Nationwide, asking prices outpaced rents in Trulia’s April Price Monitor, but the rental market only grew in strength in Houston. The latest Trulia Price Monitor, which analyzed rental and single-family home listings on the syndication site, spelled a familiar

First-time homebuyers represent a hugely important swath of the homebuying public, and a new study has pinpointed some of their key characteristics. First-time homebuyers serve an integral role in the U.S. housing market. Along with comprising between 30 and

CoreLogic’s Home Price Index has been on a tear the last year, and its findings for March 2013 were its strongest findings yet. The March CoreLogic Home Price Index put up its best numbers yet in the housing recovery,

Competitive home prices and low interest rates created record affordability levels, but a new study finds housing costs are still quite high for many. Competitive housing prices and falling interest rates pushed housing affordability to record levels in 2012,

The FHFA has been resisting calls for a principal reduction program, but a new study by the CBO has lent considerable heft to the policy’s corner. It’s been an ongoing saga, one of Shakespearean proportions: will the FHFA ever

Houston’s housing market activity increases prices, creates bidding wars and encourages buyers to snatch up the little inventory that is left. Houston’s housing market activity has driven up prices and created bidding wars for the best properties. Buyers, who

This month, Ravenna Homes, a brand new homebuilder in town, is launching into the builder team of Firethorne, a 1,400-acre residential community in Katy/Fulshear. The Firethorne team is looking forward to working with Ravenna Homes. “We’ve got deep-rooted relationships

A brand new homebuilder in town is putting down its initial stakes in Firethorne, a 1,400-acre master-planned residential community in Katy/Fulshear.  Houston-based Ravenna Homes is launching into the builder team of  the top-performing master-planned community this month. “We’ve got deep-rooted relationships

The government’s Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, received a stinging report from the inspector general of TARP that questioned its merits. The government’s Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, was among its major responses to the housing downturn,

  Bridgeland, an 11,400-acre community, has donated a homesite for the Greater Houston Builders Association (GHBA) fundraiser, the Benefit Homes Project. This is the fourth year a homesite has been donated in this

Fannie Mae is releasing a loan-level credit performance data on 18 million mortgages, which will help develop potential risk sharing transactions. Fannie Mae announced that it is making loan-level credit performance data available on over 18 million single-family mortgages

Mel Watt, the Democratic representative from North Carolina, is President Obama’s pick to head the FHFA, a role that would give him enormous sway over housing. News broke yesterday that Mel Watt, a long-time Democratic representative from the state

National homebuilder Meritage is planning to close phase two of the newly developed White Wing subdivision in New Braunfels by the end of this month. Last year it closed phase one from real estate investment firm Rockspring Capital. Rockspring

Residential construction spending continued its forward progress in March, and the construction industry on the whole expanded impressively. Residential construction had another strong month of activity in March, with construction spending on residential projects in the month rising to

Consumers, real estate agents and even lenders have been sharing the optimism on the housing recovery, but how do appraisers see things? Slowly but surely, more and more components of the U.S. economy have jumped on the housing recovery

Texas posted both monthly and year-over-year increases in the February Case-Shiller, as the state continued to roll towards a housing recovery. There news was uniformly for Texas home prices in the latest Case-Shiller report from Standard & Poor’s, with