Joe Lovinger

This week I visited Laredo, Texas, which facilitated about $320 billion of trade in 2023. Here’s a look at the biggest American trade crossing In a time of immense uncertainty: https://t.co/ZDk837dCqR

RT @DavidWethe: Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent letters to US congressional leaders requesting the federal government reimburse his state f…

As the Texas legislature kicks off today, the top priority for the state’s most powerful politicians and donors is school choice. Here’s my story about the big money and primary battles behind that push: https://t.co/1Q5clnp9H1

RT @DavidWethe: Texas Governor Greg Abbott planning "a big French fry cook-off" if the Lone Star State surpasses France as one of the world…

The next installment in my Texas multifamily chronicles: https://t.co/VRJyMVrDxg As @jayparsons said, “Every developer in the country is out there trying to raise capital off the strategy that there’s gonna be a lot less delivering in 2026 and 2027.” Harder than it sounds!

Part two of my look at what's going on in Texas multifamily markets — once an investor darling, now distress is looming. Here's who's finding deals in it all: https://t.co/gpwfFankIL

There will be winners, particularly those with enough cash to weather the short-term. But there will also be losers: scores of small developers, syndicators and Main Street investors are now staring down a massacre in the Lone Star state. https://t.co/P6oNj2ZAvy

H-E-B isn't just a great place to buy tortillas — it might be the future of retail real estate. In the latest issue of The Real Deal, I dug into how the grocer became the largest private company in Texas and how it is reshaping the state's shopping scene: https://t.co/oSKuM5wi6h

https://t.co/O6ChBRmvVv The unbeatable TRD art team steals the show in my story from day 1 of Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial

https://t.co/SMQmCSqXRL A dispatch from Dallas, where I ate the best cornbread of my life and met a bunch of multifamily investors trying to figure out what to make of lenders going cold on the hottest investment in the hottest state (at least for now)

Real estate is the best beat, part infinity: the story of how three unlikely collaborators stumbled into a murder-for-hire scheme. Come for the staged murder photo, stay for the stack of Armenian cash and the ghost gun. https://t.co/kqWjd6Fixd

Here, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker @MayorMattie told me what it's like to run the fastest-growing city in the nation. Permitting, property taxes and whether Fort Worth will outgrow Austin https://t.co/uEQeHXef7Y

In my deepest dive yet, I tried to get to the bottom of one of the biggest stories in Texas real estate and politics in recent memory. What happened, and what is going to happen, to Nate Paul? On the cover of The Real Deal's July issue: Judgment Day https://t.co/SJmsjMvCMM

https://t.co/jhtpXeXJq0 Sen. Phil King asked God to help solve the state’s property tax reform mess. “Well, Father, we’re back again, and we have mixed emotions about it,” King said as he led the invocation to start the session.