Joe Lovinger

@j_lovinger

Texas Reporter at Bloomberg News

Dallas, TX

Joined January 2018

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Sep 8, 2023

H-E-B isn't just a great place to buy tortillas — it might be the future of retail real estate. In the latest issue of The Real Deal, I dug into how the grocer became the largest private company in Texas and how it is reshaping the state's shopping scene: therealdeal.com/magazine/natio…

j_lovinger's tweet card. If you had a few minutes to explain Texas to an alien, you would do well to take it to an H-E-B. Knock out basic geography in the snack aisle with Texas-shaped tortilla chips. The alien could learn...

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Jun 30

“I don’t think that thing is ever coming back — it may still be here when you and I have departed the Earth, just standing there.” Energy mergers weigh on Houston real estate. Always a blast working with @DavidWethe: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. President Donald Trump is championing a revival of American fossil fuels with calls to “drill baby drill.” But in the US energy capital, a pullback in the industry has already left its mark.

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · May 28

This stat surprised me: All 10 nominees for best picture at this year’s Academy Awards filmed outside Los Angeles. And as the film industry increasingly shoots outside of Hollywood, Texas wants a piece of the action: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. Lawmakers are weighing bigger financial incentives for film, TV, but not if the state is portrayed negatively

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · May 2

Check out my story with @EK_Hudson featuring a school-bus-driving, golf-coaching superintendent and the changing nature of education in Texas bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. Abbott poised to sign school-choice bill after years-long quest

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Josh Wingrove@josh_wingrove · Apr 4

Texas Senator Ted Cruz joins the ranks of Republicans sounding the alarm over Trump's tariffs, @j_lovinger reports. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Feb 27

Back to some familiar territory: Austin real estate. The city built unprecedented amounts of new apartments, and rents tumbled: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. One tenant got two months free, $600 credit for signing lease as deals abound

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Feb 14

A trip into the world of penny hunters, who see a chance to profit off the demise of the Lincoln cent: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Feb 4

This week I visited Laredo, Texas, which facilitated about $320 billion of trade in 2023. Here’s a look at the biggest American trade crossing In a time of immense uncertainty: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. The panic eased in Laredo, Texas, but the clock is already ticking again.

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David Wethe@DavidWethe · Jan 23

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent letters to US congressional leaders requesting the federal government reimburse his state for the more than $11 billion it has spent on border security operations since 2021 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by @j_lovinger via @bpolitics

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Jan 14

As the Texas legislature kicks off today, the top priority for the state’s most powerful politicians and donors is school choice. Here’s my story about the big money and primary battles behind that push: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. Jeff Yass is about to find out what $16 million gets him in Texas.

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David Wethe@DavidWethe · Dec 16

Texas Governor Greg Abbott planning "a big French fry cook-off" if the Lone Star State surpasses France as one of the world’s largest economies. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Great story from @j_lovinger via @bpolitics

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Mar 4, 2024

The next installment in my Texas multifamily chronicles: therealdeal.com/magazine/march… As @jayparsons said, “Every developer in the country is out there trying to raise capital off the strategy that there’s gonna be a lot less delivering in 2026 and 2027.” Harder than it sounds!

j_lovinger's tweet card. If you slam the brakes on a speeding bicycle, you’ll flip over the handlebars. For the past three years, Texas apartment developers have been riding one such bike. In Dallas, Austin and Houston,...

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Dec 6, 2023

Part two of my look at what's going on in Texas multifamily markets — once an investor darling, now distress is looming. Here's who's finding deals in it all: therealdeal.com/texas/2023/12/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. So you want to buy an apartment building in Texas. Until recently, that would make you just another face in the crowd of buyers flocking to the Lone Star State’s booming multifamily market. But a...

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Nov 21, 2023

There will be winners, particularly those with enough cash to weather the short-term. But there will also be losers: scores of small developers, syndicators and Main Street investors are now staring down a massacre in the Lone Star state. therealdeal.com/texas/2023/11/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. For the past few years, Texas multifamily was one of the hottest real estate investments in the country. Not anymore. Industry players think the trouble has only just begun, and that might be a...

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Sep 5, 2023

therealdeal.com/texas/austin/2… The unbeatable TRD art team steals the show in my story from day 1 of Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial

j_lovinger's tweet card. Nate Paul was not in the Texas Senate chambers on Tuesday morning, but the state’s attorney general, lieutenant governor, highest judge and 31 state senators all were. And the real estate investor...

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Aug 23, 2023

therealdeal.com/texas/2023/08/… A dispatch from Dallas, where I ate the best cornbread of my life and met a bunch of multifamily investors trying to figure out what to make of lenders going cold on the hottest investment in the hottest state (at least for now)

j_lovinger's tweet card. Texas multifamily investors have been on a roller coaster ever since the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates last year, and at a conference in Dallas on Tuesday, they tried to figure out...

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Aug 3, 2023

Real estate is the best beat, part infinity: the story of how three unlikely collaborators stumbled into a murder-for-hire scheme. Come for the staged murder photo, stay for the stack of Armenian cash and the ghost gun. therealdeal.com/magazine/natio…

j_lovinger's tweet card. Murder-for-hire plots can make for strange bedfellows. Arthur Aslanian was a real estate developer who lived in a mansion and dropped in on his kids’ scout meetings. Sesar Rivera, his handyman and...

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Jul 3, 2023

Here, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker @MayorMattie told me what it's like to run the fastest-growing city in the nation. Permitting, property taxes and whether Fort Worth will outgrow Austin therealdeal.com/texas/2023/07/…

j_lovinger's tweet card. Fort Worth is on a roll, and it wants everyone to know it. The perpetual second-fiddle in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has some $2.3 billion worth of new developments in the pipeline, the Wall...

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Joe Lovinger@j_lovinger · Jul 3, 2023

In my deepest dive yet, I tried to get to the bottom of one of the biggest stories in Texas real estate and politics in recent memory. What happened, and what is going to happen, to Nate Paul? On the cover of The Real Deal's July issue: Judgment Day therealdeal.com/magazine/natio…

j_lovinger's tweet card. People who know Nate Paul speak of him as a shrewd, occasionally sweaty dealmaker with a great eye for opportunity, a penchant for expensive cars and balls of steel. A son of Austin, Paul has always...

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