According to a Dodge Data & Analytics report, Houston was ranked as one of the top metro areas for new commercial and multifamily construction in 2015, with a total dollar amount of $4 billion. Houston was ranked behind the Dallas-Ft. Worth

Keller Williams Memorial Realty hosted a presentation to help its agents understand how to stay out of situations that may risk their personal safety, and what to do if they feel threatened. After the 2014 murder of Arkansas Realtor Beverly

Real estate markets across the country continued hemorrhaging cash last October, a new report from CoreLogic confirmed, with the share of total sales falling 2.6 percentage points year-over-year. However, as is typical of the season, the amount of cash

The price of oil is still very low. In January, it hit a 12-year low, and now Brent crude sits at $34.39 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate is at $31.44. The forecasts for oil prices are dim, as

Home prices continued their steady climb rounding out 2015, rising both year over year and month over month, according to CoreLogic. Across the nation, home price appreciation averaged a 6.3 percent increase from Dec. 2014 to Dec. 2015 –

Norhill is Houston’s hottest neighborhood, determined a new report from Redfin. With a median sale price of nearly $500,000, Norhill is fairly expensive compared to the rest of Houston – which had a median sale price of only $212,000

New analysis from Dodge Data & Analytics paints an encouraging picture for Houston’s new construction marketplace The Houston housing market capped off a strong year of residential investment, according to the latest numbers from Dodge Data & Analytics. Per Dodge Data’s

Johnson Development Corp. revealed the name and details about their new Houston master-planned community. Veranda, located on 590 acres near the intersection of Williams Way Boulevard and U.S. Highway 59, will feature 2,500 homes with expansive porches. General manager

Homebuyers want to live in a nice neighborhood, and when homebuyers have a child, “nice neighborhood” translates to “wherever the good schools are.” Thanks to Niche, providing that information to clients is now easier than ever for agents. In

The latest Case-Shiller Indices offered numerable insights into the nation’s housing market Home price growth continues in the Texas housing market, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s. Although the Case-Shiller does not, amazingly, track

Home prices have been on a tear for the past couple years, and new homebuyers trying to enter the market have noticed it becoming pricier to not just buy a house, but even put a down payment on a

Texas is known for having a robust public school system. And in Houston, particularly, it’s a strong selling point for the thousands of new residents the city’s energy and healthcare sectors attract annually. Thanks to a new program to

Not every major city has an NFL stadium, but for those that do, the effects on the surrounding home and rental markets vary wildly, from boosting prices to over 40 percent in Philadelphia to bringing them down nearly 20

SplashData, a security solutions provider, released their annual list of the most commonly used passwords on the Internet. Using any of the passwords can leave people at risk from hackers getting to their information. Since 2013, the two most

“Houston Leads in Master-Planned Community Sales” was the title of a story Houston Agent magazine ran last week, reporting on a report from John Burns Real Estate Consulting that ranked the top 50 U.S. master-planned communities by net sales.

It’s tough to improve upon a record-breaking year – a fact Houston discovered in 2015. After a year of all-time best increases in prices and sales, Houston’s residential real estate market did not have many places to go in