Realtor View: Real estate in a coronavirus world

Almost immediately after writing last week’s column, government officials in Harris and Galveston counties designated real estate as an “essential” service during the coronavirus crisis. Then, days later, Governor Greg Abbott issued a statewide order that extended that designation across the entire state of Texas.
Even the federal government (U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) included residential and commercial real estate in