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Texas homebuyers and sellers love their local real estate agents

While there might be horror stories of homebuyers and sellers having to deal with difficult or unresponsive agents, Texas residents seem to have the exact opposite experience. According to the 2017 Texas Realtor Satisfaction Index from the Texas Association

Affordable housing post-Harvey: A Q&A with Houston Housing Authority CEO Tory Gunsolley

Although affordable housing has been a growing concern in Houston over the past year, Hurricane Harvey further exacerbated the problem. Forest Green Townhomes in northeast Houston experienced severe flooding, impacting 84 families. In order to help those families, the Houston Housing Authority

Houston ranks ninth on NREI’s top 10 suburbs for millennials

As millennials get older, they’re trading in their train passes for minivans as they head for the suburbs, this according to National Real Estate Investor’s survey of suburban areas with the best potential for millennial population growth. Thanks to

This Week in Houston Real Estate: Groups unveil 20-year plan for downtown

Source: The Downtown District The Houston Downtown Management District and Central Houston Inc. unveiled their 20-year plan for the city — “Plan Downtown: Converging Culture, Lifestyle and Commerce.” The proposal calls for the development of 12,000 multifamily units to support

Compass plans huge expansion after raising $100 million

Compass, a real estate technology startup, announced that it has raised $100 million during the Series E investment round, which it will use to expand to every major city within the United States. The company is now valued at $108

Houston housing market continues to show strong recovery through October

The Houston real estate market showed its resiliency after Hurricane Harvey with home sales and rentals continuing to show growth for the second month in a row, according to the latest monthly report from the Houston Association of Realtors.

Houston home prices jump 3.3 percent since last year

Compared to last year, home prices in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA rose 3.3 percent in September 2017, with month-by-month prices increasing by 0.1 percent between August and September. According to CoreLogic’s U.S. Home Price Index, as of September

Hurricane Harvey causes first decline in Texas home sales since 2012

Texas home sales declined 0.3 percent in Q3 2017, which is the first time Texas home sales have declined on a quarterly basis since Q2 2012, according to the 2017 Q3 Texas Quarterly Housing Report released today by the

This Week in Houston Real Estate: ‘Fixer Upper’ stars help 81-year-old with Harvey home recovery

Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of the HGTV show “Fixer Upper,” made news in Houston as they volunteered to help an 81-year-old woman rebuild her home after it was damaged by Hurricane Harvey. Along with 80 ExxonMobile volunteers, they

See the top elementary schools in Houston

One of the major factors that homebuyers take into consideration when moving is what school their children could attend. In fact, 22 percent of realtor.com visitors age 35-44 identified the desire to be near good schools as one of their

Texas residents are the most loyal to their home state

According to a new survey, Texas homebuyers are the most loyal, with the highest percentage of them looking to move within the state than any other state in the United States. LendingTree reviewed purchase mortgage loan requests for primary residents

Houston leads the way in green job opportunities

As environmental concerns start to come to the forefront of many people’s minds, some are starting to take action by going to into green job fields and, according to a recent report, Houston is one of the best cities

Construction starts decline in September, report finds

By and large, construction starts across the board in the Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land MSA saw a dip last month, this according to a recent report from Dodge Data & Analytics. In September, spending for nonresidential building dropped 34 percent from

HUD allocates an additional $57 million for Harvey recovery

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced this week that an additional $57.8 million will sent to Texas to help the state recover from Hurricane Harvey. “Clearly, the long-term needs in Texas far exceed this allocation so

Past-due mortgages increase after Harvey and Irma

Following the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the amount of non-current mortgages and mortgage delinquencies in Texas and Florida have risen significantly since this past September. Since the storms hit, disaster-afflicted areas have seen a 9 percent spike

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Texas sees the largest increase of immigrants in the past six years

From 2010 to 2016, Texas had an influx of 587,889 immigrants, which is the largest of any state during that period. According to analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies of recent U.S. Census data, Texas had a 14