Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design

Swamplot is off tomorrow. Here, at year’s end, are some of our best posts from December:

• An exciting new lifestyle, in beautiful Southwest Houston! The TV work of legendary developer Michael Pollack resurfaces on YouTube
• Fancy designs for a poisoned site in the Fifth Ward
• How to sell a lemon: The Tremont Tower story goes straight to web video
• The Manhattan’s lonely discounted penthouse
• Don’t post new-home listings on a Thursday
• A super strip center for the Heights
• Crown Oaks homebuyers want the lakes they were promised
• Which 3-acre Galleria-area apartment complex is gonna be torn down for a new 3-acre Galleria-area apartment complex?
• The growing Houston real-estate empire of Zaya Younan
• Genuine Houston-landscape-inspired doodads for your home
• Rhea Wheeler’s three new restaurant redos
• Goodbyes: Sites of nighttime moshing, oldtime barbecue, lunchtime liposuction-by-injection
• Sold for land value in River Oaks

Missed out on some of last month’s real-estate fun? Here’s a review of some of Swamplot’s best September posts:

• Difficult home sales of the rich and/or famous: Mattress Mack, Richard Smalley, Dusty Hill
• IRA mortgage investors root for a downturn
• The Galleria’s new ultra-modern mixed-use project will include a giant-size Whole Foods
• The smoggiest part of Houston is . . . where?
• Developers think new “New Orleans style” apartments will be flooded . . . with new tenants
• Live on YouTube: TSU students go bat-crazy!
• Astrodome redevelopment plans get even weirder
• Million-dollar temporary housing in the Museum District
• And of course, the surprise erection: Boulevard Oaks’s new 23-story highrise