Single-family homes sales in League City were up 13.7 percent in April from last year, and they’re part of a wide-ranging trend towards greater sales activity and economic growth in the Houston metropolitan area. According to the Houston Association

The Citizens’ Environmental Coalition presented its plan, ‘Visions for a Greener Houston Summit Proceedings,’ to city council members and the public Thursday, June 7. The report, presented at the city’s Green Building Resource Center, outlines short-term and long-term proposals

We’ve got an early read on single-family home sales from the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR), and they’re great news for the Houston real estate market. According to a post on HAR’s website from Tom Plant, sales for May

By Amber Statler-Matthews The October 2011 issue of Realtor Magazine reported in September Realtor.com had more than 50 million visits. Zillow.com saw more than 28 million in that same month while Trulia.com had more than 21 million visits. But

Rumors are swirling that Prudential Gary Greene, the oldest real estate firm in Houston and one of the Bayou City’s top performers, is changing franchises in 2012. The Gary Greene partners offered no comment for this story, but according

International buyers are making up an increasingly potent share of Houston’s real estate market, according to the 2012 International Real Estate Business Survey. Conducted by the Houston Association of Realtors and covered by the Houston Chronicle, the survey found that 39

One does not have to be a rocket scientist at NASA to see that things are pretty good in Houston right now. Home sales in April were positive for the 11th straight month, reaching their highest level since August

Costco, the popular warehouse club chain, is a great place for food, office supplies, clothing and…mortgages? Yes indeed – Costco has partnered with First Choice Bank and 10 other lenders to offer home purchasing and refinancing products through its

The First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS), a 55-year-old MLS that serves more than 30,000 agents throughout Georgia, was in the news last week when Lane Bailey, a Realtor in the state, discovered that when uploading photos to FMLS, agents

Agents looking to take their selling skills to another dimension will have one more tool in their arsenal. Miami-based software development company Evolution Ventures has recently launched their Sage iPad and web-based application for Realtors in the Chicago

The current technological landscape allows for seemingly limitless creativity when it comes to agent marketing efforts, and Cody Phillips of Prudential Gary Greene has surely offered one of the most interesting (and fun) videos of

The housing recovery continued rolling along this morning, with the Commerce Department reporting that new home sales rose 9.9 percent in April from last year. Sales rose 3.3 percent from March to April, and year-over-year median price of new properties rose

Judicial and nonjudicial states have radically different approaches to foreclosure proceedings, and they may produce different recoveries in the appropriate states. Currently, few analysts argue that a housing recovery is not happening; debate still persists, though, on the particulars –

Freddie Mac yesterday released the latest results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey, and it found what by now has become common – that average fixed mortgage rates hit record lows last week. The 30-year FRM averaged just 3.79

Foreclosure filings, which encompass default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions, were the lowest in April in five years, according to the latest data from RealtyTrac. The 188,780 filings for April were a 5 percent decline from March and a

  After experiencing record-breaking home sales in March, John Daugherty Realtors are continuing to exceed its goals. March set the tone for the best month in a 45-year history with sales of $136.2 million this year. The month of