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HOUSTON - (February 19, 2008) - Consumer worries about the nation's real estate crunch and the traditionally sluggish Christmas-New Year holiday period combined to slow property sales across greater Houston during the first month of 2008. On the heels of one of the best years on record, January s...

Despite the popular images of Texas ranches and farmland, Texas' population is primarily urban. Nearly 64% of all Texans reside in one of the four major metropolitan statistical areas ( MSAs ), and nearly 87% live in one of the 25 MSAs in the state. Approximately four out of every five Texans li...

The year 2007 shaped up to be one of the best on record for property sales in Houston, second only to 2006, according to statistics released by the Houston Association of Realtors® (HAR). That milestone was achieved despite a fourth consecutive decline in sales in December that reflects the effec...

Population and employment growth go hand in hand. Population grows because jobs are available, and jobs are created because of available low-cost labor produced by a growing population. If Texas maintains its average employment-to-population ratio as it is expected to during the next 25 years (ar...

Texas' future prosperity will derive from more people, more jobs and expanded personal income. Increases in employment will result in growth in personal, per capita, household and family incomes. Between 1980 and 2005, Texas' total personal income grew by 422.8 percent, from $142 billion to $741 ...