Travelers can book a number of unique stays through Airbnb, ranging from a Bavarian castle in the Texas Hill Country to treehouses and shipping container homes across the Lone Star State. This roundup ...

E-commerce giant Amazon is evidently entering into America’s multi-billion dollar real estate business with a recent listing of shipping container houses. Everybody's gotta start somewhere, after all.

BASTROP, Texas — Ellen and Gary Bearicks live in Sugarland, but they are frequently at their property in Bastrop, where they stay in their two shipping containers. “Isn't that a weird idea?” Ellen ...

MCKINNEY, Texas — After years of planning, the Cotton Groves subdivision in McKinney is starting to take shape. The low-income home community made out of shipping containers is a novel concept for ...

McKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - A new opportunity has come along for North Texans struggling to pay their rents and mortgages. The City of McKinney is about to break ground on a large neighborhood of ...

The Austin yard of Bob's Containers echoes with the typical sounds of home construction: drilling, hammering, sawing and more. "Except our medium is a metal box," says co-owner Robert Balderas.