Houston’s housing inventory blues have not improved much with the New Year. Houston’s housing market has distinguished itself from other national markets in several ways the past few months; unfortunately, the area’s rapidly declining housing inventory has been one

Houston’s housing market continued to grow in confidence in January. Asking prices in the Houston-area housing market increased 13.5 percent year-over-year in January, according to the latest Price Monitor from real estate website Trulia. That continued Houston’s track record of strong

Houston’s housing market showed some definite positivity in 2013, according to CoreLogic. Home prices in the Houston marketplace rose 10.7 percent in 2013, according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Index. That was the sixth strongest yearly increase of all the

Last year proved a very positive one for residential new construction, according to the final Census Bureau numbers. Residential construction spending finished out 2013 at a very fine $352.6 billion, according to the final number crunching by the U.S.

Has Houston’s housing market picked up any steam in the last year, or is it moving sideways? We’ve been reporting with marked regularity on how the nation’s housing market has slowed down, but is that trend consistent here in

Housing inventory is something we follow pretty closely, and realtor.com’s latest numbers suggest quite a bit about the current housing market. Oh housing inventory, how we love you. One of the major narratives of the housing recovery, it seems

Houston put up some of the strongest residential construction numbers in the U.S. in December, though the market did take a step back from 2012. Residential construction in the Houston area totaled $543 million in December, according to the

Houston’s foreclosure inventory continues to improve, according to the latest research by CoreLogic. Houston’s foreclosure marketplace continued to improve at the end of 2013, according to CoreLogic’s latest National Foreclosure Report. In Dec. 2013, just 1.0 percent of the Bayou City’s

Last year closed out on a sour note for pending home sales, according to NAR’s final tally. Dec. 2013 was a rough month for pending home sales, with the Pending Home Sales Index dropping 8.7 percent from November to

Existing-home sales enjoyed a very healthy 2013, though it’s unlikely the market will repeat that performance in 2014. The housing market capped off a successful year in existing-home sales in December, with sales rising 1.0 percent from November to

The Census Bureau’s latest report on new home sales was a bit weak, but that does not mean that the sky is falling. We’ll get the bad news out of the way first: the sales of newly built single-family

November 2013 was a good month for home prices in Houston, according to the latest Case-Shiller report. Texas’ housing market retained its steady, unwavering character in the Standard & Poor’s latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the most authoritative look

We may complain about high housing costs in the U.S., but internationally speaking, we don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s a common complaint among consumers that their rent/mortgage payments are too high, but if they only knew

We’ve looked at how newly built homes are priced and how those prices have changed in recent years; now, we look at costs. The last couple weeks, we’ve looked at both how a single-family home is priced and how

Foreign homebuyers have been one of the more interesting developments in U.S. real estate in recent years, especially here at home. Houston was the seventh most popular real estate market for international homebuyers in Nov. 2013, according to analysis by Realtor.com.

How affordable is our city’s housing market, when we view the topic from a salary-centric perspective? With nationwide interest rates on the rise and home prices jumping aggressively in certain marketplaces, housing affordability has once again become a hot-button