COLLEGE STATION (Real Estate Center) – The Texas economy gained 258,500 nonagricultural jobs from August 2012 to August 2013, an annual growth rate of 2.4 percent compared with 1.7 percent for [...]
HOUSTON (Houston Chronicle) – The supply of existing homes for sale in the area has fallen to its lowest level in 12 years, according to the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR). Last [...]
HOUSTON (Houston Chronicle) – Home sales and prices are hot in Houston. Single-family home sales were up 14.4 percent here in June — the highest in nearly five years, according to the Houston [...]
AUSTIN (Austin Business Journal) – According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), housing affordability is at an all-time high. NAR’s housing affordability index measured 206.1 in [...]
TEXAS (Real Estate Center, The Herald-Zeitung) – Despite rising foreclosure rates in the United States (now nearly 32 percent), the rate in Texas is down 14 percent since last year. Jim Gaines, [...]
