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BY BRANDI SMITH
Before Michael Berlanga decided to become a public adjuster, he had a career as a certified public accountant and commercial real estate broker. In those roles, he managed leasing in a building in San Antonio, which caught fire a couple of years ago.
By Micah Leigh
The economy across Texas is largely based on oil and gas. As the oil and gas market goes, so goes real estate development. But what happens when these two industries collide? If one entity owns the mineral rights, but another owns the surface rights, who wins a dispute if the oil industry decides to drill on a certain property? For answers, REDNews turned to Rusty Adams, Research Attorney at Texas A & M Real Estate Center.
BY OMAR IZFAR
ATTORNEY
Although Texas, and in particular, Houston, celebrates a reputation as an entrepreneur’s dreamland, we have a consistently increasing body of land use and development regulation. Densification brings growing pains in the form of land use conflicts and, in many cases results in more regulation, both public and private. Development in metro Houston is regulated by more sophisticated land use controls than many realize. The persistent rumor that the City of Houston’s lack of formal zoning codes results in a lax regulatory environment inside the City and around the metro Houston area creates false expectations for developers. Developers neglecting to do their homework experience problems in the form of delay, cost and unexpected limitations on their projects.
BY ANNA DEMMLER
Texas Central Partners (Texas Central), a private company in Texas, hopes to start construction for a high-speed rail connecting Dallas to Houston in 2018, and hopes to have the rail running by 2023. REDNews talked to Drayton McLane Jr., a Houston business leader, and both an investor and Board Member for Texas Central.
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BY BRANDI SMITH
Mitch Zarsky says he could hardly believe it when he heard his own words parroted back to him during a recent Harris County Appraisal District hearing.
BY BRANDI SMITH
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As this issue of REDNews went toprint, a discussion was beginningin Washington, D.C., that may have an impact on thousands of acres of privately held Texas property. The Surface Transportation Board, which oversees freight and passenger railways , is considering whether it has jurisdiction over Texas Central, a first-of-its-kind, highspeed rail line proposed from Dallas
to Houston.