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In the News: San Antonio’s economic sectors gear up in new year

As the leading source for unbiased data on new housing in the United States, Metrostudy economists are often quoted by major news sources. In the article below, they turned to Metrostudy’s economist, Jack Inselmann, for housing data in the San Antonio region.

San Antonio Express:

Area’s economic sectors gear up in new year: Outlooks are seen as strong for some, more modest for others.

MetroStudy Report - Texas Economic Outlook from Metrostudy

In spite of a slow recover from the national recession…Houston, Austin and San Antonio have already recouped all the jobs lost and Dallas-Fort Worth has regained nearly 70% of it’s lost jobs. This job growth has been spurred principally by the resurgent oil and gas industry. During the past week several articles have highlighted the continued expansion of domestic drilling in the nation and the projected continued growth in the oil and gas industry and more specifically the eagle ford shale. Texas’ heavy concentration of companies in the the oil and gas industry has allowed Texas to outperform the nation in terms of net new job formations. This is more evident in an analysis conducted by Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc. (EMSI), an Idaho based economics firm, which compares each states Total Job Growth to the Expected Job Growth. In the Article, “Which States are Growing More Competitive?” EMSI compares each state’s competitive advantage.

The competitive effect is calculated by the difference between the Total Jobs, 2011 and Expected Jobs, 2011. This number indicates the overall competitiveness of the state’s economy versus the national economy. If the competitive effect is positive, the state is gaining a greater share of the total jobs being created than the national trends would have suggested. In terms of percentage, Texas ranked second with our 2011 jobs being 6% greater than expectations based on the national economy. However, the 880,586 competitive jobs is by far the largest competitive effect in the nation when compared to the next largest state. Texas’ competitive effect is more than 6 times greater than New York’s 142,843 competitive jobs and nearly 10 times greater than Louisiana’s 96,439 competitive jobs. It is important to note that Texas is not the only state benefiting from the oil and gas industry, as many of that states with a positive competitive advantage have strong and expanding energy industries.
As the economy improves in the near term, the states with higher competitive advantages will likely be the first out of the recession and will continue to attract jobs. This will have a positive impact on the housing market withing these states leading consumers to develop more confidence in these local economy’s as they continue to attract more people in search of jobs.

MetroStudy Report - Houston New Home Sales Growing

MetroStudy Report, Houston TX - 2011-12-12 - Builders in a New Home Survey conducted monthly by Metrostudy show home sales have improved 13 percent over the last year. The homebuilders surveyed in this report account for approximately 67 percent of the new single-family housing activity in the Houston market. While new home sales are up, finished new home inventory is declining. Finished new homes for sale have decline by 22 percent this year. With a brisk pace of home sales and falling inventory, new home shoppers have less from which to choose. Metrostudy credits the local economy’s job growth and robust population growth for the increase in new home sales.

MetroStudy Report - 01/04/2012 – Houston Housing Forecast Luncheon with Metrostudy President Mike Inselmann

MetroStudy Report - Houston, TX - 2011-12-12 - On January 4th, 2012, Metrostudy President and Co-Founder Mike Inselmann will deliver his 2012 Houston Housing Forecast entitled, “Keeping the Faith: the Argument for Increasing Home Sales in 2012.” The speech, delivered over lunch, will seek to highlight the ever growing number of positive aspects of Houston’s economy and make the case that building activity will be forced to increase as a result of strong job gains and stout population growth.