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The Houston metro area keeps expanding outward, with thousands of new homes rising in communities west, north, and south of the city center. That growth is creating a specific problem for homeowners in the $450,000 to $700,000 range: their properties are competing against brand-new builds that come with lower prices, builder-subsidized mortgage rates, and covered ...
Houston’s reputation as an affordable alternative to coastal metros has drawn steady relocation traffic for years. But buyers treating the region as a single market, scanning listings across zip codes as though pricing logic transfers cleanly from one neighborhood to the next, are making decisions without the granularity the city demands. The same house on ...
Two homes list in Houston’s western suburbs in the same week. One is priced at $550,000. The other at $1.25 million. The cheaper home sits for 90 days. The expensive one sells over asking with multiple offers. That split, counterintuitive on its surface, is what Bryan Lillis, team lead at Luxe Realty Houston, describes as ...
The Houston suburbs have earned a reputation as one of the more stable residential markets in the country, insulated by a diverse employment base in energy, healthcare, and engineering. But in mid-2026, the picture is more nuanced than headline numbers suggest. Inventory is rising sharply, buyers are taking their time, and sellers are adjusting to ...
In a state where some housing markets have lurched from frenzy to slowdown and back again, the suburbs west of Houston have earned a reputation for staying relatively steady. But agents who work those markets every day say the stability is real, and also more fragile at the edges than the headline narrative suggests. The ...
Original reporting from other Texas markets on the KeyCrew network.
In most Texas housing markets right now, buyers have leverage they have not enjoyed in years. Inventory is up, prices are softening, and seller concessions – credits toward closing costs or interest-rate buydowns – have become a common negotiating tool. But in the luxury corridors west of Dallas, that playbook stops working above a certain ...
The pandemic-era self-storage construction boom created a distinctive opportunity in secondary and tertiary markets: a fresh supply of newer facilities whose performance depends closely on how well their scale aligns with the local population. According to Tom de Jong, Executive Vice President at Colliers, a pattern he has encountered repeatedly involves 100,000 square feet of ...
Most luxury submarkets in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex have felt the drag of elevated interest rates and longer days on market. Westlake, a small municipality west of Fort Worth where most homes sit on an acre or more, has not followed that pattern – and the reason has less to do with housing fundamentals than ...
The DFW suburbs have spent years absorbing population growth and new construction at a pace few metro areas can match. But in Burleson, a city in Johnson County about 20 minutes south of downtown Fort Worth, the market is splitting along a clear price line. Homes priced under $300,000 draw steady showing traffic, according to ...
Houston’s housing inventory has reached its highest level since 2012. That much supply usually gives buyers more bargaining power and opens doors for investors. But according to Kelvin Louie of KL Integrity Group, many Houston-area sellers bought during the pandemic and paid too much. Values in some areas have since dropped, and these sellers have ...
Houston’s fix-and-flip model thrived after the pandemic, but the numbers no longer add up. Investors want to buy distressed properties, meaning homes that need major repairs, and then renovate and resell them. But they are offering prices so far below what sellers will accept that deals rarely close. According to Tilah Spruel, founder of Lux ...
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Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...
The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...
The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...
In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...
For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...
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