Tag Archive: Scott Davis

1. Map: Where new luxury homes are selling the fastest in the Houston area

   May 7, 2018 5:16 pm

   The neighborhoods with the fastest-selling new home construction are different than they were a decade ago.

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2. Why Houston luxury home sales are slowing down

   May 3, 2018 4:55 pm

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3. Harvey ushered in a new reality for Houston real estate

   April 27, 2018 8:17 pm

   Davis, a senior vice president for Meyers Research, a company that serves the homebuilding industry, questions the logic of the city’s new building regulations that require new construction in flood plains to be elevated two feet above the 500-year flood plain, while many existing homes will remain at the level they were before the storm.

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4. MUDs developed after 2009 fared better during Harvey, study finds

   April 27, 2018 8:12 pm

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5. Meyers Research Finds Houston Utility Districts Resilient During Hurricane Harvey

   April 24, 2018 10:30 pm

   HOUSTON, April 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Meyers Research, a premier consulting practice and the housing industry’s leading provider of rich data for residential real estate development and new home construction, announced the results of an extensive study of the effects of Hurricane Harvey on over 960 Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs) in the Houston area. The study was commissioned by the Association of Water Board Directors – Texas, a statewide educational and advocacy group for utility districts in Texas that exists to educate these volunteer directors on the latest technology, laws and rules that will affect their daily operations of their districts.

   The results of our study show that:

   Fewer than 8% of houses in Houston MUDs experienced flooding, which was largely concentrated in areas that were developed before the adoption of modern detention regulations, and most even before FEMA had ever released flood plain maps of the region.

   The current system of detention regulations work. Less than 3% of the houses that were identified as flooded were built after 2009 and complied with the drainage and detention regulations adopted after Allison.

   MUDs endured the storm. MUD directors and operators responded quickly to deploy back-up systems and additional pumps powered by generators to keep water and wastewater services operating. Less than two dozen MUDs reported damage to district-owned infrastructure and the vast majority of that damage was almost immediately repaired. Only 12 MUDs (statewide) had to issue “boil water notices” in the storm’s aftermath. MUD directors and operators responded quickly to deploy back-up systems and additional pumps powered by generators to keep water and wastewater services operating.

   MUDs are financially healthy. MUDs are conservatively managed, and only seven districts which experienced significant flooding have less than one year’s debt service payment in cash reserves. Collectively those districts are expected to have adequate tax revenues to cover that debt service. MUDs have reserves to cover operating costs, debt service and capital improvements and provide water and wastewater services, and other amenities like parks without the pension liabilities of a city or county government.

   MUDs have long been recognized for helping Houston house its residents affordably; during Harvey and its aftermath, these districts also demonstrated they are reliable and financially sound providers of critical infrastructure to Houston-area residents.

   A copy of the full study may be found at www.awbd-tx.org under the HURRICANE HARVEY REPORT tab.

   About Meyers Research

   Meyers Research, a Kennedy Wilson Company, is the housing industry’s leading provider of rich data for residential real estate development and new home construction. Headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA, the company has developed an innovative Zonda iPad application geared for homebuilders, multi-family developers, lenders, and financial institutions to analyze the latest housing market trends, and inform the strategic thinking behind its premier consulting practice.

6. Analyst: Houston home building slowing, Brazoria County heating up

   February 12, 2018 7:32 pm

   Davis singled out Brazoria County as a place seeing some of the strongest growth in the region thanks to a boom in petrochemical plants.

7. More renters find homes for themselves in suburbia

   December 1, 2017 7:00 pm

   Scott Davis reports in Houston Chronic a precipitous rise in that single-family rental market. Suburbia, often associated with for-sale signs, mortgages and homeowner associations, is increasingly becoming a place for renters.

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8. Legislator explores ‘flood pool’ disclosure

   December 1, 2017 6:57 pm

   Scott Davis featured in Houston Chronicle, is helping Texas study the impact of Harvey flooding on the properties within Houston-area water districts to compare devastating damage.

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9. Listen: Riding out the hurricane in a new house

   October 30, 2017 6:55 pm

   Our Senior VP of Advisory, Scott Davis, had to wade through chest-deep water when his home flooded during Hurricane Harvey. In stark comparison, his neighbor’s new home remained completely dry. Listen to Scott’s story about why brand-new homes are safer:

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10. Housing hot topic at economic development luncheon

    October 26, 2017 7:38 pm

    Hurricane Harvey left almost 13,000 homes in Brazoria County with water damage, but the county’s thriving economy likely will mean a relatively short recovery time. (Subscription Required)

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