The National Association of Realtors’ Pending Home Sale Index bounced back to positive territory in May, rising 5.9 percent to its highest level in two years. With a reading of 101.1, the index is 13.3 percent higher than a

After considerable anticipation and rumor, Gary Greene, Realtors has announced that it will be leaving Prudential Real Estate Services and re-joining Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate. The firm will now operate as Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary

Home prices in Texas continued their strong 2012 performance in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index, according to Standard & Poor’s (S&P). Nationally, home prices increased 1.3 percent from March to April, which suggests, after seven long months of price declines, that

Sales of new singe-family homes for the month of May, according to new data from the Census Bureau, rose 19.8 percent year-over-year to a two-year high. The 369,000 seasonally-adjusted annual rate was also 7.6 percent above April’s rate of

A pinball property, or pinball listing, as it’s also called, can be a real estate agent’s best friend – just as long as they’re not the ones listing the property! Pinball listings, as the new term has been coined,

Today, more than ever, sites such as Google and Yahoo! are the true drivers of the Internet, transporting users to web pages based on one thing – the results of their algorithms. It’s imperative that agents learn to harness

The Federal Reserve announced earlier today that it would be extending its Operation Twist program through the end of the year to stimulate financial markets. Though it sounds like it came from the mind of Lewis Carroll, the Twist

Technology is constantly changing the way we interpret real estate, and a couple of new auditory innovations are looking to overhaul our perceptions all over

Existing-home sales in May declined 1.5 percent from April to May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.55 million, but were up 9.6 percent from May 2011, according to the National Association of Realtors. Median existing-home price, though,

The FHA has rescinded a highly-controversial credit dispute rule that put an untold number of mortgage applications at risk with the government lender. Drafted in March to shore up its emergency fund, the rule forced potential homebuyers with FHA

Trulia today released the results of its latest American Dream survey, and it found that homeowner optimism has returned to the housing market in a major way. The survey sampled a large swath of the U.S. population, with nearly

Single-family homes sales in League City were up 13.7 percent in April from last year, and they’re part of a wide-ranging trend towards greater sales activity and economic growth in the Houston metropolitan area. According to the Houston Association

The last six months, housing affordability has been one of the few give-ins regarding housing. With record-low interest rates and competitively-priced homes, affordability is at its highest level in more than 40 years…or is it? A new study by

The Citizens’ Environmental Coalition presented its plan, ‘Visions for a Greener Houston Summit Proceedings,’ to city council members and the public Thursday, June 7. The report, presented at the city’s Green Building Resource Center, outlines short-term and long-term proposals

Privately-owned housing starts in May were up 28.5 percent from last year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In addition, building permits increased by both monthly and

We’ve got an early read on single-family home sales from the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR), and they’re great news for the Houston real estate market. According to a post on HAR’s website from Tom Plant, sales for May