About RECenter
Can a homeowner trim a neighbor's tree when the limbs cross the property line? How do you get a Texas real estate license? What's the median price of an
existing Midland home? Why are water rights being bought and sold? My
landlord won't install a smoke detector. What can I do?
Everyone has real estate questions. The Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University has the answers.
The Center is the nation's largest publicly funded
organization devoted to real estate research. Most of our $2 million in annual
funding comes from real estate license fees paid by more than 140,000
professionals. A nine-member advisory committee
appointed by the governor provides research guidance and approves the budget.
The Center's staff conducts research on financial,
socioeconomic, public policy, trade, legal, land use and local market analysis
issues related to real estate.
The results of Center research are communicated in a variety
of formats, including this website, print publications (many of which are
available as free downloads) and videos. The Center's flagship periodical — Tierra
Grande, a quarterly magazine — has a circulation of 142,000. Twice a week,
an electronic real estate newsletter, Real Estate Center Online News (RECON) is
sent to over 30,000 subscribers. Our most requested publications (listed below)
reflect the wide variety of issues our constituents want to know about.
Real Estate Center staff members also travel around Texas disseminating
research findings through speaking engagements to industry and citizen groups
and conferences such as the Annual Outlook for Texas Land Markets and the
Annual Ad Valorem Taxation Legal Seminar.
The Center is part of the Mays Business School.
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