In the Houston real estate market, sometimes your end goal can be overshadowed by the process of how to achieve it. Development is a challenge, even in a city with no zoning laws, as Oxberry Group learned when it eyed a 1.5-acre property at the corner of San Felipe and Chimney Rock in Southwest Houston. The intersection appeared to be the ideal site for a luxury retail development, but there was a reason no developer had touched it yet. “That land has been in a deed-restrictive association for more than 80 years,” principal Sean Jamea told those in attendance at REDNews’ Houston & Southeast Texas Development / Redevelopment Summit. Seeing that obstacle, Oxberry led a nine-month marketing effort to educate homeowners in that association, Briarcroft, about the project and Houston’s everchanging real estate market. In the process, Jamea said he got to learn about the area as well. “One homeowner shared that when she was young, her house was on San Felipe and she used to ride her horse up and down San Felipe and Chimney Rock,” he laughed. Click to read more at www.rednews.com.