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Texas’s Data-Center & Chip-Plant Boom Is Bending the Housing Market — How Builders Finance Through It (2026)

The short version: Texas now has more data-center and chip-plant construction underway than any market in North America, and that boom is bending the housing market in two directions at once — soaring demand for new homes near the megasites, and a labor-and-land squeeze that is making those homes slower and costlier to build. For […]

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Texas Data Center Boom 2026: Financing the Housing Build-Out Around Megaprojects

Quick answer: Texas’s AI data-center and chip-plant boom — 248+ projects statewide, roughly 6.5 GW under construction, and JLL projecting Texas becomes the world’s largest data-center hub by 2030 — is creating an acute housing shortage in boomtowns like Abilene, Taylor, Sherman and Bastrop. For real estate investors, that translates into demand for new rental […]

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Ground-Up Construction Loans: What Lenders Really Want to See

Construction lending is the most scrutinized loan product in private real estate finance, and for reasons that make complete sense once you understand the lender’s perspective. Every other real estate loan type is underwritten against an existing asset: a property that can be inspected, appraised, photographed, and analyzed based on what it is right now. Construction lending is underwriting against a plan. The collateral does not yet exist