Houston Real Estate News
Houston’s Harris County Has Six Months of Inventory. Galveston Has Two and a Half Years.
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 ...
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Buyers in Houston Suburbs Have More to Choose From Than Before, but Less Purchasing Power
Homebuyers in the western Houston suburbs are seeing more inventory than they’ve had in years, but their budgets aren’t stretching as far as they once did. With resale homes in the Katy area averaging 61 days on the mark...
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Texas Sellers Are Learning That Staging Isn’t Optional Anymore
Homeowners across San Antonio and much of Texas are discovering that what worked two years ago no longer applies. Inventory in the metro has climbed sharply, new listings have surged, active supply has pushed past 10,000...
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Subject-To Deals Are Growing in Texas, and the Risks Are Underestimated
A growing acquisition strategy among small real estate investors in Texas involves taking over someone else’s mortgage payment without ever assuming the loan itself. It is called a “subject-to” purchase, and insurance pr...
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Houston Buyers Are Walking Away From Deals Over Normal Inspection Findings
In a market where buyers finally have leverage – where inventory is at roughly 10-year highs, sellers are cutting prices, and concessions are available – a surprising number of Houston home purchases are falling apart be...
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Houston’s International Relocation Pipeline Has Slowed. The Rest of the Market Is Feeling It Too.
Houston built its residential market on a steady flow of international corporate transfers. The city’s concentration of global energy companies made it one of the most internationally diverse real estate markets in the c...
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The Most Common Insurance Mistakes Small Rental Property Investors Make in Texas and Beyond
Most real estate investors treat insurance as a closing requirement, a line item to check off before the deal funds. That approach holds up for one or two properties. It tends to break down once a portfolio crosses five,...
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Houston-Area Vacation Homes Are Flooding the Market With Nowhere to Go
Waterfront and vacation properties along Lake Conroe, Lake Livingston, and the Gulf Coast from Crystal Beach through Jamaica Beach are sitting in saturated inventory – and many owners who purchased during the recent boom...
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In Katy, Texas, Getting Pre-Approved for $350K Doesn’t Mean You Should Spend It
A lender tells you that you qualify for $350,000. You start browsing listings at that number. Within weeks, you are under contract on a home that stretches your monthly budget past the point of comfort. In the affordable...
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Why Houston Investors Are Ditching Airbnb for Room-by-Room Leases
Short-term rentals made small-scale landlording look easy for years. Buy a house, list it on Airbnb, collect nightly rates that dwarf a traditional lease payment. But in Houston, experienced brokers are now steering inve...
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Houston Buyers Are Moving to the Outer Ring for More Space and Less Flood Risk
The conventional wisdom about Houston real estate centers on its sprawling suburban subdivisions and energy-sector wealth. But in 2026, the market’s most active corridors aren’t in the established inner suburbs; they’re ...
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Houston’s Resale Market Tilts Toward Buyers as New Construction Gains Ground
Houston’s housing market sits in an unusual position among major U.S. metros. The fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country has maintained modest positive home price growth while cities like Austin and Dallas have ...
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In Northwest Houston, Resale Homes Compete Against Builder Incentives Most Sellers Can’t Match
The Northwest Houston resale market faces competitive pressure that has little to do with interest rates or buyer demand. New construction communities ringing the area offer aggressive buyer incentives, closing cost cove...
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In Katy and Cypress, Texas, New Construction Incentives Are Undercutting Resale Homes
Builders in the Houston suburbs of Katy and Cypress are offering incentive packages large enough to make new construction cheaper than comparable resale homes, a reversal that is forcing existing homeowners into concessi...
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The Foreclosure Wave Northwest Houston Expected Still Hasn’t Hit
For more than two years, market watchers in the greater Houston area have been bracing for a surge of foreclosures. The logic seemed sound: pandemic-era moratoriums expired, interest rates jumped, and homeowners who stre...
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Maturing Loans Are Pushing Texas Multifamily Assets to Sell Below Market
For much of 2023 and 2024, Texas multifamily operators were fighting a war of attrition; new supply flooded Sun Belt markets, concessions became standard practice, and occupancy rates slipped across the board. Now, as th...
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Corporate Relocations, Tight Supply, and 100-Day Listings: North Houston’s Divided 2026 Housing Market
The real estate headlines in mid-2026 paint a familiar picture: interest rates remain a drag on activity, affordability is stretched, and transaction volume is softening. But in the communities stretching across Montgome...
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In Houston’s Western Suburbs, New Construction Is Squeezing the Resale Market’s Middle
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 $7...
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Houston’s Real Estate Market Isn’t One Market. It’s Dozens.
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 l...
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Houston’s Sub-$500K Urban Market Favors Buyers for the First Time in Years
Housing markets across the U.S. are splitting into two distinct stories in 2026, with high-end demand holding steady while entry-level segments cool under mounting affordability pressure. Houston illustrates this nationa...
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Houston’s Luxury Homes Draw Bidding Wars While Mid-Range Listings Sit for Months
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...
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