Number Of Foreclosures Expands In Harris County But That May Not Be All Bad

4/20/2010-Houston housing market news:
As part of the Houston housing market Harris County is the largest and most populated county in the Houston metro area. According to Foreclosure Information and Listing Service, Harris County posted 1,180 properties as foreclosures in April of 2010. This is a 6.2% increase from March of 2010. Four the first four [...]

Harris County Foreclosure Report For March 2010

4/20/2010-Houston housing market news: As part of the Houston housing market Harris County is the largest and most populated county in the Houston metro area. According to Foreclosure Information and Listing Service, Harris County posted 1,180 properties as foreclosures in April of 2010. This is a 6.2% increase from March of 2010. Four the first [...]

Houston Housing Market Home Values Avoid Declines In 2009

4/14/2010-Houston housing market news: Despite a credit crisis, the worst unemployment level in Houston since 9/11/2001, a high mortgage default rate, record numbers of foreclosures across the nation, the Houston housing market managed to have average Houston home values remain stable with no across the board price declines during 2009.
According to the Houston Chronicle’s annual [...]

Lakeland Heights A Northwest Master Planned Community

Lakeland Heights Restarted

2/28/2010 – Houston Housing Market News: The Lakeland Heights, a neighborhood meant to emulate some of Houston’s most popular, long standing neighborhoods like the Houston Heights, West University Place, and Southside Place, has been restarted. Peter Houghton said home sales in the community were up 30 percent for the first seven weeks of [...]

Houston Community Development Block Grants Halted

Houston Texas Down Payment Assistance Program Put On Hold

2/28/2010 – Houston Housing Market News: Community Development Block Grants for the city’s Hurricane Dolly-Ike Disaster Relief Down Payment Assistance program has been put on what city officials hope is temporary hold. This hiccup comes about because of slow reimbursement from the state, leading to a 9.2 [...]

Highland Tower Highrise Condo To Finish Construction In April

2/22/2010 – Houston Housing Market News: Highland Tower a luxury highrise Condo project located on Bancroft Lane between San Felipe and Westheimer very close to the Highland Village Shopping Center to be completed soon. With the first residents scheduled to move in, in April.
The building is able to brag being the only Houston residential highrise [...]

Harris County Buys Foreclosures For First Time Home Buyers

2/15/2010-Houston Housing Market News-The Harris County Community Services Department has officially launched the H.O.M.E. (Home Ownership Made Easy) program.
Through the program, Harris County has recently purchased more than 40 foreclosed homes, offering them to qualified first-time buyers at greatly discounted prices.
While many of those homes have either sold or have pending offers, Harris County Community [...]