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Sugarland’s Riverstone community has much to celebrate during its 10-year anniversary. The 2011 year-to-year sales up 35 percent, home sales this past August set an all-time record high, and it is listed among the top 20 selling communities in
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas), along with its member institutions, were pleased to announce today that it has awarded more than $3.3 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants to 14 low- to moderate-income housing
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The Houston Business Journal (HBJ) recently published a list of the most expensive Houston-area homes sold in 2010. The list is made up of 51 homes
Mobile platform designer Smarter Agent announced today it has developed a mobile application for Prudential Gary Greene Realtors. The app will benefit real estate clients by providing MLS data and location-based searches through any mobile
According to a national study, the median home in Harris County is priced at $130,000. This puts Harris County about a third of the way down the national list for median
In regards to new home starts, the Houston real estate market is currently leading the nation. Houston has also managed to keep property value from falling during recent years. Unfortunately for homebuilders, new fees and regulations for home construction
The Houston-based real estate management company, McCord Development Inc., recently sold the Willowick Court Townhomes to an affiliate of Martin Fein Interests, a real estate development, construction and management business. Fein plans on demolishing the 10-acre property, located at
It’s been a good year for Woodforest, the master-planned community located along a Montgomery golf course. This year’s new home sales show an almost 20 percent increase over last year’s through early
The community of Riverstone has set new records with 2011 new-home sales thus far, with a substantial increase over last year’s year-to-date sales for
NASA may conduct training and space research at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, but the area’s real estate may soon be joining those astronauts if it keeps posting year-over-year sales like it did in August. According
Glenbrook Valley is steadily regaining popularity and growing into one of the city’s up-and-coming communities. The neighborhood, located on Houston’s southeast side, was marked as a historic designation earlier this summer. Residents say they are drawn towards the mid-century
Cypresswood Estates, a housing community for active adults over the age of 55, is a finalist for this year’s Multifamily Pillars of the Industry award by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The grounds for the nomination: the
LGI Homes, a Texas builder with operations in Houston, had a record-breaking August with 84 closings, a 47 percent increase over July. Ironically, July in itself was a record month for the developer, when it sold 57 properties. August
Prudential Gary Greene, Realtors announced its new Multicultural-International Real Estate Division today. The division will be focused on servicing the needs of Houston’s growing multicultural population. “With the Asian and Hispanic population growing at three times the rate of
Consumer confidence is the name of the game for recently-implemented laws in Texas, which place new rules and restrictions on several areas of real estate with more to follow in 2012. The product of two laws passed earlier by