Alexandra Kanik

1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Sam Kelly |Alexandra Kanik

Stacy Rojas, 49, tells the Houston Chronicle that she really enjoys spending time on the terrace of her downtown apartment in Houston, Monday, June 2, 2025. Downtown Houston has one of the fastest-growing populations of any Houston neighborhood in recent years. Yi-Chin Lee/Houston ChronicleThe pool of The Marlowe, a high rise in downtown Houston, is photographed on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 in Houston.

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Sam Kelly |Alexandra Kanik

Sitting on the patio of his weathered bungalow in Second Ward, Lupe Vasquez looks out onto York Street and the vibrant neighborhood where he grew up. These days, he barely recognizes it. Traffic zooms down the four-lane road — a “highway,” he calls it, compared to the two lanes lined with drainage ditches that made up York Street during his childhood. Across the street are two homes, one yellow and one blue, whose residents have also lived there for decades.

1 month ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck |Alexandra Kanik

The Houston region is blanketed by master-planned communities that have pushed farther from the city as developers chase available land. Many farming and ranching families have sold their acreage to real estate companies eager to transform pastures into subdivisions lined with new homes and manicured lawns. But drive an hour or more east, and you’ll still find vast rural stretches where some families have, so far, resisted suburban sprawl.

Mar 27, 2025 | houstonchronicle.com | Alexandra Kanik |Jonathan Diamond

As part of the process to be confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Italy and San Marino, billionaire Houston businessman Tilman Fertitta was required to provide broad financial disclosures and to withdraw from the day-to-day operations of his far-flung restaurant, gaming and hospitality empire. The disclosures filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics provide unique insights to the diverse holdings of one of the richest people in Houston.

Mar 23, 2025 | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck |Alexandra Kanik

Where and when do the Houston-area's richest homebuyers buy properties in Houston? To help answer those questions, we analyzed the records of the 140 most expensive homes sold this year as listed by the Houston Association of Realtors. Here's what we found. A closer look at the data shows the neighborhoods that dominate Houston's booming luxury real estate market, the peak months for closings and the average age of the homes that fetched the highest prices.