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With our first story in our “NAR Profile” series, we take a look at important homebuyer trends of the last year. Every year, Christmas comes several weeks early for housing analysts in the form of NAR’s “Profile of Home
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Though prices have shown signs of a slowdown at 2014 draws to a close, they’ve remained in positive territory. Though asking prices nationwide have shown some signs of a slowdown, they remained in confidently positive territory through October, according
Sellers are ignoring market realities for the hope of more money. In 2014, the real estate market has been an incubator, slowly coaxing the ailing industry back into full health. However, despite the considerable gains, especially to home prices
Just southwest of Houston, sitting on more than 700 acres, is Imperial Sugar Land, a master-planned community by Johnson Development. And earlier this week, Meritage Homes stuck a major claim in the development, purchasing 127 acres of the historic
The market share for first-time homebuyers just keeps falling; what could be behind the fall? First-time homebuyers in 2014 have made up just 33 percent of primary residence purchases, according to new numbers out this week from the National
Playing off its initials, HAR, the Houston Association of Realtors recently added the tagline Homes and Realtors on the HAR.com home screen in order to reflect the association’s decision to include property listings from all over Texas, not just the
Home prices continue climbing towards a healthy balance, but leave luxury properties behind. As has been the trend all year, home prices continued rising in September, according to a new report from CoreLogic. However, despite gains, the rapidity of
Woodson’s Reserve, a highly anticipated master-planned community in Houston, announced that, in addition to Toll Brothers, the 692-acre reserve will feature homes by homebuilders Meritage Homes and Perry Homes. Determined to stand apart from other communities in Houston, Woodson’s
There have been many encouraging developments for the housing market, but we’ve uncovered the most encouraging nugget yet. There were many stats provided in NAR’s latest existing-home sales report, many of which were positive for the housing market (see
RE/MAX of Texas invited 31 Realtors from RE/MAX The Woodlands & Spring to take part in RE/MAX of Texas recent The Top 500, which honors the companys top Realtor team leaders and individuals for sales success. The Top 500 is an
HousingWire, one of the nation’s most influential and most-read source of news and information covering the multi-trillion dollar U.S. housing and mortgage market, has named Agent Publishing’s co-founder and publisher Marci Sepulveda one of the 2014 Influential Women in
Minneapolis real estate mogul hopes to translate his former profession into a 24-hour TV network. There was a time when baseball was the all-American past time – that was obviously before cable television. Hoping to capitalize on the ever-present
When put in the proper context, residential construction has made considerable progress in recent years. The Census Bureau’s latest report on construction spending came out earlier today, and it represented what appeared to be more of the same –
Owning a home is getting cheaper, but people are still choosing to rent. Buying a home is affordable, despite it being the largest purchase of most people’s lives. Low mortgage rates are helping to make homeownership one of, if
Some measures of the U.S. home construction market suggest things have radically improved, but does the data support that? The Housing Market Index, the chief measure of homebuilder confidence for the single-family home construction marketplace, fell five points in
