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PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE PACKING UP AND MOVING TO THE ’BURBS—and to this one Houston-area ’burb in particular—according to the people over at U-haul.
The team of experts in DIY moving released their annual migration trends report in January 2021, which tracks what percentage of their vehicles being used to move into one state or city and out of another in previous calendar year. The report found that, in what it described as “one of the more turbulent moving seasons in modern history,” American residents were moving to South Eastern suburbs at escalating rates.
Conroe--which was touted not too long ago as being the fastest-growing city in the country—welcomed some of the highest incoming traffic in our country in 2020. The peaceful, lake-adjacent suburb, located 40 miles north of Houston via I-45 and just a hop, skip and a jump north of The Woodlands, ranked 24th out of their report’s top 25 “growth cities,” or cities that had the highest net gains of one-way U-Haul trucks entering a city versus the branded trucks leaving Conroe.
About 17-percent more people moved into Conroe in 2020 than in 2019, according to U-Haul. People moving to into Conroe also represented 51.5 percent of U-Haul business in the area in the 2019 calendar year.
Considering on a state level, Texas saw the second most growth in incoming U-Haul movers in the country for the fifth year in a row! About 9-percent more people moved to Texas in 2020 than in the year prior, and incoming DIY movers represented more than 50 percent of U-Haul business statewide.
The study is careful to also add, “While U-Haul migration trends do not correlate directly to population or economic growth, the Company’s growth data is an effective gauge of how well cities and states are attracting and maintaining residents.”
Still, area realtor Jordan Schilleci, owner and broker of Jo & Co. Realty Group, can attest to an “overwhelming” interest in Conroe Texas this year.
“It’s been kind of intense and insane,” Schilleci says. “2020 compared to 2019 was a totally different market. I acquired so many more people moving to our area than ever before.”
Schilleci, who specializes in relocation, says she sees his clients moving to our area of Conroe from within Houston or from areas much farther away, like California, the Pacific Northwest, even as far away as New York, and New Jersey. They’re attracted to the area because they feel it’ll be a great place to raise their kids and because of the growing supply of newly constructed homes.
“People want options. They want new,” she says. “They’ve been focusing on HGTV a little too much, so they kind of want the flashiness of new construction.”
With The Woodlands nearly maxed out on residential land space for new builds, developers have turned to Conroe. Schilleci points to subdivisions like Grand Central Park, Fosters Ridge, Stillwater, and Arcadia where buyers can still purchase never-lived-in properties from a wide range of price points—something that seems completely foreign to Inner Loopers.
“If my client wants new construction, and they want to spend around $200,000, there aren’t very many options left out there anymore,” she states. “But Conroe is one of them.”
Still, this might not be the case for too much longer. “Developers are getting their hands on [land] and they’re not slowing down. Inventory is low for resale. And now, officially because of Covid, inventory is low for new construction,” she says. “It’s just selling like hotcakes.”
And though she and many others describes Conroe as the “land of opportunity,” moving there might just be an limited opportunity that buyers (and U-Haulers) need to act on sooner rather than later—because these kinds of attractive opportunities have a way of selling out so fast it’ll make your head spin.
PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE PACKING UP AND MOVING TO THE ’BURBS—and to this one Houston-area ’burb in particular—according to the people over at U-haul.
The team of experts in DIY moving released their annual migration trends report in January 2021, which tracks what percentage of their vehicles being used to move into one state or city and out of another in previous calendar year. The report found that, in what it described as “one of the more turbulent moving seasons in modern history,” American residents were moving to South Eastern suburbs at escalating rates.
Conroe--which was touted not too long ago as being the fastest-growing city in the country—welcomed some of the highest incoming traffic in our country in 2020. The peaceful, lake-adjacent suburb, located 40 miles north of Houston via I-45 and just a hop, skip and a jump north of The Woodlands, ranked 24th out of their report’s top 25 “growth cities,” or cities that had the highest net gains of one-way U-Haul trucks entering a city versus the branded trucks leaving Conroe.
About 17-percent more people moved into Conroe in 2020 than in 2019, according to U-Haul. People moving to into Conroe also represented 51.5 percent of U-Haul business in the area in the 2019 calendar year.
Considering on a state level, Texas saw the second most growth in incoming U-Haul movers in the country for the fifth year in a row! About 9-percent more people moved to Texas in 2020 than in the year prior, and incoming DIY movers represented more than 50 percent of U-Haul business statewide.
The study is careful to also add, “While U-Haul migration trends do not correlate directly to population or economic growth, the Company’s growth data is an effective gauge of how well cities and states are attracting and maintaining residents.”
Still, area realtor Jordan Schilleci, owner and broker of Jo & Co. Realty Group, can attest to an “overwhelming” interest in Conroe Texas this year.
“It’s been kind of intense and insane,” Schilleci says. “2020 compared to 2019 was a totally different market. I acquired so many more people moving to our area than ever before.”
Schilleci, who specializes in relocation, says she sees his clients moving to our area of Conroe from within Houston or from areas much farther away, like California, the Pacific Northwest, even as far away as New York, and New Jersey. They’re attracted to the area because they feel it’ll be a great place to raise their kids and because of the growing supply of newly constructed homes.
“People want options. They want new,” she says. “They’ve been focusing on HGTV a little too much, so they kind of want the flashiness of new construction.”
With The Woodlands nearly maxed out on residential land space for new builds, developers have turned to Conroe. Schilleci points to subdivisions like Grand Central Park, Fosters Ridge, Stillwater, and Arcadia where buyers can still purchase never-lived-in properties from a wide range of price points—something that seems completely foreign to Inner Loopers.
“If my client wants new construction, and they want to spend around $200,000, there aren’t very many options left out there anymore,” she states. “But Conroe is one of them.”
Still, this might not be the case for too much longer. “Developers are getting their hands on [land] and they’re not slowing down. Inventory is low for resale. And now, officially because of Covid, inventory is low for new construction,” she says. “It’s just selling like hotcakes.”
And though she and many others describes Conroe as the “land of opportunity,” moving there might just be an limited opportunity that buyers (and U-Haulers) need to act on sooner rather than later—because these kinds of attractive opportunities have a way of selling out so fast it’ll make your head spin.