Real Estate Research Resources

WHY INVEST IN SAN ANTONIO?

• Military: Four military installations located in San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston, Brooks Air Force Base, Lackland Air Force Base, and Randolph Air Force Base. GREAT RENTERS!
• With a low unemployment rate (4.0% as of December 2007) and a steady influx of military transferees, medical personnel, and students, San Antonio presents lots of opportunities for rental properties.
• Health Care: The health care and bioscience industry contributes nearly $13 billion annually to the city's economy, and accounts for 14.5% of employees.
• Toyota: Opening in 2006 bringing thousands of jobs to the area for production of the Toyota Tundra truck.
• Rackspace is coming and bringing jobs! www.rackspace.com
• NEW PGA Golf Course & Resort under development (Here is the site: www.jwsantonio.com )

Real Estate Market Research Resources

• Here is a general link to the Texas A&M Real Estate Research website: recenter.tamu.edu
• Click here to use the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University to search interesting topics pertaining to real estate here in San Antonio.recenter.tamu.edu
• Here is a great site to become familiar with San Antonio as well as Property Search Engine: www.mysanantonio.com
• San Antonio Chamber of Commerce website: www.sachamber.org
• Here is a Google map to it:
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• Here is a link to the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Economic Data from 2002 to 2007: sachamber.org

Here is a list of PDF files I have found that may be helpful to your research. Each one is a reliable link, so when prompted click “OK.”

• Here is a link to the Real Estate market overview for San Antonio: recenter.tamu.edu
• Here is 6 pages of great information on the Texas Economy through the year 2030: recenter.tamu.edu

10 sites telling you why San Antonio is the place to invest:

1. San Antonio property values hold their value: NuWire Investor
2. NuWire Investor article: nuwireinvestor.com
3. Ezine article: ezinearticles.com
4. Realty times article: realtytimes.com
5. NARREIA article: www.narreia.com
6. MySA article: www.mysanantonio.com
7. Schertz #40 in US, #1 in Texas article: sanantonio.about.com
8. Texas real estate blog article: texasrealestate.blogs.com
9. Military growth article: woai.com
10. Real Estate Center from Texas A&M article (Industry coming to town): recenter.tamu.edu