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This Week in Houston Real Estate: Houston’s most expensive home listing has French inspiration

A chateau-style home located in Houston with a living room modeled after the Palace of Versailles is currently on sale for nearly $30 million, making it the most expensive listing in Houston, according to Mansion Global. Originally listed for

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Texas home sales mark all-time high despite Hurricane Harvey

Texas home sales and prices hit all-time highs for the third year in a row, according to the 2017 Texas Real Estate Year in Review report released this week by the Texas Association of Realtors. In 2017, 336,502 homes

Humble City Council approves new floodplain regulation

Humble City Council is the latest Houston-area city to approve changes to floodplain development regulations in response to Hurricane Harvey. According to the Houston Chronicle, the council unanimously approved a new code that requires homes and business within the

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This Week in Houston Real Estate: The Woodland Hills adds more homebuilders to its roster

Gehan Homes and K. Hovanian Homes were added to the list of homebuilders in The Woodland Hills in Conroe, the Houston Chronicle reports. Located 13 miles north of The Woodlands, the 2,000-acre community from the Howard Hughes Corp. broke

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate plans for a new League City office

One of Houston’s longest-standing real estate firm, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene, announced plans for a new office in League City during the second quarter of 2018. The new office will be located at the Marketplace

Realtor Emily Braud named licensed assistant for Jacci & Company at RE/MAX

Realtor Emily Braud is joining Jacci & Company team at RE/MAX The Woodlands & Spring as a licensed assistant to Realtor Jacci Kilgore. Braud is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and achieved her bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State

This Week in Houston Real Estate: Houston City Council set vote on new floodplain ordinance

Houston City Council will make a ruling on new post-Harvey rules for home constructions next month after a request for more public comments. The vote for the ordinance, known as Chapter 19, is scheduled for March 21. The ordinance sets

Houston was second in homebuilding activity in 2017

Texas led the homebuilding pack as Dallas and Houston had the most building permits issued in 2017, according to a new Trulia report. Trulia analyzed U.S. Census building permit data to measure total homebuilding activity in major metros across

Groundbreaking new website on flood zones could alter homebuying

A new website could alter the process of searching for a home in coastal cities in the future. The website, Buyers BeWhere, uses Google Maps to break down residential risk by home. The project has been gathering information for

This Week in Houston Real Estate: TAR Annual Winter Meeting recognizes its top members

On February 12th, the Texas Association of Realtors commended several of its top members and associations during its annual Texas Realtors Winter Meeting. The 2017 Texas Realtor of the Year went to Dan Hatfield of Farmers National Company in Comfort, Texas. This award

Houston home sales show a strong start to 2018

The new year kicked off with strong home sales as the Houston market saw year-over-year increases in sales, median pricing and total dollar volume, according to the latest report from the Houston Association of Realtors. Total property sales rose

This Week in Houston Real Estate: Committee announces preferred location for Houston bullet train

Source: Texas Central Partners Mayor Sylvester Turner and Texas Central Partners selected the Northwest Mall as its preferred location for the Houston station of the new bullet train service coming to Texas. The area was picked because the station

Population of unincorporated Harris County expected to exceed Houston’s by 2020

The unincorporated Harris County area could possibly see its population surpass Houston’s by 2020, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Harris County Appraisal District. According to the Houston Chronicle, this surge in population growth has Texan

New report shows millennials flock to Houston

Houston is among the top 10 U.S. cities with the highest growth in millennial population from 2010 to 2015, according to a new report conducted by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. The Millennial Generation: A Demographic Bridge to America’s

CoreLogic: Home prices increase for fifth consecutive month

Home prices continue to significantly rise both year over year and month over month, according to CoreLogic’s Home Price Index (HPI). U.S. home prices in December 2017 were a substantial 6.6 percent more than December 2016 and 0.5 percent more

Top 5 closings in Houston real estate for 2017

1) Harry Kuper, real estate professional of Kuper Realty Holding Company, closed the sale of Houston’s highest-priced house of 2017: the extravagant Emerald Lake Estate located on 37307 Diamond Oaks Drive in Magnolia, Texas for $17,500,000. Located 40 miles

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