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Alejandra Rodriguez
25 Sep 2026

In most Texas metros, the conversation about housing affordability centers on rising prices. In San Antonio, the pressure is coming from a different direction: pre-owned homes are sitting unsold while builders undercut them on price, financing, and condition, according to Katie Powers, a team lead and broker with the Lifestyles of San Antonio team. The ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
15 Sep 2026

When a home sits on the market for months, the instinct is almost always the same: cut the price. In San Antonio right now, where inventory is high and buyers have leverage, that instinct is costing sellers money. Many stale listings were never priced wrong in the first place, according to Janet Wingrove, team lead ...

The homes moving quickest in Houston right now are not the ones buyers pin to their vision boards. They are modest starter properties: three bedrooms, two bathrooms, located in the suburbs. Larger, more expensive homes are sitting longer. For first-time buyers holding out for the house they actually want to live in long term, that ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Sep 2026

A family calls a real estate agent looking to lease a property. They have strong credit scores, clean tax records, and enough cash to cover a double security deposit plus first month’s rent, roughly $8,000. What they don’t have is any idea they could buy a home instead. That scenario, described by Gisselle Maldonado, a ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
24 Sep 2026

The Austin housing market spent years as one of the hottest in the country. Now sellers accustomed to fielding dozens of offers are adjusting to a market where buyers have leverage and new construction is setting the terms. According to Laura Ivy Blessing, who leads the Blessed Life Group in Austin and has more than ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
24 Sep 2026

The Dallas-Fort Worth housing market is sorting transactions along a single axis: pricing accuracy. Properties listed at market value are moving in under two weeks across a wide range of price points, according to Katherine Hubbard, broker at DFW 1% Listings LLC. Properties listed above market value, often by sellers still anchored to the conditions ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
24 Sep 2026

The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has roughly four months of housing inventory, enough to tip conditions firmly in buyers’ favor after the seller-dominated stretch of 2022 and 2023. For first-time buyers, that shift has opened a window that did not exist two years ago: sellers willing to contribute to closing costs, combined with grant-based down payment ...

Eden Godinez
22 Sep 2026

In central Collin County, Texas, homes priced between $1.3 million and $1.6 million sold briskly during the 2020–2022 run-up. Now they linger on the market. The reason is not poor condition or weak marketing. The buyer who once dominated that price band has disappeared from both directions. When the Middle Disappears According to Sean Elliott, ...

Eden Godinez
21 Sep 2026

Investor-renovated homes near downtown San Antonio are sitting unsold for months. The problem isn’t poor renovations or bad pricing. Too many investors targeted the same neighborhoods at the same time. According to Janet Wingrove, team lead and co-founder of Empire Real Estate Team at Keller Williams Heritage, areas that once looked like strong gentrification opportunities ...

Eden Godinez
21 Sep 2026

Houston’s median sales price ranges from $324,000 to $342,000. These figures suggest a stable, affordable market compared to Austin, Dallas, or coastal metros. But according to Pedro Iznaga, Senior Agent at Redfin Corporation, those numbers hide a more complicated picture. The market doesn’t behave as one entity. It behaves as dozens of distinct micro-markets, each ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
09 Sep 2026

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, ...

Steve Marcinuk
09 Sep 2026

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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28 Jul 2026

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