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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.

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Environmental trustee finds time for reflection at Oklahoma Brownfields Conference Published: Sat, May 26, 2012 Marc Weinreich, environmental remediation trustee, made “Recovering from Our Industrial Past: Redeveloping Heavily Contaminated Properties,” a session for reflection, not just more data, at the Oklahoma Brownfields Conference. Read More
Buyers meet sellers, builders to keep Oklahoma City metro-area housing market balanced Published: Sat, May 26, 2012 The supply of homes for sale stood at 5.5 months on April 30, according to The Oklahoman's estimate using statistics from the Oklahoma City Metro Association of Realtors. That level of inventory supports balance in the market, according to Realtors. Read More
Rees Associates architecture firm to keep HQ in Oklahoma City with CEO in Texas Published: Thu, May 24, 2012 Oklahoma City-based Rees Associates, an architecture firm, has named Allan Parr its new CEO. Read More
Oklahoma City's Devon Energy goes for 'green' gold on former brownfield site Published: Thu, May 24, 2012 Executive Chairman Larry Nichols told the story of the dirt under the 1.8 million-square-foot corporate headquarters as the closing keynote speaker of the Oklahoma Brownfields Conference. Read More
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. Read More
Look down, not up, for commercial realty stats in Oklahoma Published: Sat, May 19, 2012 Oil and gas statistics are found in the fundamentals of property market strength in energy-driven Oklahoma. Read More
Oklahoma City developers hear capital calling Published: Thu, May 17, 2012 Commercial mortgage-backed securities are making a comeback as funding streams for commercial real estate development, and developers, brokers and others lie in wait. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Oklahoma City industrial market is hot with oil Published: Sat, May 5, 2012 Industrial property users absorbed twice as much space in the first quarter as in all of 2011, prompting some realty brokers to wonder if speculative development can be hard behind. Read More
Philadelphia investors pay near-record $77 million for Oklahoma City apartments Published: Tue, May 1, 2012 Gardner Tanenbaum Group sold Oklahoma City's 708-unit The Lincoln at Central Park complex, built in two phases in 2007 and 2009, to GoldOller Real Estate Investments, a 2-year-old fund affiliated with Philadelphia-based Multifamily Management Services, which dates to 1970. Read More
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... Read More
Oklahoma City apartment sale nets $35.75 million Published: Tue, May 1, 2012 Montclair Parc Apartments, 10900 S Pennsylvania Ave., has sold for $35.75 million. Read More
Apartment sale prompts Atlanta-based ARA's Dallas office to expand to Oklahoma City Published: Tue, May 1, 2012 The $77 million sale price of the Lincoln at Central Park in Oklahoma City came to $109,000 per individual apartment unit, the highest since 2008 and the most for a single-property transaction. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Colorado-based SecurCare Self Storage expands holdings in Oklahoma City area with $12.95-million purchase Published: Wed, Apr 25, 2012 The buyer, based in Lone Tree, Colo., bought four successful self-storage properties operating under the name A Plus Mini Storage, three in Norman and one in Moore. SecurCare now owns and operates 31 self-storage properties in Oklahoma. Read More
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... Read More
Internet scammers swindle renters using Oklahoma City home listings Updated: Wed, Apr 18, 2012 False rental listings that depict real houses actually for sale, not for rent, which have hit all over the country for years, have been hitting Oklahoma City lately. Read More
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... Read More
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