April home sales saw a 7 percent jump as prices hit new highs, according to the latest report from the Houston Association of Realtors. Single-family home sales grew to 7,070 units sold, up from 6,611 units sold last year,

Most Americans think home prices in their area are going to rise, but the majority also still think that now is a good time to buy, according to the latest Gallup poll. Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance poll

Houston continues to show strong growth in the housing market during the first quarter of 2018 as the city maintains its second-place position behind Dallas-Forth Worth for annual new home starts. According to Metrostudy, Houston saw a 7.5 percent

Today’s graduates are more likely to be living with their parents than graduates from the previous decade. According to Zillow’s analysis of 2016 Census data, 28 percent of recent graduates live with their parents — up from 19 percent

Agents and brokers who are embedding Google Maps into their listings will now have to pay to do so. The Google Maps application programing interface (API) allows agents and brokers to embed maps into listings on their websites. This

As of the first quarter of the year, over 5 million properties were underwater with a mortgage at least 25 percent more than the property’s estimated market value.  The 5.2 million properties account for 9.5 percent of all U.S. properties

Houston was ranked the fourth best city for first-time homebuyers, according to a new study by SmartAsset. To get the rankings, SmartAsset analyzed cities for the number of HUD approved lenders, loan funding ratio, average price per square foot

Listing your home on a Wednesday tends to be more profitable than listing on any other day of the week, according to a new study by Redfin. The study analyzed 100,000 homes sold in 2017 and compared the sales

Living in a major city often means sacrificing nature and green space in order to have convenient access to major amenities as well fine dining, shopping and entertainment. Some of the new developments coming to the Houston metro area

Houston homebuyers have a wide variety of neighborhoods to choose from, with factors such as proximity to job hubs, quality of school districts, and options for entertainment, culture, and shopping topping buyers’ wishlists. Two recent reports by Redfin —

As millennials continue to enter the housing market, real estate developers are adapting their housing options in Houston in order to attract and retain to downtown. According to research from The Kinder Institute, millennials age 25 to 34 made

There are many reasons to feel optimistic about Houston’s housing market even as the city continues to recover from Hurricane Harvey. Single-family home sales dropped by 2.5 percent year-over-year in March, from 6,982 for the month in 2017 to

CoStar recently looked at which parts of the Houston market have seen the highest number of multifamily developments. According to its report, more than 90,000 units have been delivered across the metro since 2010. From 2010 to 2017, Inner Loop submarkets

When entering the market for the first time, many homebuyers are unsure of what exactly is needed to qualify for a mortgage, leading to their application being rejected. A new report by LendingTree looked at over 10 million mortgage applications

John Daugherty, Realtors officially opened their new office in The Woodlands last month as the brokerage continues to increase its focus on the growing and highly desirable area. Located at 1950 Hughes Landing Boulevard, the luxury brokerage recently opened an office

Starter homes with farmhouse-inspired features and craftsman designs are demanding the highest sales premiums, according to RealEstate.com. In the study, RealEstate.com analyzed the listing descriptions of millions of entry-level homes (homes at the bottom third of the market) to