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If you are thinking about moving to the Village Creek Community in Spring, Texas we hope you enjoy the video below. Please call our office at 281.288.3500 to see a home in this community. 281.288.3500 Our Realtors look forward to working with you!

If you fear your teens will be driving and texting, there’s an app for that! DRIVEMODE by AT&T can prevent texting while driving because as soon as the car reaches 25 MPH teh app sends an auto-reply-message letting people who text them know the teen is behind the wheel and they will get a text back when it’s safe! To download this cool feature go to att.com/drivemode. Make sure you get your teens to watch the video “The Last Text.” It’s a documentary on the website. I love it!

What is Generation Park? An Industrial Park? An Office Park? A Medical Center? A Master Planned Community?

I had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan McCord of McCord Development. He is the President of Generation Park and he explained that it will be a master planned business park.

Located off of Beltway 8, Generation Park will be the new energy epicenter. It’s not exactly like the current energy corridor, though. Generation Park will offer office space, retail space, medical facilities, hotels and much more. Companies will range from small start ups to large mega companies.

Generation Park is less than 30 miles to downtown, close to both the ship channel and Houston’s Intercontinental Airport. It will offer a nearby rail line.

Some of the communities close to Generation Park are Fall Creek, the Shores of Lake Houston, Kingwood, and Summerwood. It is likely that most of the employees families will attend school in Humble ISD.

Houston has been known throughout the world as the Energy Capital, but it’s not all about the large oil and gas companies. Those companies have huge financial needs and legal needs that will be strategically located inside Generation Park. Other companies will meet the needs of the employees. You’ll likely see everything from dry cleaners to coffee shops and daycare centers at Generation Park. Recreation like golf courses and boating are located close by.

Currently building infrastructure, Generation Park is a new concept that will offer wooded areas and bike trails and be a place where employees want to come to work.

Here is this week’s “Real Estate Rundown” on Michael Garfield’s “World According to Garf” on KPRC AM950 and iHeartRadio. These segments are each Friday at 12:50. We talk real estate and preview this Sunday’s Houston Real Estate Radio.

The new energy epicenter is in northwest Houston. There are many companies moving their headquarters to this area of town. ExxonMobil is the largest. The new Exxon campus is being built between Spring and The Woodlands. Exxon has advised their employees in Fairfax, Virginia to put their current homes up for sale this June 2013. They are planning to open the first section of the new campus in early-mid 2014 which is when the majority of the Exxon buyers will be purchasing homes in the Spring and Woodlands areas. If you are interested in selling your current Spring or Woodlands home please call me today to get started with the home selling process. If you are a buyer, we can help you find that dream home in this area. Call 281.288.3500 for more information. We have Realtors that can assist you with all of your real estate needs.

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We have a great show for you today. The show broadcasts at 1PM on KPRC AM950 in Houston and is available via the iHeartRadio mobile app. Enjoy the show!

Houston Real Estate Radio is now available on iTunes!

Here is a breakdown of the show:

• Rick Veale, mortgage banker with the Home Loan Specialists Team at Ameripro Funding, joins us in the studio for two segments to talk about reverse mortgages. Reverse mortgages are a way for seniors to utilize some of the value stored in their home to live on while they still remain in their home. Her has some tips for when this tool should be applied and what to look out for when thinking about a reverse mortgage. You can learn more about Rick and his team at http://hlstx.com.
• Kathy Johanns joins us for two segments as well. Kathy is the Executive Director of The Village of Gleannloch Farms, to talk about all of the senior living options available at their retirement community. You can learn more about Kathy and her incredible retirement community at http://www.gleannlochseniorliving.com.

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Don’t forget to ask your real estate question this week to have it answered on the air. Call the 24hr Answer Line at 281.882.8088 or use hashtag #HRER on Twitter! Talk to you next week!

Houston is a good career move. We have the largest city in Texas and many large businesses have headquarters here. We have a huge medical center and many other industries besides the oil and gas. According to PayScale.com, a website that analyzes salary data, Houston ranks first among Best Cities for Your Career in 2013. Houston tied the second-place city, Dallas, in unemployment rate at 6.9 percent but posted a higher wage growth margin at 3.9 percent. The technology and biomedical industries are growing. Obviously oil and gas industries are growing. Move to Houston if you need a job!!

If you are preparing to fight your property taxes this year, give us a call at Register Real Estate Advisors. Our agents can email you the sold properties in your neighborhood. 281.288.3500

Here is this week’s “Real Estate Rundown” on Michael Garfield’s “World According to Garf” on KPRC AM950 and iHeartRadio. These segments are each Friday at 12:50. We talk real estate and preview this Sunday’s Houston Real Estate Radio.

Sometimes my sellers call me and want to know why online real estate websites don’t have the most accurate information on their home. When we, as Realtors, make changes to our listings in the MLS it can take a few hours or a day for it to update on the consumer side at HAR.com. Then that data from the MLS feeds the best real estate sites. At RREA, our site updates with the MLS and so does Realtor.com. However, there are other real estate sites that don’t update immediately through the MLS because they don’t get the MLS datafeed. Some have to be indexed by google and it takes a week or two for the data to be updated. Others are sites with scraped content from other sites. This gives consumers unrealistic and false information about properties for sale and property values. It’s basically outdated information. There is no Realtor that can control that content. For the best and most up to date accurate Houston real estate information, keep searching for listings at RREA.com or HAR.com.