Average closing costs in Texas are among the highest in the nation, a new report from Bankrate confirmed. The implementation of TRID, and its new closing disclosure form, has helped reduce confusion around what closing costs actually entail. But

Houston was the national leader in new home construction until it lost that title to Dallas in the first quarter of 2016. A recent report from MetroStudy confirmed it maintained its No. 2 ranking in Q2. Home starts were

The statistics are hardly encouraging: student debt has more than tripled in the last 10 years; its serious delinquency rate is higher than any other form of debt, including mortgages and credit cards; it now totals $1.37 trillion, and

Home sales in the Greater Houston area took a spill in July, falling 8.6 percent year-over-year, according to the latest analysis from the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR). Totaling 8,571, Houston home sales were down for the first time

There are a handful of luxury markets in Greater Houston seeing positive price growth. There are even more that are not. Through this year’s second quarter, luxury sales were booming in Sienna Plantation, according to a report from Redfin.

Click on the tabs below to see the top single-family, condo, and multifamily closings in Greater Houston’s housing market in July. Single Family Condo Multifamily Single Family Sales Price Address Agent Brokerage $5,500,000 2 Rivercrest Dr., Houston Diane Kingshill Martha

J.D. Power today named its annual home buyer/seller satisfaction award recipients, and in all four real estate consumer categories – first-time buyers, first-time sellers, repeat buyers, repeat sellers – Century 21 was the top pick; though, the brokerage tied once with

By 2100, 46,800 Texas homes could be underwater, according to a new study. The paper, authored by professors Robert Deconto, of the University of Massachusetts, and David Pollard, a senior scientist with Pennsylvania State University’s Earth and Environmental Systems

Americans are deeply pessimistic about economic mobility. By an overwhelming margin, they believe it is harder today to secure a middle-class lifestyle than it was for past generations. And a large majority continue to see the housing market in

Home sellers in the Houston housing market have seen some of the best returns in the nation, according to the Q2 2016 U.S. Home Sales Report from RealtyTrac. Basing its analysis on publicly recorded sales deeds from more than 900 counties nationwide, RealtyTrac found

In June 2015, Houston’s median home sales price peaked at $219,558. One year and a 2 percent decrease later, and the city’s median sales price has fallen by more than $4,000, according to a report from RealtyTrac. Houston’s housing

By the end of 2016, the Department of Energy estimates 1 million homes will be equipped with a solar energy system. And still there is no definitive way to value those systems in appraisals. A new report from the

In January, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a division of the Treasury Department, announced two Geographic Targeting Orders, or GTOs, to monitor all cash luxury transactions in both Manhattan and Miami. The purpose was to help authorities identify possible

There are a number of circumstances under which a home can be built, but in 2015, homes built for sale went up faster than any other, according to a new report from the National Association of Homebuilders. In a

Home price growth in the Lone Star State remained stronger than the national average, according to the new Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s. The leading home price metric in housing, the Case-Shiller, found that Dallas home prices (Houston prices

Today, builders are facing a serious labor shortage. A few years from now, that shortage could get even worse. In a new report from John Burns Real Estate Consulting, the research group’s vice president and chief demographer, Chris Porter,