Real estate editor Richard Mize has edited The Oklahoman's weekly residential real estate section and covered housing, commercial real estate, construction, development, finance and related business since 1999.
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From 1989 to 1999, he worked for the Times Record News in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he first worked as a crime reporter, then general assignment reporter, farm-ranch-agribusiness editor, regional editor and city editor. Mize grew up on a farm and cow-calf ranch in Sequoyah County and attended Muldrow public schools. He holds a bachelor of science degree in journalism (news-editorial), a bachelor of science degree in political science (state and local government) with a minor in economics, all from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. <br /><br />
He holds a master of arts degree in history from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. He is pursuing a master of divinity degree from Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa.
Distinctive Oklahoma City projects rise on more than money
Published: Sat, May 19, 2012
Some 500 people from all facets of commercial real estate, from passionate folks driving some of the city's most distinctive commercial districts to those who see a building as a transaction waiting to happen, heard from one another at The Mayor's Development Roundtable.
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Xceligent, already in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, rises to take on data services CoStar, LoopNet
Published: Sat, May 12, 2012
Xceligent provides data for buying, selling, leasing, developing and managing commercial real estate. With a cash infusion from a new strategic partner, it plans to expand from 30 to 65 top U.S. markets within 36 months. Also: Sears sells; Oklahoma broker relationship bill advances.
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Oklahoma City office market healthy, Xceligent reports
Published: Sat, May 5, 2012
Xceligent's office market summary reported a healthy first quarter in the metro area, thanks largely to purchases by Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s purchases and continued expansions by medical, engineering, law and energy companies.
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Bill aims to clarify Oklahoma Broker Relationships Act
Published: Sat, Apr 28, 2012
Oklahoma House Bill 2524 would spell out one single definition for “broker” and a broker's basic duties, but leave the ins and outs of which broker does what, and for whom, in a property transaction to contracts. The Oklahoma Association of Realtors and Oklahoma Real Estate Commission sought the changes.
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Weather updates by text get personal in Oklahoma
Published: Sat, Apr 14, 2012
Friday evening's severe weather could have been be a pre-run for Saturday, which could be a rerun of May 24, 2011, according to weather experts ... and Facebook, Twitter and my wife's text messages.
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The Oklahoman/NewsOK launches Property Lines, a real estate blog
Published: Sat, Mar 24, 2012
The best way to describe the difference between news reporting and blogging: Reporting goes in The Oklahoman and on NewsOK. Blogging about the news goes on the blog — because blogging is shooting the bull about the news, not reporting it. Check out the Property Lines blog by Real Estate Editor Richard Mize.
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Oklahoma is OK in latest home price statistics
Published: Sat, Mar 3, 2012
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City and Tulsa were lost in the crowd in the most recent quarterly home price statistics from the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The FHFA tracks repeat transactions in its analysis of the combined mortgage records of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's largest database of conventional,...
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Retail shining crew forming for Interstate 240, south Oklahoma City loop
Updated: Fri, Mar 2, 2012
Urban Land Institute Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City Planning Department and South Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce are working with an “Urban Innovations” grant from the national ULI Foundation. The aim is to gather information and draft short- and long-term recommendations for revitalizing retail investment along...
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