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About 30 miles west of downtown Houston, in the town of Katy, two established builders have begun work on Avalon at Spring Green, a new, 200-house gated community. According to a recent report from The Rancher, Coventry Homes and
One of the largest residential real estate brokerage firms in Houston, Prudential Anderson Properties, recently acquired high-ranking team Big City Properties, according to the Houston Business Journal Prudential Anderson has a ranking of number 17 on Houston Business Journal’s Largest
Foreclosure activity in the Bayou City is among the lowest in the nation, and it still fell by a whopping amount from 2012. Foreclosure activity in the Houston area was down a whopping 52 percent year-over-year in August according
Though Houston’s housing market has received high marks before, its performance on equity may be most impressive of all. Houston’s housing market has become a poster child for the housing recovery, but courtesy of the second quarter Equity Report from
The NAHB’s Improving Markets Index has been closely tracking the housing recovery, and it put up some its best numbers yet in September. The National Association of Home Builder’s Improving Markets Index, one of the leading measures of the
The nation’s mortgage markets have improved dramatically in the last five years, but how many negative equity properties linger here in Houston? More than eight million homeowners are own the verge of reaching positive equity, according to the U.S.
The homeownership rate has been on a steady decline the last five years, but will that trend continue? The homeownership rate has decreased in the last five years, according to Census Bureau data, and as a result, renting has
The latest National Foreclosure Report from CoreLogic highlighted a number of positive developments in the nation’s mortgage markets. The nation’s mortgage markets continued to improve in July, according to the latest National Foreclosure Report from CoreLogic, with foreclosure inventory,
Asking Price growth appears to be slowing nationally, but that was hardly the case here in Houston, according to new research from Trulia. Houston’s for-sale market continued to outpace its strong rental market in August, according to the latest Price
The Hispanic population in the U.S. has grown by leaps and bounds, as has its importance on local housing markets; where are Hispanics most concentrated? Hispanics represent a growing part of the U.S. population, and are inarguably the hottest
The nation’s home prices continued to improve in July, with the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic posting fantastic year-over-year numbers. Home prices continued their double-digit performance in the CoreLogic Home Price Index, rising 12.4 percent year-over-year in July. That
Coventry Homes and Taylor Morrison have partnered to develop Avalon at Spring Green, a gated enclave of 200 homesites. The two builders have started construction of model homes in Avalon at Spring Green, located in Katy, and will have
The housing market, according to the latest numbers from Redfin, seems to be slowing down; is that the case here in Houston? For the third straight month, the percentage of listings that went under contract within two weeks decreased
United Real Estate is a fast growing real estate company with offices located in five major U.S. cities. This year, they made over 200 million dollars in sales from January through July. The brokerage began as recently as 2011,
Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene commemorated its 50th anniversary and were honored with an eponymous day in the process. According to a recent article by the Houston Chronicle, the real estate group, which started in 1963
It’s no secret Houston has one of the most booming housing markets in the nation, and a lot of that is due to the oil and gas industry. Large companies such as Phillips 66 and Exxon Mobil Corp are
