{"id":369343,"date":"2026-07-11T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369343\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:20:24","slug":"south-texas-city-emerges-as-one-of-the-states-hottest-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369343\/","title":{"rendered":"South Texas city emerges as one of the state\u2019s hottest markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter where you look, Hidalgo County\u2019s second-largest city seems to be immune to the kinds of market\u00a0stressors \u2014 like inflation and rising property taxes \u2014 that have stifled growth in other communities across the state. The city\u2019s relatively new mayor, Omar Ochoa \u2014 a former city attorney who was elected to office for the first time in November \u2014 attributes Edinburg\u2019s remarkable resilience<\/a> to years of momentum-building by previous leaders, and the energy of the city\u2019s people.<\/p>\n

Ochoa recently spoke with MySA about how\u00a0Edinburg is an ideal city for people at every stage of life and every income bracket, pointing to how financial media websites like SmartAsset and Investopedia<\/a> have named Edinburg among the best places for both\u00a0<\/a>Millennial<\/a>s and retirees. On one end of the spectrum, young people have better earning power in Edinburg. On the other, the city offers an affordable place to call home while relying on a fixed budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cEdinburg is just a very energetic city, and I think that brings people who are looking for a good lifestyle in a place with a lot of opportunity,\u201d Ochoa told MySA.<\/p>\n

That search for opportunity has had some pretty tangible results. Since the start of the year, the city has recorded more than $103 million in investment<\/a> by both commercial and residential property developers applying for building permits, according to the\u00a0Edinburg Economic Development Corporation. That includes dozens of new single-family and multi-family housing developments, new commercial construction, and upgrades at existing properties.<\/p>\n

Since 2020,\u00a0Edinburg\u2019s population has boomed<\/a> by more than 8% \u2014 from barely topping 100,000 in 2020, to soaring past 108,000 in 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Aside from the mayor, there\u2019s been another man with a front-row seat to Edinburg\u2019s building boom: Jaime Acevedo, who has served as the city\u2019s planning director since 2022.<\/p>\n

A lifelong Valley resident,\u00a0Acevedo has helped guide development in other cities, including his hometown of Mission. But watching Edinburg\u2019s evolution has been something else entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes you proud to be a part of the growth that\u2019s happening,\u201d\u00a0Acevedo told MySA.<\/p>\n

While other bustling metros, like Austin, have seen their housing markets flip from favoring sellers to buyers, or their commercial sectors stagnate,\u00a0Edinburg\u2019s growth has remained unabated. There are currently more than 140 new residential subdivisions \u201con our books,\u201d Acevedo said. That\u2019s nearly twice as many as Brownsville, which is the largest city in the Valley.<\/p>\n

That includes a number of new so-called \u201cmissing middle<\/a>\u201d housing projects that were once considered elusive for developers to build. Missing middle housing is the kind of higher-density development, like garden homes and\u00a0townhomes, that sits between sprawling single-family homes and clustered apartment complexes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of hard to believe, but that\u2019s still the case. We still haven\u2019t stopped our growth. We\u2019re still continuing to see large numbers of developments come into the city. The number of permits that are issued is still high,\u201d\u00a0Acevedo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No matter where you look, Hidalgo County\u2019s second-largest city seems to be immune to the kinds of market\u00a0stressors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2320,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-369343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysasotx","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}