Marissa Luck

Houston

Real Estate and Business Journalist at Chron

Journalist covering real estate and business for @HoustonChron. Story Tips? [email protected] Formerly @CoStarNews, @TheCoStarGroup @MyABJ

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Airbnb sell-off fuels Galveston’s biggest buyer’s market in years

3 days ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

Linda and Greg Stickline’s Galveston home is a vision of Victorian charm, with powder blue trim and intricate woodwork framing a wide front porch. Tall windows allow sunshine to filter inside, catching the light of an ornate chandelier anchoring a high-ceiling entryway and grand wood staircase. Before the couple moved into the home in 2012, they spent two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars restoring the 100-year-old property, adding a modern kitchen and breezy backyard living space.
Exclusive: Inside food distribution giant Sysco's first retail store in Houston

4 days ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

Sysco, one of the world’s largest restaurant food distributors, is piloting its first retail stores in Houston to attract small businesses seeking bulk food at wholesale prices, no delivery contract required. The first Sysco to Go store opened this week near Memorial City in a former Bed, Bath and Beyond space at 10515 Katy Freeway. A second location is slated to open later this summer in a former Sprouts grocery store near NRG Stadium at 1212 Old Spanish Trail.
Memorial City’s newest retail and dining hub breaks ground in Houston

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

A pair of prominent real estate developers have broken ground on a 35,000-square-foot retail complex in Memorial City, the start of a project converting a trio of warehouses into a modern mixed-use center flanked with outdoor spaces. MetroNational and Radom Capital launched the project, called Greenside, at 1085 Gessner across Interstate 10 from Memorial City Mall near Mia’s Table, Kirby Ice House and Torchy’s Tacos.
Highland Homes to build 620 homes near Katy, Fulshear

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

Preliminary work is expected to begin this summer on a 620-home neighborhood in the Fulshear area, within Hines’ massive new master-planned community west of Houston. Plano-based Highland Homes will develop and build the neighborhood within the 3,000-acre community planned in Fort Bend County. In December, Hines sold 188 acres to Highland Homes for the project, which doesn't yet have a name, south of FM 1093/Westpark Tollway and west of FM 359.
Apple and Nvidia picked Houston for AI plants. Can the city rise to the moment?

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

Global supply chain challengesEven as Nvidia and Apple move to reshore manufacturing operations to the U.S., their factories will still depend on an intricate global supply chain that leaves them exposed to tariffs. Article continues below this adApple and Nvidia’s Houston facilities will be assembling hardware components used in large data centers, but they won’t be manufacturing semiconductors. A chip might cross several times before it ends up in a finished product.
$175M in land deals may signal where Apple, Nvidia plan AI factories in Houston

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

While the location of Nvidia's new AI operations in Houston has yet been confirmed, Apple's new AI server factory is expected to open next year within an northwest Houston industrial park, according to sources family with the project. Apple and Nvidia's manufacturing partner, Foxconn, has committed about $175 million in the past several months to acquire buildings and about 93 acres in Houston to expand its operations here, according to with the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Golf course views, a 360-bottle wine room: Inside Houston’s most expensive homes

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

Houston’s most expensive homes sold in March were designed with indulgence in mind. They aren’t just expansive (with one topping 11,000 square feet), they’re layered with thoughtful details: a home theater with a 120-inch screen, a private guest cabana, reclaimed wood beams and plenty of outdoor entertaining areas for casual al fresco meals or catered soirées.
New Lake Conroe community offers single-family living, no mortgage needed

3 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

A 23.5-acre build-to-rent community is opening its first phase in Conroe, adding more options for residents who want to experience a single-family lifestyle in the suburb without the commitment of purchasing a home. Developers Landmark Properties and Open House recently opened Everstead at Conroe, a 190-home neighborhood under development just east of Lake Conroe and west of Interstate 45 at 7711 Longmire Road.
Houston's 10 best-selling neighborhoods, ranked by home sales in 2024

3 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

If you want to find where most Houston homebuyers are moving, look to the suburbs and along a few key highways. The 10 best-selling residential market areas in the region last year were located outside the city’s dense Inner Loop, according to new data from the Houston Association of Realtors. A mix of good schools, relative affordability, scenic surroundings and expanded highways continue to draw homebuyers to the city’s outer edges, especially to the west and north.
Cost of building a home in Houston could go up by $12K

1 month ago | houstonchronicle.com | Marissa Luck

Rising costs for builders If the larger tariffs are reimposed, depending on their scale, " it would increase costs, meaning builders would need higher prices to continue building. That could slow down housing construction in Houston," said Adam Perdue, a director at housing data firm Zonda who tracks the Houston market.