ShareAs a member of the Houston Association of Realtors I am able to share with you some good news. April Home Sales in Houston were brisk and mortgage rates are great. Here’s the latest from HAR. HOUSTON — (May 15, …
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Houston Home Sales Brisk
Posted 1 day ago byRenovation Mortgage
Posted 14 days ago byShareAccording to finanaical investment company Morgan Stanley about ninety-five percent of foreclosed homes need some type of renovation or rehab work done to them. With investors seeking to acquire rental properties through REO sales it’s important to be able to …
Home Sales Down Again
Posted 24 days ago byShareAccording to the Case-Shiller Home-Price Index home prices for the most part continued to call throughout the United States, only in a few markets was there any price appreciation. Most of that appreciation stems from real-estate investors purchasing investment properties …
Houston Real Estate Data
Posted 31 days ago byShareBeing a member of the Houston Association of Realtors allows us to get Mulitple Listing Service (MLS) data as soon as it’s posted to let you know the current condition of the Houston real estate market. It’s not only important …
Mortgage News Today
Posted 37 days ago byShareI’ve been saying it for months if not the last couple of years the mortgage and housing crisis is not over. There is so much “Shadow Inventory” being held on the books by the banks and mortgage serrvicing companies that housing …
Always Read the Revised Numbers!
Posted 53 days ago byShareThere is a great article from Zillow that shows why you should alway look at the revised numbers and not rely on the “Headline Number” that is purely an estimate. We’ve been saying for almost a year on this mortgage …
Houston Home Sales
Posted 59 days ago byShareHave you ever heard the saying, “Thank your lucky stars you live in Texas”? Well when it comes to real estate values those words ring true compared to much of the rest of the country. Houston Home Sales data was …
First-Time Home Market Heating-Up
Posted 78 days ago byShareBill Fisher of ratewatch.com gives us some good news on the purchase market front and the economy. This morning, the latest Pending Home Sale Report was released by the National Association of Realtors, which reported the highest index reading since …
Mortgage Market Update
Posted 171 days ago byShareHere is a quick weekly summary of the mortgage market for this week and what may affect prices in the mortgage market this week from our lending partner NYCB. It seems the mortgage market and mortgage rates will be dominated …
Mortgage America or Rental America
Posted 192 days ago byShareLately there has been a lot of talk about how the United States of America is transitioning from a country of home-owners with a mortgage to a nation of renters that are mortgage free. In fact Morgan Stanley recently released …