Click on the tabs below to see the top single-family, condo and multifamily closings in Greater Houston’s housing market in October. Single Family Condo Multifamily Single Family Sales Price Property Agent Office $3,500,000 Arrowwood Ci, 11682, Houston Joel Rankin J.D. Rankin

The city of Pearland, about 12 miles south of the Texas Medical Center, reported a 52 percent spike in single-family homebuilding permits to 1,457 for fiscal year 2015, which ended Sept. 30. Residential permits in Pearland totaled $328.4 million

Homes are selling rapidly at Bluejack National, Tiger Woods’ new luxury golf resort. Although the development has yet to open, 43 houses have already been pre-sold. The new residential community will also include an exclusive championship golf course designed by Woods.

The Hanover Co. is under contract to buy land in the Galleria area. The Houston-based multi-family developer plans to purchase a parcel of land just south of its Hanover Post Oak luxury apartment tower off South Post Oak Lane. The deal is expected

Houston’s real estate market has been in a tenuous state since the price of crude plummeted in late 2014, but in November a real crack finally surfaced, as home prices fell for the first time since Feb. 2012. According to

Houston will be the No. 8 housing market for Millennial homebuyers in 2016, according to a new analysis by realtor.com. With 26 Fortune 500 companies in the city, realtor.com cited the Bayou City’s strong economy and career opportunities for new college

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