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Ralph BivinsReal EstateRalph Bivins is a veteran journalist with extensive experience in writing about real estate for newspapers, magazines and Web publications. He also serves as publisher and editor-in-chief of RealtyNewsReport.com, a Web site that caters to realty professionals. He is former president and chairman of the board of the National Association of Real Estate Editors, a non-profit journalists group. Bivins has won numerous awards, including the Texas Headliners Club award for best business writing in the state of Texas |
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Energy Power
Expect home prices to jump significantly — soon: Economist sees a boom market in Houston
By Ralph Bivins
05.08.12 | 5:18 pm
Houston's home market will be on an impressive upswing over the next couple of years as the city’s energy industry surges and the local economy adds new jobs ...
Real estate round-up
Construction cranes flock to Houston skyline as office market surges, but what will happen to Exxon Mobil skyscraper?
By Ralph Bivins
04.03.12 | 2:06 pm
Remember the see-through office buildings of the '80s? That’s when Houston office towers were so vacant you could see through them like a J-Lo blouse. Times have changed. Houston ...
Nine months and counting
The new real estate reality: Home sales jump again, prices lag
By Ralph Bivins
03.20.12 | 2:38 pm
Houston’s home sales soared 17 percent in February, the ninth consecutive month of positive gains for the local housing market, the Houston Association of Realtors reported. Pending sales — an ...
Houston First's Move
It's full speed ahead for new convention center hotel and it's going to be Texas big
By Ralph Bivins
03.08.12 | 3:03 pm
Plans to build a second convention hotel in downtown Houston are moving ahead as organizers have begun an official search to locate a hotel developer. The hotel, to be built ...
Recession Busters
In the mood to buy: Homes sales jump for eighth straight month and spring should be even better
By Ralph Bivins
02.21.12 | 2:54 pm
Houston's real estate market maintained the revival momentum in January, as the city registered the eighth consecutive month of increased home sales. Home sales were up 9.2 percent ...
Real Estate Round-Up
The Top 10 apartment building trends: What your new place is going to look like
By Ralph Bivins
02.20.12 | 2:18 pm
Trends come and go in apartment living. Apartments outfitted with harvest gold appliances of the 1970s are now harder to find than a Yeti’s fossil. Today, everybody wants an ...
America's Bright Spot
Houston's real estate rebound: Home sales finish up in 2011 with seven straight months of gains
By Ralph Bivins
01.17.12 | 10:55 am
Houston’s housing market rebounded impressively in 2011 as the city registered a four percent gain for the year, according to annual totals released Tuesday by the Houston Association of ...
Real Estate Round-Up
It's a happy holiday season for shopping centers: The gloom's gone and high-end sales are hot
By Ralph Bivins
12.06.11 | 12:36 pm
Santa has his workshop and delivers his presents down the chimney. Online retailers just send stuff by UPS or FedEx. But there’s still a lot of holiday retailing that ...
Park Place
Hess Tower sold for a record $445 million: Prized Discovery Green locale going to a Canadian group
By Ralph Bivins
11.30.11 | 11:05 am
Hess Tower, a new 29-story building in downtown Houston, is being sold to H&R REIT, a Canadian-based real estate investment group for a record $445 million, according to Real ...
Real Estate Round-Up
It's no fantasy: Real estate is recovering across the nation, but progress is slow
By Ralph Bivins
11.21.11 | 10:17 am
The mood seemed a little lighter this year at the annual convention of the National Association of Realtors in Anaheim, Calif.. Hey, Disneyland was just around the corner, literally within ...
Trending Upward
Out of the recession: Home sales jump for the fifth straight month signaling a healthy housing market
By Ralph Bivins
11.16.11 | 11:59 am
Houston’s existing home sales were up nine percent in October, as the Houston Association of Realtors Wednesday reported the fifth consecutive month of positive sales results. The strong October ...
Real Estate Round-Up
Home remodeling is out of style: In down economy, remodelers deal with the "year of the small job"
By Ralph Bivins
10.25.11 | 6:09 pm
Houstonians aren’t building as many new houses as they used to. So wouldn’t it make sense if they stayed put and fixed up their existing home? Wouldn’t ...
Real Estate Round-Up
In search of Inner Loop dirt: Nothing's sacred in Houston apartment development fever
By Ralph Bivins
09.29.11 | 2:58 pm
The Inner Loop is the Holy Grail of Houston apartment developers these days. But finding Inner Loop land that can be used for apartment development can be difficult. You don ...
Sold!
Houston home sales surge 30 percent in August
By Ralph Bivins
09.20.11 | 1:51 pm
Houston home sales were up more than 30 percent in August, one of the largest increases ever reported by the Houston Association of Realtors. A total of 5,543 single-family ...
Real Estate Round-Up
Houston home sales jump, prices hit a record high: Call it a comeback?
By Ralph Bivins
09.15.11 | 12:42 pm
Houston’s home market is making a comeback. It’s not a smooth take off. There have been bumps and stutters. The statistics are mixed. But some very positive sales ...
Real Estate Round-Up
Houston is a Mexican food capital that eats national chains alive: Limp giants cannot compete with beloved locals
By Ralph Bivins
08.29.11 | 12:48 pm
Philadelphia has its cheesesteaks. Chicago has its hot dogs. And Houston, of course, is the Mexican Food Capital of the World. "Houston is ground zero for stateside Mexican food," says ...
Real Estate Round-Up
The Prudential Building's death-row lesson: The Astrodome should stand for a 1,000 years
By Ralph Bivins
08.16.11 | 1:56 pm
Want to “Get a Piece of the Rock?” Hang around M. D. Anderson and you may be in luck. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is going ...
Real Estate Round-up
From Sin Alley to the Energy Corridor: Six Houston places you won't find on a map
By Ralph Bivins
08.02.11 | 9:00 am
If you are new to Houston, the toughest thing about finding your way around is locating stuff that’s not on the map. Houstonians have names for places that the ...
Real Estate Round-up
Houston's Top 10 shopping center additions: Stores that are transforming spaces
By Ralph Bivins
07.19.11 | 12:57 pm
Attention shoppers: Here are my top 10 additions to the Houston retail scene. We’ve made it halfway through the year and although there aren’t any more Gallerias being ...
Real Estate Round-up
Mammoth Texas Medical Center set to grow even more: Look south, young doctors
By Ralph Bivins
07.11.11 | 11:27 am
The ambitious new Menninger Clinic construction project — billed as the nation’s “epicenter for mental health” — is stretching the boundaries of the Texas Medical Center. The Texas Medical Center, already ...
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