Looped In

Believe it or not, Texas real estate is being shaped by outer space. As billionaires bent on commercializing travel to the heavens base their operations in remote parts of Texas, those areas are seeing a huge influx of employees and investors. Andrea Leinfelder, the Chronicle’s space reporter, joins Looped In to discuss the impact on the local real estate market. Tweet at Rebecca Schuetz and read her real estate reporting at HoustonChronicle.com. Read Andrea's series Battle of the Billionaires: Part 1) Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos' space race is heating up, and Texas gets a front-row seat Part 2) Elon Musk brings exploding rockets and real estate to South Texas. Not everyone is happy. Part 3) How Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin changed the small West Texas town of Van Horn Reporter's Notebook: A squished tarantula and being followed by a Tesla: How we got the story on SpaceX and Blue Origin Support the show: https://offers.houstonchronicle.com/?offerid=125&origin=newsroom&ipid=podcast See omnystudio.com/listener