Houston posted another great month of sales activity in October, with a number of positive factors contributing to the outcome. Houston home sales were positive for the 29th straight month in October, posting a 13.5 percent year-over-year increase, according

Mayor Parker and Houston City Council recently acknowledged the commendable work of a local property manager. Alan Schnur, co-founder of Houston-based Hot Ocean Properties, a residential property management firm that oversees more than 2000 units and 400 homes between

Houston residents will soon have a way of traveling between the city and its north suburbs without the use of a car. In December, the North Line rail extension is expected to carry its first riders through Houston’s north

Home sellers have been tiptoeing back into the housing market throughout 2013, and we’ve collected the most important traits of those sellers. We’ve been covering the National Association of Realtors’ Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends report pretty extensively

Katy has broken new ground as the 4th highest site for construction in the Greater Houston Area, according to a recent article by Your Houston News. Houston’s population is making a westward push toward the Energy Corridor for sources

A brand new homebuilder in town is putting down its initial stakes in Firethorne, a 1,400-acre master-planned residential community in Katy/Fulshear.  Houston-based Ravenna Homes is launching into the builder team of  the top-performing master-planned community this month.   “We’ve

By Stephanie Sims Like many in the industry, since it’s the end of 2012, industry professionals are making predictions for this year, and Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia, is one of those people, giving his predictions in a

If you receive our Agent Update newsletter (and you should be signed up to get it every Monday – it’s chock full of useful information about Houston’s market!), you know we feature a Daily Stat. These statistics are the

Are you negotiating as effectively as you can be? Are you doing anything to sabotage negotiations? Read our top six tips and find

Ah, the iPad…Truly one of the most amazing, innovative pieces of technology that I have ever owned; but it wasn’t until I received my real estate license that I realized its true

After tacitly supporting the policy and hinting at a definitive approach, the FHFA has delayed its decision on principal reductions. Facing mounting support for the policy, Acting Director Ed DeMarco reversed himself somewhat in early April when he came

Rental vacancies and the homeownership vacancy rate both fell in 2012’s first quarter, according to new data from the Census Bureau. For rentals, vacancies have been on a steady decline since 2010, when the rate was 10.6 percent in

  A new survey by Prudential Real Estate says that American optimism  for homeownership has significantly risen over the past year. According to the national survey, 60 percent of Americans have a positive outlook on homeownership, which is up

The U.S. Treasury Department says it has sold off the final portion of $225 billion in mortgage-backed securities it purchased during the height of the financial crisis, and in addition, the sales of securities issued, primarily by troubled mortgage

Real estate is an industry of hyper-local interests, and few sectors of the market better demonstrate that than construction. Though some builders are growing, and raising prices as a result, others are still pursuing incentives, such as price cuts,

Starting today, the $25 billion Robo-Signing (or Foreclosure) settlement will begin to go into effect. The settlement, put together between the US government and five major banks (Ally Financial Inc/GMAC Mortgage, Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and