Fresh numbers dropped this week on the nation’s new construction markets, but there remain oddities and curiosities. The Census Bureau this week released fresh numbers on new single-family home sales, and it was a verifiable bloodbath. At a seasonally

As a long-term investment strategy, few consumers were willing to touch real estate during the downturn, but new research suggests that has changed. Back in 2011, few people wanted to touch real estate with a 20-foot pole – what

March was a very good month for price per square foot in our housing market, according to Movoto. Those signs of a housing recovery just became a bit brighter. According to the latest State of the Real Estate Market

While everyone fixates on the specific rate of existing-home sales, here were the similarly important findings in the report. By now, you’ve probably seen the headlines stemming from NAR’s latest existing-home sales report, namely that sales declined 0.2 percent

We keep hearing from trade groups that lending standards remain high, and the data would seem to support that claim. It’s arguably the most common motif among housing trade groups today – lending standards remain high, and are limiting

We’ve been hearing for some time that rents are increasing, but new numbers from Zillow present the issue in a new light. Rising rents, like falling home prices, have been one of the prevailing narratives of the post-bubble housing

Reports of suburbia’s death,  it would appear, have been greatly exaggerated. It’s been a common trope in post-bubble news coverage – the United States, after several decades of embracing suburban sprawl, is returning to its urban roots and, once

David Weekley Homes have announce the construction of homes in the company’s newest central living community of Bracher Estates. Located in the Spring Valley area and close to the major employers both in downtown and Energy Corridor, the gated

Community Firethrone captures the spirit of the West with it’s introduction of 2014 Realtor Rewards Round Up program. The program offers Realtors cash rewards up to $2,000 and is to continue till April 30 of this year. Realtors who

Deductions are a big part of homeownership; how common are they here in our local marketplace? If you know homeownership, you know the mortgage interest tax deduction, the great grandmaster of tax deductions in the U.S. Indeed, homeownership and

Though still low, builder confidence showed improvement in April, according to new NAHB numbers. Builder confidence recovered somewhat from March to April, inching up from 46 to 47, according to the latest Housing Market Index from the National Association

Two of Houston’s most respected and successful commercial real estate brokers were recognized during the 2013 NAIOP Broker of the Year Awards on February 19 at River Oaks Country Club. Sanford Criner of CBRE received the Office Broker of the Year Award, and

Magnolia, Texas-based Gracepoint Homes will begin construction on a large residential project near interstate 45 in Conroe to fill a high demand for single-family homes near the Exxon Mobile campus, reports the Houston Business Journal. Development of Phase 1

Housing construction performed below expectations in March, according to the latest Census Bureau numbers. March was a month of good and not great news for new construction, according to the latest Census Bureau report, with housing starts rising 2.8

It’s been a verifiable roller coaster ride the last couple years when it comes to housing inventory, but are we finally out of the woods? Housing inventory in the Houston housing market continued its downward slope in March, falling

In the age of new urbanism, where does our metro area rank in terms of density and sprawl? “Density” and “sprawl” have become big buzzwords in housing the last couple of years, and for good reason. With gas prices,