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Home sales jumped 167.7% in Brookshire, with 83 sales during the first quarter. The community was previously unranked on HAR’s Q4 2024 list.
HomeSmart’s yard signs will now have QR codes and NFC (Near Field Communication) tags allowing home shoppers to access property details.
Homes that are professionally staged not only attract more attention from potential buyers — they also sell faster and for more money, according to data from the National Association of Realtors’® 2025 Profile of Home Staging.
Despite the deceleration, the company, formerly known as CoreLogic, expects prices to rise another 4.9% over the next year.
The National Association of REALTORS’® Pending Home Sales Index rose 6.9% in March, compared to economists’ expectations of a smaller 1% gain.
A four-bedroom, 4.5 bathroom mansion in River Oaks is the most expensive new listing in the Lone Star State.
The pace of sales rose 7.4% compared to February, topping analyst estimates by a large margin.
When broken down by profession, Houston firefighters spend 118% of their income on homeownership, community and social service workers spend 74%, law enforcement officials spend 72%, educators spend 66%, healthcare workers spend 46% and lawyers spend 30%.
The surprisingly large decline in the pace of housing starts comes as builder sentiment remains depressed by tariff worries and high prices.
All homes were sold during March. Note that listing prices may differ from actual sales prices.
A majority of millennial home buyers would choose a smaller home if it offered better amenities, according to a new report from National Association of Home Builders.
“Each interaction indicates buyer interest in that home, and listings with higher engagement levels tend to sell faster and at or above the list price,” Zillow Senior Economist Kara Ng explained.
“In a plot twist, baby boomers have overtaken millennials — the largest U.S. population — to become the top generation of homebuyers,” said Jessica Lautz, NAR’s deputy chief economist and vice president of research.
The annual report surveyed agents in the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate network to find out how they’re helping clients get their homes ready to list.
Meanwhile, purchase applications showed their strongest increase in almost two months, rising 7% year over year.
These are the new Texas listings with the highest price tags. All properties were listed in the last month.
