by Rich on September 22, 2011
Houston Home Sales Up The Chronicle on 09/21/11 reports Houston home sales up 33% in August over August 2010. Here are a couple of quotes from the 09/21/11 Chronicle, reporting Houston Home Sales Up. Now, I’m not a big fan of the Houston Chronicle. However, I do advertise open houses and new construction homes in it….it [...]
by Rich on November 22, 2010
Houston Heights Homes Sales Compared to Houston Metro Houston Home Sales Stay in Basement is lead of Chronicle story on Nov 16, 2010: Houston-area home sales plunged last month compared with a year earlier when a federal homebuyer tax credit helped boost activity in the housing market. October marked the fourth straight month of double-digit [...]
by Rich on April 19, 2010
Neighborhood Price Trends for Close in Neighborhoods 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 which came out 04/11/10. I look forward to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Rich on October 5, 2009
A Totally Chaotic Near North Real Estate Market! iTotal chaos is the only way to describe Houston’s Inner Loop & Near Nothside real estate market. 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, [...]