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Houston’s iconic NRG Astrodome “can and should live on” as a multi-use park that will enhance the quality of life for residents of the city, serve as a popular tourist destination, and catalyze economic development that enhances the greater NRG Park and benefits the region as a whole, according to a report released today from the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

The City Council approved a resolution naming the new Public Safety Complex in memory of Bob Bolen, the longest-serving mayor of Fort Worth.

Spring will bring warmer temperatures to Texas, but it also brings the threat of severe weather with little time to prepare. The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) urges consumers to plan for severe weather and take steps to reduce the risk of property damage, before storms strike.

Solana Business Park and architecture firm 5G Studio Collaborative today released final architectural design renderings of the property’s $50 million campus renovation. 5G Studio revealed designs that build on the inimitability of the original architectural design, while augmenting the “ranch cool” sophistication granted by the rural Texas setting. Renovations will update campus offerings, and provide corporate tenants with facilities and amenities they need in a contemporary work environment

According to information presented in court, from July 2006 to March 2008, in the Eastern District of Texas and elsewhere, Santens conspired with Irons, Limbrick, Preston, Patterson, and Allen to engage in monetary transactions in criminally-derived property of a value greater than $10,000, which property was derived from wire fraud, that is a scheme to induce lending institutions to fund mortgage loans for residential properties for which the property values had been fraudulently inflated for buyers who had been fraudulently qualified for loans.

Now is a good time to review your property’s flood risk, your current insurance coverage, and consider whether a separate flood policy should be part of your home protection plan.

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The settlement, which amends a prior agreement, will enhance benefits to Farmers policyholders who fall within the settlement class.

Texas Department of Insurance Commissioner David Mattax announced today the resolution of a more than decade long dispute with the state’s largest homeowners insurer, State Farm Lloyds.

Texas’ long-standing status as a state with affordable housing continued in 2014, according to the Real Estate Center’s latest Texas Housing Affordability Index (THAI) (http://www.recenter.tamu.edu/data/hs/afford.asp). In fourth quarter 2014, the state had an index value of 1.7

Hunt Mortgage Group, a commercial real estate lender, announced today that it has provided a $43.65 million Fannie Mae fixed rate loan to facilitate the acquisition of a multifamily property located in Grapevine, Texas.

San Antonio attorney C. Clark Welder was elected chair of the Real Estate Center's advisory committee last Friday in Austin. Port Lavaca Realtor Russell Cain will succeed Welder as vice chair

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), Chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, today questioned Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro regarding the financial health of the Federal Housing Administration.

Homeowners, renters and business owners in Aransas and San Patricio counties in Texas are encouraged to look over newly-released preliminary flood maps in order to determine their flood risks and make informed decisions.

MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced two recent decisions in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Both decisions affirmed MERS’ role as mortgagee, as well as the validity of its assignments.

Mayor Annise Parker and Harry J. Hayes, Director of the Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD), are pleased to announce the addition of 62,000 to the City’s popular automated curbside recycling program. As part of the expansion, residents in neighborhoods throughout Houston will receive a new 96-gallon green automated cart similar to the black automated garbage cart they already have. The green carts will take paper, plastics, metals and glass out of the waste stream.

Today, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to pass an amended version of H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act authored by Congressman Gene Green (D-TX) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). The bill will create a structural process for the approval of cross-border oil pipelines and electric transmission facilities while protecting the environment, creating jobs and providing businesses certainty

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today called into question the federal Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) potential seizure of land that rightfully belongs to Texas landowners. In a strongly worded letter to BLM Director Neil Kornze, Attorney General Abbott said

Mayor Annise Parker announced today that the number of chronically homeless individuals living on the streets of downtown Houston has decreased by 30 percent in just one year and 50 percent over the past two years. More than 1,400 at-risk individuals have been placed into safe, stable, supportive housing only two years after the announcement of her goal to end chronic homelessness in Houston

MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, yesterday granted MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. motion for summary judgment of the final remaining claim in a recording fee case filed by Dallas, Harris and Brazoria Counties, Texas