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Texas Home & Garden Show comes to Houston Texas

Texas Home & Garden Show will be in Houston on Saturday September 17 and Sunday September 18, 2011. The show is being held at Reliant Center Houston Texas 77054. This year will be the 16 TH annual holding of this home show. The hours are Saturday from 10:00 AM until 8:00 Pm and on Sunday from 11: 00 AM until 6:00 PM. There is scheduled to be over 700 exhibitors covering all aspects of home and gardening. The extremely wide range of home and garden products includes Kitchens & Baths, Outdoor Living, Décor, Home Remodeling, Pools and Spas, Green Homes and living, Major Storm preparedness, landscaping and many more.

There are numerous scheduled lectures and speeches from experts in their field of knowledge. Attendees will be able to pick and choose what areas they want to attend as all aspects of home and gardening will be covered in a rather complete fashion.

Cost of the show is $9.50 per adult; senior ticket is $8.00 per ticket and Children 14 and under is FREE. Parking is stated at $10 per vehicle but the caveat is that this price could change.

One of the many benefits of living in Katy Texas area is that Houston is only about 25 miles away and Reliant Center is an easy drive on most weekends (excluding when road construction occurs). We are lucky to have home shows right here in Katy but this show is so huge and comprehensive it out does anything Katy could ever put together. If you are planning to buy a new home, remodel or change inside or outside this is the show to attend.

Additional information can be found on the show’s web site.

SEPTEMBER 11th: HOUSTON TEXAS REMEMBERS A weekend of activities and volunteer opportunities will commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11th in the City of Houston. Houstonians are encouraged to carry on the legacy of those affected by participating in a weekend of events and community service projects as well as random acts of kindness throughout the greater Houston area. Following is a list of activities and events: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 . Weekend Kick-off and Tribute Noon at City Hall Reflection Pool 901 Bagby Street Houston 77002 Join Mayor Annise Parker, the Houston Fire and Police Departments and the Houston Grand Opera for an inspirational service with music, readings, prayers and placing of flowers in the Reflection Pool. Learn more at www.houstontx.gov/specialevents/911tenthanniversary.html. . Houston Remembers presented by Dignity Memorial 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Discovery Green 1500 McKinney Street Houston 77010 Watch the Houston premiere of "REBIRTH," an award-winning documentary that follows the transformation of five people, over the course of seven years, whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001. Learn more at www.dignitymemorial.com/911; click on LOCATIONS at the top of the page. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 . First Ladies' Eco Bash on the Bayou 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Braes Bayou north and south bank trails Parking at Brady's Landing 8505 Cypress Street Houston 77012 Join First Lady of Houston Kathy Hubbard and former First Ladies Andrea White and Port Commissioner Elyse Lanier for a community beautification project and planting of approximately 3,000 trees to represent the number of victims who perished on September 11, 2001. Registration is limited. Learn more at www.houstontx.gov/parks. . Everyone Can Be a Lifesaver 3 p.m. until supplies last at Discovery Green 1500 McKinney Street Houston 77010 Join Houston SERVICE and the American Heart Association for a FREE hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training. Please note that this is not a certification course and there are limited supplies at this time. This initiative involves training citizens on a potentially lifesaving technique, hands-only CPR, which would impact the entire Houston population by having more residents ready to respond to instances of cardiac arrest. Learn more at www.houstonservice.org. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2011 9/11 Heroes Run 9:03 a.m. at Ellington Airport (Main Gate) with Pre-Event Ceremonies at 8:30 a.m. 11602 Aerospace Drive Houston 77034 Join the Travis Manion Foundation to honor the Heroes of September 11th - veterans, first responders and civilians. This is a 5K run and walk for charity with proceeds going to support the Foundation, and specifically in Houston, Assist the Officer. Learn more at www.911heroesrun.com. National Moment of Remembrance Noon Stop and Remember by ceasing all regular activity for one minute as bells and sirens sound. Take a moment to honor the victims of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Learn more at www.lautenberg.senate.gov/stopandremember. Houston Grand Opera presents Pieces of 9/11 - Memories from Houston 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at Rothko Chapel 1409 Sul Ross Street Houston 77006 The Houston Grand Opera will perform a selection from Pieces of 9/11 - Memories from Houston by composer Jake Heggie and writer Gene Scheer. Learn more at www.houstongrandopera.org. ht You can also find volunteer and service activities organized by community groups and nonnonprofits throughout the greater Houston area at www.houstontx.gov/volunteer or Co Compassionate Houston at www.compassionatehouston.org. Yo

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This is a particularly insightful as we are all going to be very happy for the economy to actually "turn the corner". If has been hard to imagine a time again when economic activity is not artificially stimulated and manipulated.

Linda J, Marshall

Linda Marshall Realtors, Inc.

innerloop Houston Specialist

713-523-4600

this Texas Real Estate Center news release is reblogged with permission

ECONOMY 'TURNING TOWARD RECOVERY,'

DOTZOUR SAYS

By Bryan Pope, Associate Editor, Real Estate Center

Release No. 01-0910

COLLEGE STATION (Real Estate Center) - The "real economy" - economic activity that is not stimulated by tax credits - appears to be "turning the corner toward recovery," Dr. Mark Dotzour said this week while speaking at the Texas Society of CPAs Financial Institutions conference in Dallas.

Dotzour, the Real Estate Center's chief economist, said corporate profits and new orders for manufacturing have clearly rebounded.

He also said commercial real estate markets will not clear until two issues involving the U.S. banking system are resolved. First, when will the banks recognize the losses on the real estate loans in their portfolios and begin to sell the troubled assets to new buyers? And, will the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency tone down its strict limits on commercial real estate lending for commercial banks?

"As of today, there doesn't appear to be an encouraging answer to either question," Dotzour said.

When asked about this week's headlines proclaiming that the recession ended in 2009, he said he thinks such headlines are premature.

"The health of the residential and commercial real estate industries depends not on gross domestic product (GDP), but on job growth," he said. "When the economy (i.e. GDP) grows by, say, 3 percent, but productivity also grows by 3 percent, it just means that currently employed workers produced 3 percent more things. Job growth is the essential engine of growth in this country. Until we start producing jobs, it's premature to say we are out of the recession."

Dotzour will speak later this week at the IMN Distressed Commercial Real Estate Forum in New York City. The audience will include 300 investors from all over the world who have raised funds to purchase real estate in the United States.

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Note to Editors

Additional research information:

Dr. Mark Dotzour, 979-862-6292 (chief economist)

Dr. Charles Gilliland, 979-845-2080 (rural land)

Dr. Harold Hunt, 979-847-9021 (commercial)

Dr. James Gaines, 979-845-2079 (residential)

Judon Fambrough, 979-845-2007 (legal issues)

For information on the Real Estate Center, contact Senior Editor David S. Jones at 979-845-2039 (voice), 979-845-0460 (fax) or d-jones@tamu.edu. Or contact Associate Editor Bryan Pope, 979-845-2088 (office) or b-pope@tamu.edu.

More than 25,000 pages of data are available at the Center's web site. News is also available in our electronic newsletter, our twice-weekly e-newsletter RECON (with RSS feed), our weekly Real Estate Red Zone podcast, on Facebook, daily NewsTalk Texas (with RSS feed) and on Twitter. To request a free press subscription to our quarterly flagship periodical Tierra Grande magazine, contact David Jones at the address above.

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A very important news alert from Market Watch, reblogged with permission

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Sept. 22, 2010, 10:59 a.m. EDT · Recommend (5) · Post:

U.S. house prices lowest in nearly six years

Prices fall 0.5% in July, and June price drop revised to 1.2%

By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S. house prices fell 0.5% in July to the lowest level in nearly six years, according to data released Wednesday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The 0.5% seasonally adjusted drop in monthly prices came after a 1.2% drop in June; the FHFA initially reported that June prices slipped 0.3%.

Over 12 months, prices are down 3.3%. The FHFA said that the July index is roughly the same value as was seen in September 2004.

The FHFA monthly index is calculated based on purchase prices of houses backing mortgages that have been sold to or guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The more closely followed Case-Shiller home price index for July is due on Tuesday.

House prices have been hurt more recently by the expiration of the home-buyer tax credit, and more broadly by the availability of foreclosed homes and a nearly 10% unemployment rate.

"In the absence of a rapid employment growth, and factoring in all the potential excess housing supply from foreclosures and looming delinquencies, housing prices will likely remain under pressure and continue trending lower throughout this year and next," said Yelena Schulyatyeva, an economist at BNP Paribas.