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Trulia has launched a new tool to help homebuyers who may encounter discrimination due to their gender or sexual orientation. The real estate listing company will now include a feature called Local Legal Protections, that gives insight into a
Singles aspiring to become homeowners require patience before they can fulfill this element of the American dream, almost 11 years’ worth, according to a new Zillow analysis. To afford a 20 percent down payment on the average U.S. home,
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
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
According to new analysis of a consumer survey from the National Association of Realtors, the vast majority of non-homeowners said that they want to own a home in the future. NAR recently analyzed the results of its 2017 Housing
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
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
The Realtors Property Resource (RPR), a subsidiary owned by the National Association of Realtors, is suspending its Advanced Multi-List Platform project and will promptly start to wind down its operations. NAR CEO Bob Goldberg made the decision to cut
Home sellers in Q4 2017 reaped an average home price gain since purchase of $54,000, the highest since Q3 2007, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ Year-End and Q4 2017 U.S. Home Sales Report. In comparison, the average from the
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
Five months after Hurricane Harvey decimated the Houston area, there are still over 33,000 Texans living in temporary housing, including an estimated 4,300 people living in hotels. According to the PBSNewsHour, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Houston’s housing market had a strong 2017, with the majority of its neighborhoods experiencing an increase in home prices. Of all of Houston’s core neighborhoods, Memorial Park had the largest growth in median housing prices from 2016 to 2017,
For the third consecutive month, pending home sales rose slightly in December, according to the National Association of Realtors. The Pending Home Sales Index, an indicator based on contract signings, rose to 110.1 in December, an increase of 0.5
In this year’s Cost vs. Value report from Remodeling Magazine, “curb appeal” projects led the way with increases in value. The report measured the average payback for 21 common professional remodeling projects in 149 major U.S. markets. While only
Peter Vekselman has been working in the real estate industry for almost 20 years and completed more than 3,500 deals. With offices in Georgia, Florida and California, Vekselman has seen first hand the hurdles and difficulties that can come along
Despite gradual but continued recovery in most housing markets in the United States since the recession wreaked havoc on the country, there is still major disparity due to uneven shifts and progression in individual market values. According to a
