Houston Real Estate News
Museum Park Houston Market Update – November
Below you will find some the most recent data on home sales and prices for the Museum Park section of Houston, Texas. If you are interested in receiving weekly Houston and Midtown real estate news updates, then sign up for…
Should you buy a Home in Houston During The Holidays?
As with most industries, Thanksgiving through December is a slow period in the real estate market. There are a lot of great distractions during the holiday season like shopping, Christmas Parties, and of course, the holidays themselves. This presents a…
What size home is ideal?
Check out this article from the Houston Chronicle’s Nancy Sarnoff. Per the article, Relocation.com recently conducted a survey and asked home buyers and owners, “what size home is ideal for you”. Here are the results: 48 percent said their ideal…
Midtown Houston Market Update – November 2010
Below you will find some the most recent data on home sales and prices for the Midtown section of Houston, Texas. If you are interested in receiving weekly Houston and Midtown real estate news updates, then sign up for our…
California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife?
Bring all of those jobs to Texas. We'll be happy to take'em off your hand California. As a third generation Houstonian and Texan, I am enjoying this transfer of economic power very much. No doubt Texas can do better in a lot of areas (namely higher education), but our libertarian leanings are servings us well. Urban development scholar and California resident Joel Kotkin attempts to give his state a wake-up call at NewGeography.com. Here's a few excerpts: In the future, historians may likely mark the 2010 midterm elections as the end of the California era and the beginning of the Texas one. In one stunning stroke, amid a national conservative tide, California voters essentially ratified a political and regulatory regime that has left much of the state unemployed and many others looking for the exits. California has drifted far away from the place that John Gunther described in 1946 as “the most spectacular and most diversified American state … so ripe, golden.” Instead of a role model, California has become a cautionary tale of mismanagement of what by all rights should be the country’s most prosperous big state. Its poverty rate is at least two points above the national average; its unemployment rate nearly three points above the national average. On Friday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was forced yet again to call an emergency session in order to deal with the state’s enormous budget problems....
Luxury Townhomes Make a Comeback in Museum Parkl
Like many other parts of Houston, new residential construction has slowed down over the past 2 years, but encouraging signs are evident with Lovett Homes’ newest development in the Museum District. This development could be a good fit for those…