South Texas Markets
Investing in Alice, Texas
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South Texas Markets
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Key Takeaways
- The energy-services hub
- What works here
- Underwriting the cycle
The energy-services hub. Alice runs on the Eagle Ford's service economy: trucking yards, equipment shops, and the payrolls that ride the rig count an hour from the coast. Pricing is deep-value with cash flow to match.
What works here. Low-basis single-family rentals, owner-finance exits, and commercial along the Highway 281 spine. New civic investment around the stadium district adds a fresh demand anchor the spreadsheets have not priced yet.
Underwriting the cycle. Energy towns breathe with commodity prices, so buy at a basis that survives the exhale. Bought right, Alice rentals produce returns the big metros simply cannot, and the buy-in is a fraction of the risk people assume.
The South Texas angle. Averlend underwrites this every week in Corpus Christi and across Nueces County. If you are working a deal in downtown or anywhere else in the metro, the theory above comes with a local desk attached: see our Corpus Christi lending page or send the deal directly.
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