Redfin is rolling out its Direct Access home tours to 22 markets, including Houston the company announced Tuesday. 

Johnson Development Corp. President Larry Johnson discusses everything from his childhood on a farm on the windy plains of the Texas Panhandle to his latest development, the 1,300-acre Harvest Green community in Richmond, Texas.

The first week of October saw a drop in new listings, falling 18.4% from last week’s fleeting inventory surge.

The new program, DepositLink Pay, allows a broker, agent or title company to direct buyers and renters to a customized URL or a “Pay” button online to make digital earnest-money deposits and rental payments with no cost to brokers, agents or companies. 

The user of the app can monitor information about their home and local market conditions, store important documents, generate estimates for home repairs and find a local contractor for more than 1,000 different home-service categories. 

Mortgage rates rose quickly last week. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 3.01%, up 0.13% from the week prior.

Expect a stable housing market over the next five years — despite the expiration of COVID-era protections — says a new Zillow report.

Open the doors, and there are all the prospective buyers! This enchanting Westernville, NY home was restored and rebuilt to pay historic homage to the church it once was.

Statewide brokerage firm Compass announced the opening of two new office locations, in Houston Heights and Katy, to accommodate the company’s rapid growth throughout Texas.

Atop Murray’s Mountain in Emporium, PA is a pilot’s fantasy: a fly-in ranch featuring a 1,700-foot airport runway! The unusual property type has an official right of way to the nearby airstrip.

Houston’s housing inventory appears to be on a slight rebound, as new listings rose 1.5% during the last week of September, breaking a three-week run of declines.

All four geographic regions saw increases, led by the Midwest, which clocked a 10.4% rise from July, and the South, where sales rose 8.6%. Pending transactions rose 7.2% in the West and 4.6% in the North.

Property values continue to rise and those looking to downsize can make the most of the current market highs, but how much you can save by downsizing can vary significantly depending on where you live.

A new report shows the market cooled in August, at least in terms of the number of prospective buyers looking at homes.

The 10-city composite index rose 1.4% on a monthly basis and 19.1% on a yearly basis, while the 20-city composite gained 1.5% monthly and 19.9% annually. 

The Low-Income First Time Homebuyers Act (LIFT) establishes a program to sponsor 20-year mortgages that would build equity at twice the rate of a conventional 30-year mortgage.