December 3rd Luncheon

This luncheon will be at Maggiano's!!

Speaker: Charles Porter, Ph.D.

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Charles Porter, Ph.D. is an accomplished and award-winning author, speaker, testifying real estate expert in over 840 cases nationwide, and served in various faculty teaching roles at St. Edward’s University 2008 – 2026. In 2016 he earned a Ph.D. in Economics and Business from the Universitat Jaume I in Spain with “Cum Laude” distinction.   He is also a nationally recognized water rights expert. He recently won the Educator of the Year Award from the Austin Board of REALTORS®.

He was elected Chair of the Education Standards Committee of the Texas Real Estate Commission in 2022, served as co-author of TREC’s Legal I and Legal II 2022-2023 Manual and TREC’s Broker Responsibility Manual for 2023-2024.  He also served as Alternate to the TREC Broker/Lawyer Committee.

His authored other college textbooks, Sharing the Common Pool: Water Rights in the Everyday Lives of Texans (College Station: Texas A & M Press, 2014), Public Water Policies: The Ultimate Weapons of Social Control (New York and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and Water Rights in the United States: A Guide Through the Maze (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). For Taylor and Francis /Routledge he authored a chapter in the college textbook The World of American West titled “The Hydraulic West: The History of Irrigation.”

He authored “TREC Contracts Now Include Information on Water Rights” Texas Realtor Magazine, May/June 2026, “What’s a Cap Rate?” published in Texas Realtor in their January/February 2023 issue. With Ed McCarthy, Esq. he authored “Methods and Challenges in the Credible Valuation of Water Rights in Texas” presented at the University of Texas School of Law’s 2016 Texas Water Institute. He authored “Of Urgent Concern - What Prompted House Bill 162, the Groundwater Conservation Act of 1949” which appeared in the peer-reviewed academic journal Panhandle Plains Historical Review, Vol. LXXXVIII, 2017 (published in January 2018). In November 2019, he authored “Build Your Competency,” an article published in Texas Realtor Magazine, in which he analyzed the revised duties of real estate license holders to be geographically competent in the areas in which they serve. With Gary Pate, Esq., he authored “Navigating Seller’s Disclosure After Harvey” which appeared in Texas Realtor Magazine in November, 2017. In 2015, he authored and published the article titled “What you need to know about mineral rights” that appeared in the January/February 2-15 issue of Texas Realtor Magazine.