dallas is no exception. Nationally, 87% of jobs are now entirely in-office, according to a JobLeads report, which evaluated more than 5 million United States job postings. Despite steady demand, hybrid and fully remote roles suffered a dramatic decline, accounting for only 7% and 6%, respectively.

Household growth is one of the most direct indicators of housing demand. When you add 357,000 households in 10 years, that's about 357,000 additional housing units that needed to be absorbed by the market, whether it's rental or ownership. That's real demand because these households need a shelter.

Loving County, in northwest Texas, may have the highest trouble-to-resident ratio in the United States. With sixty-four inhabitants, as of the 2020 census, the county is the least populated in the country. Control of its top elected positions-sheriff, judge, constable, county clerk-can be swung by a handful of votes. Many of those vying for power are related to, and estranged from, their opponents. Election results are regularly challenged by the losing candidate, sometimes repeatedly;

The COVID fog shows up when decision-makers treat the 2.65% mortgage trough from January 2021 as a normal frame of reference rather than what it was, an extreme, unsustainable outlier created by a crisis policy response. Mortgage rates rose more than five percentage points from that trough, reaching 7.79% in October 2023 and easing to about 6.2% by September 2024.

In May, home prices rose slightly from the month before, with a median listing price of $345,000. The number of listings on the market grew 5.6%, which is a bigger increase than normal for this time of the year in Houston, and homes are also selling slower than at the same time last year. Home prices in Houston Typically, home price per square foot in Houston tend to rise in May.

Federal agencies said Colony Ridge used misleading sales tactics, including misrepresentations about flooding risks, and failed to verify borrowers' ability to repay, which contributed to high foreclosure rates. The settlement reached with the DOJ, CFPB and Texas OAG marks the DOJ's first predatory mortgage lending case and the CFPB's first federal court lawsuit involving the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act (ILSA).