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Urban Land Institute: Top Four Emerging Real Estate Markets, Getting Dallas in on the Smile

Posted on November 10th, 2009 12:51pm by Candy Evans
Filed under Changing market trends in Real Estate, Real Estate

D.C., New York, San Francisco and Boston — the “gateway” cities: those with universities, jobs, immigrants, great lifestyle. But here’s what made me excited: Houston was number five. As one ULI member told me: think of the U.S. map and draw a “smile” from NYC to Boston to San Francisco — that’s your area of highest growth and real estate health. I’m hoping Dallas can play off of Houston’s health, because not only are we just a few hundred miles from that smile, our quality of life is a lot better.

4 Comments to “Urban Land Institute: Top Four Emerging Real Estate Markets, Getting Dallas in on the Smile”

Wyman @ November 10th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

Yes, the quality of life is better than my friendly hometown Houston if you are a rabid conservative.
Cheryl @ November 11th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

Depends on what you mean by quality of life.Houston has always seemed more friendly and less judgemental. You can be liberal (translation: care about people other than just yourself) and fit in anyway. Less self-satisfied attitude down there. I don’t think Dallas will benefit much, several companies in Dallas now are thinking re-location to Houston. Sorry.
Enrique De La Fuente @ November 11th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

What companies?
Enrique De La Fuente @ November 11th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Either way, Houston will probably have to relocate to Dallas as sea levels rise: http://www.exitmundi.nl/images/sealevelamericaMap.jpg.