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Home Sale Trends

Houston Close-In Neighborhood Price Trends – Part 2

by Rich on April 19, 2010

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!See Part 1 of Houston Subdivision Price Trends where price trends of Houston Heights homes were covered. Considering buying or selling a Heights home? Check out the previous post. This data was taken from the yearly Houston Chronicle Subdivision price trends supplement [...]

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Houston Heights Home Price Trends & Surrounding 1950′s Neightborhoods

by Rich on April 15, 2010

The Houston Chronicle issued it’s yearly Subdivision Price Trends on 04/11/10. I extracted data for areas near the Heights, in table below. Don’t look too closely at the price trends if there are very few sales. Woodland Heights for example (where I live) shows a decline in price. What this really shows is that several [...]

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Houston Home Sales Show Gain…Or Do They?

by Rich on November 27, 2009

Houston Real Estate Market Enjoys Second Consecutive Month of Positive Home Sales Volume.  The headline above was quoted from a recent HAR.com press release. Big deal!  Those two months were the aftermath of hurricane Ike…they sucked.  We were all busy chasing Reliant Energy trucks down the street, begging to get power back on. Then we hunted tree trimmers [...]

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The State of Houston’s Near North Real Estate Market

by Rich on October 5, 2009

A totally chaotic housing market! is the only way to describe Houston’s Inner Loop. Sales volume is down ~20%, but that alone doesn’t begin to describe it. Is it a buyer’s market? That’s what headlines would have you believe. But no. Sales are down, but so is inventory. So, the months inventory is still rocking [...]

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