I have just added a link on the front page of my website for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University for consumers to keep current with the latest trends in real estate across the State of Texas.
Listed below is a description from the Center about their publications and bulletins.
It is a great resource and I hope you will find it useful.
Janis Penick
REALTOR, CRS, CLHMS, e-Pro, GRI
RE/MAX Bastrop Area
Janis@janispenick.com
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Everyone has real estate questions. The Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University has the answers.
The Center is the nation's largest publicly funded organization devoted to real estate research. Most of our $2 million in annual funding comes from real estate license fees paid by more than 140,000 professionals. A nine-member advisory committee appointed by the governor provides research guidance and approves the budget.
The Center's staff conducts research on financial, socioeconomic, public policy, trade, legal, land use and local market analysis issues related to real estate.
The results of Center research are communicated in a variety of formats, including this website, print publications (many of which are available as free downloads) and videos. The Center's flagship periodical — Tierra Grande, a quarterly magazine — has a circulation of 142,000. Twice a week, an electronic real estate newsletter, Real Estate Center Online News (RECON) is sent to over 30,000 subscribers. Our most requested publications (listed below) reflect the wide variety of issues our constituents want to know about.
Real Estate Center staff members also travel around Texas disseminating research findings through speaking engagements to industry and citizen groups and conferences such as the Annual Outlook for Texas Land Markets and the Annual Ad Valorem Taxation Legal Seminar.
Source: Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University
