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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Apartment development
Published: Tue, May 1, 2012
The Lincoln at Central Park was Gardner Tanenbaum's only institutional apartment development — meaning attractive to institutional investors looking for stable investment properties for the long term. But the developer broke ground on another one just Monday: Lincoln Pointe, a 324-unit, garden-style complex at...
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Oklahoma City housing market returns to balance
Published: Sat, Apr 28, 2012
Even with more houses listed for sale, buying increased to keep the supply of homes in check. With an estimated inventory to last 5.5 months, buyers and sellers are meeting to negotiate smack in the middle of the market, according to Realtors.
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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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Oklahoma City's Lincoln Plaza Office Park wants its state tenants back
Published: Sat, Apr 21, 2012
A massive hailstorm on May 16, 2010, left the office property in shambles. Then heavy rains a month later made things worse. By summer, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority was vacating the premises, some 150,000 square feet, follow by numerous other state agencies, all invoking a 30-day opt-out clause in all state...
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Malarkey Roofing of Portland, Ore., plants a factory in Oklahoma City
Published: Sat, Apr 14, 2012
It's family-owned Malarkey's third factory, after founder Herbert Malarkey's first venture in Portland in 1956 and a second plant opened in 2003 near Los Angeles. The Portland factory distributes from there to Minneapolis. The Los Angeles plant covers the country from there to western Texas. The Oklahoma City...
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