October was another month of declining foreclosures, both nationwide and in most major metropolitan areas, a CoreLogic report confirmed this week. Dropping by just over 21 percent year-over-year, the nation’s foreclosure inventory reached a 1.2 percent share this past October,

Houston provides strong opportunities at a fair cost Houston is the fifteenth best college town in the nation, according to a study released by WalletHub. The study looked not just at colleges themselves, but also the surrounding city and their

Despite slumping oil prices, layoffs and labor shortages, Texas’ and the Houston area’s populations are among the fastest growing, according to new U.S. Census Bureau numbers charting U.S. population growth by county between 2009 and 2014. Eleven Texas counties made it

Following La Marque Independent School District’s financial accountability rating of “Substandard Achievement” in October and loss of its accreditation in November, the Texas Education Agency announced on Dec. 2 that the entire district would be annexed into the Texas City

In September, distressed sales accounted for 9.7 percent of total home sales nationwide; the culmination of declines that span the past few years, according to CoreLogic. Considering the current pace of distressed sale declines, CoreLogic researchers determined that the

Houston joins 32 other markets with new peak prices in 2015 The Houston metro area saw a new peak median price in 2015 at $219,450 in June, according to a new RealtyTrac report. Houston was one of 33 markets

The Texas Association of Realtors (Texas Realtors) released its annual housing report this week, compiling and recapping key economic and market indicator stats from the association’s year of research reports, finding that despite an oil slump, labor shortages and

In the days leading up to Black Friday, which of course is now behind us for the year, eagerness bubbles up among bargain hunters as they lace up their midnight sneakers and check shopping lists to decide which discount they want more: a

The fall slump hasn’t hurt the market’s strength, as home prices across the country continued to climb in October, CoreLogic reported. The coupling of a healing economy and spotty but persistent inventory shortages are largely to thank (or blame,

2015 has been a neutral year for new construction in Houston Residential construction spending in the Houston housing market totaled $729 million in October, a 17 percent decline from Oct. 2014, according to new numbers from Dodge Data & Analytics. It was the latest sign

In late 2014, financial website 24/7 Wall St. confirmed that Houston homes, in true Texas fashion, are among the largest in the nation. In a separate but still complementary report, the American City Business Journal (ACBJ) elaborated on home

How have home prices progressed in the 2015 housing market? Home prices in the Texas housing market remained strong, with Dallas prices rising 0.4 percent from August to September and 9.0 percent from Sept. 2014, according to the new Case-Shiller Home

According to Google Maps data, Houston is one of the worst cities in the country for Thanksgiving travel. Out of 21 cities that Google investigated, Houston came in at No. 8, with long-time traffic haven Los Angeles on top. Here

The share of total residential real estate transactions carried out in all cash fell from 34.9 percent in Aug. 2014 to 31.7 percent this most recent August, according to a report from CoreLogic. Month-over-month, cash sales inched upward by

Marilyn Thompson, the vice president of sales at Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty, will be the brokerage’s new president. Thompson graduated from Louisiana State University and taught for seven years in Houston public schools. She then began her career in real

The mortgage process doesn’t often top the list of things people like to do, but as far as dealing with banks and moneymen go, customers are more approving of the mortgage process now than any other time in the