Loans closed faster in April than in any time over the last 12 months (excluding last month), Ellie Mae’s new Origination Insights Report confirmed. Questions about the true impact of TRID are likely to follow. In the wake of TRID’s

Nowhere in the United States are starting salaries (adjusted for cost of living) higher than in Houston, a new report from WalletHub confirmed. Be sure to let your relo buyers know – because there are a lot of them.

A lot happened in Houston real estate news this week. But if you weren’t able to keep up, don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s what happened: Luxury condo instead of Italian townhome – Within six months, Stolz Partners

Sixteen percent of agents have at least one personal assistant. The median age of new Realtors is 43 years old. And 83 percent are very certain they will remain active as real estate professionals for another two years. Those

The average meeting is expensive, long and a waste of time. Those are not the inherent traits of meetings; they are the reality of what contemporary business culture has relegated them to.. But you and your agents deserve better.

Houston is one of the best cities in the country for startup companies, according to a joint analysis from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 1776 and Free Enterprise. And it has room to improve further. “We are at

Single-family homebuilding is showing encouraging strength in 2016, according to new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. Through April, single-family authorizations were at a rate of 736,000, which is 3.3 percent above the revised March rate of 725,000. Monthly new

Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes remained unchanged in May at a level of 58 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). Ed Brady, the NAHB’s chairman, explained in the association’s report

In our latest Real Data report, we’ve detailed the top offices by total sales volume in the Greater Houston area. Click on the tabs below to see which offices came out on top in the first quarter of 2016 in Katy,

It was a busy week in Houston real estate, as is so often the case. But if you weren’t able to keep up with everything, don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s what happened: Construction job losses – A

Millennials may be America’s largest, most vivacious generation yet, but new research suggests that their homebuying prospects have only worsened with time. According to a new analysis from Zillow, more Millennials now live with their parents than at anytime

Overall mortgage activity is down in the Houston housing market this year, according to RealtyTrac’s Q1 2016 U.S. Residential Property Loan Origination Report. Through the first quarter, RealtyTrac found, Houston lenders oversaw 25,081 originations, a 13 percent decline from 2015’s fourth quarter and a

Despite the pressures of a faltering economy and the still-below-$50-per-barrel price of oil, Houston’s residential real estate market continues to break records, according to the Houston Association of Realtor’s April market report. “There is little to complain about in

We know, we know – private mortgage insurance (PMI for short) is one of the more profoundly unsexy topics in real estate, and offers little of the glitz and glamor of staging, showing and negotiating. But it is a

Every year, REAL Trends, a leading source for industry analysis and information, publishes its 500 lists, which rank the country’s top residential brokerages by transaction sides and total sales volume. This year both Texas and Houston were well represented.

The latest Real Data report is in. Click on the tabs below to see the top buy- and list-side agents in Houston in Q1 2016. Buy-Side List-Side Buy-Side Agent Brokerage City Sales Volume (in millions) Ronnie Matthews RE/MAX Legends Spring 44