- Downtown’s Historic Esperson Office Complex Hits the Market [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
- Harris County Commissioners Court Votes To Seek ‘Construction Manager at Risk’ for Proposed Astrodome Renovation [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
- Houston Home Inventory Up 9% So Far This Year, Finds Zillow [Culturemap]
- Who To Listen To in Contradictory Houston Housing Price Reports [Houston Public Media]
- Blood Bros. BBQ To Open Brick-and-Mortar Barbecue Joint in Bellaire Triangle Shopping Center [Houston Chronicle]
- Houston Poised for Record Year of Truck Collisions with Bridges as Local Economy Picks Up [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
- How African Americans Lost Land in the South Due to an Obscure Legal Loophole [The Nation]
- City Looking for Artists to Paint More Mini Murals on Traffic Control Signal Boxes [FOX 26 Houston;Â previously on Swamplot]
Photo of Row on 25th: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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Add this to the list of misinformation Zillow puts out there. Their “zestimates” are a joke.
Re CultureMap Zillow article: I’m confused by the math and/or the spin. Headline says: “Red-hot Houston bucks this nationwide real estate trend”, but article says Houston’s housing inventory is up 9% from last year and time on the market is 23 days longer than the national average. Don’t big inventory and slow sales indicate blue-cold instead of red-hot?
“Contradictory data” Hmmm, shall we all believe a stooge for an organization that has consistently misrepresented home sales data for decades because the size of their paycheck depends on it?
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What I see is a moderate price pullback from overzealous sellers who lost sense of reality and overlisted their properties.