We all know that rising mortgage rates and price increases have taken a bite out of affordability, but how does renting compare with owning in 2014? The homeownership/renting debate is an everlasting one, but in the post-boom housing market,

The Houston housing market has made considerable strides in the last year, according to CoreLogic’s latest MarketPulse. Home foreclosures in the Houston housing market are down 49.1 percent from their peak, according to the latest MarketPulse report from CoreLogic,

Home prices in Texas continued to show improvement in December, according to the latest Case-Shiller indices. Texas home prices remained stable in December, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s. Though S&P does not track prices

Houston’s inventory woes continue to boost prices, but they are starting to impact home sales in the Bayou City. With record-low inventory in Houston pushing down home sales in January, homebuyers ended up paying more for the homes that

Has price per square foot continued its 2013 ascent in the New Year? Many things occurred in the housing market in 2013, but perhaps the most notable was the marked ascent in home prices and the price per square

A new study finds that Houston has the most active new construction market in the nation. Houston led the nation in single-family home construction, according to a Metrostudy cited by a CultureMap Houston article. According to the article, the

Housing affordability has fallen nationwide in the last year; what of here in Houston? Housing affordability in the Houston housing market fell 10.2 percent in 2013, according to newly released data by the National Association of Realtors. From 2012 to 2013,

Houston’s housing inventory blues have not improved much with the New Year. Houston’s housing market has distinguished itself from other national markets in several ways the past few months; unfortunately, the area’s rapidly declining housing inventory has been one

Houston’s housing market continued to grow in confidence in January. Asking prices in the Houston-area housing market increased 13.5 percent year-over-year in January, according to the latest Price Monitor from real estate website Trulia. That continued Houston’s track record of strong

Houston’s housing market showed some definite positivity in 2013, according to CoreLogic. Home prices in the Houston marketplace rose 10.7 percent in 2013, according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Index. That was the sixth strongest yearly increase of all the

Has Houston’s housing market picked up any steam in the last year, or is it moving sideways? We’ve been reporting with marked regularity on how the nation’s housing market has slowed down, but is that trend consistent here in

Housing inventory is something we follow pretty closely, and realtor.com’s latest numbers suggest quite a bit about the current housing market. Oh housing inventory, how we love you. One of the major narratives of the housing recovery, it seems

Houston put up some of the strongest residential construction numbers in the U.S. in December, though the market did take a step back from 2012. Residential construction in the Houston area totaled $543 million in December, according to the

Houston’s foreclosure inventory continues to improve, according to the latest research by CoreLogic. Houston’s foreclosure marketplace continued to improve at the end of 2013, according to CoreLogic’s latest National Foreclosure Report. In Dec. 2013, just 1.0 percent of the Bayou City’s

Last April, buyer demand in Houston grew so strong that inventory bottomed-out at 0.6 months, as Houston Agent reported in January’s Inside Edition. With figures like that, Houston’s inclusion in the country’s top 10 moving destinations comes as no

November 2013 was a good month for home prices in Houston, according to the latest Case-Shiller report. Texas’ housing market retained its steady, unwavering character in the Standard & Poor’s latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the most authoritative look