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Ballooning Prices Help Homeowners Regain Equity

American homeowners are finding that rising home prices are helping them reclaim some of the equity lost during the housing crisis, CoreLogic reports. The value of homes, since the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007, have been struggling

Disabled Veteran Receives Debt-Free Home From Texas Sentinels Foundation Inc.

Texas Sentinels Foundation Inc. recently presented Staff Sgt. Michael Craven with a home, making him the 15th American hero to receive a home from the Houston-based foundation. The nonprofit foundation that assists soldiers receiving combat injuries during their military service

Drones: The Future of Marketing in Real Estate?

In the ever-competitive real estate industry, agents are anxious to incorporate drone photography as a marketing tool used to provide buyers with the best possible view of a property. Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used exclusively for law

David Weekley Homes Bring New Central Living Community to Spring Branch

David Weekley Homes, the largest privately-held home builder in America, announced their intention to soon begin building Westview Manor, another new Central Living community in Spring Branch. The Central Living community will be a gated community located off I-10 at

Jennifer Wauhob Named Rising Star Among 20 Realtors Under 40

Houston Association of Realtors named Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene Realtor, Jennifer Wauhob, one of HAR’s 20 Under 40 Rising Stars in Real Estate. HAR is an online site that connects home sellers, buyer and renters

CoreLogic Reveals June Cash Sales

Cash sales, while still a prevalent portion of total sales, continue inching closer and closer to pre-crisis levels, according to CoreLogic. Cash sales continue ebbing closer and closer to pre-crisis levels, according to CoreLogic’s recent June sales report. Nationally,

Houston Asking Price Growth Among Best in Nation in August

Asking prices continued their ascent in August, according to new numbers from Trulia. Asking prices in the Houston area rose 10.4 percent year-over-year in August, according to the latest Price Monitor from real estate website Trulia. That gave Houston some of

Housing Inventory Not in Favor of First-Time Homebuyers

Though overall housing inventory is showing signs of recovery, it’s not progressing in a way that helps first-time homebuyers. According to the National Association of Realtors, 2014 has been a very good year for housing inventory. After falling precariously

How Much is $1 Million, Really?

$1 million is a hefty chunk of change, but new data shows that it goes much farther in some metro areas than in others. How much is $1 million, in the grand scheme of things? According to some very interesting

CoreLogic Report Examines Growing Home Prices

Home prices continue rising, CoreLogic finds, but the geographic drivers of the increases may be shifting. Home prices continued to show signs of improvement in July, according to the latest Home Price Index report from CoreLogic. Nationwide, home prices, including

Negative Equity Heavily Concentrated in Lower Price Points

Negative equity persists in today’s housing market, but its impacts are not equally felt in every price point. #471456425 / gettyimages.com Earlier this week, we reported on new findings by Zillow that a whopping 42.6 percent of Generation X

Residential Construction in Houston Stumbles in July

Construction spending has been soaring in Houston, but it cooled off a tad in July. #175937445 / gettyimages.com Residential construction spending in the Houston region totaled $758 million in July 2014, a 14 percent decline from last year, according to the latest stats from

New Report Talks Houston Affordability

The U.S. housing market has been in recovery mode the last two years, and despite gains, some areas remain in dire straights. #sb10064219d-001 / gettyimages.com If the real estate industry can be thought of as its own world, then

Falling Foreclosure Rates Represent A Housing Market That’s Bouncing Back

New CoreLogic report finds that even though foreclosures are still around, their presence is much less pronounced. #200146144-001 / gettyimages.com In 2013, foreclosures were at the epicenter of the housing conversation. However, after a year of tirelessly closing short

Houston Residential Construction Up Substantially From Historical Norms

Our marketplace has traversed quite the terrain since 2008, and new data shows that it has left the past behind. #79395361 / gettyimages.com We report quite regularly on building permits at the national level, but how have permits been

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene Add 3 New Members To Its Inner Loop Office

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene, one of Houston’s most prominent real estate brokerages, welcomed three new team members to its Inner Loop office this week, Realtors Jim Pinckley, Maro Yuanidis and Sharon Seligman. Pinckley, who comes

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