Archive for January, 2009

How Should Home Appreciation Be Calculated?

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Many times I have said that using the median or average home sale price to determine appreciation rates can be misleading at times depending on changes in consumer buying habits. Dr. Mark Dotzour who is the chief economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M has recently shown that he is in agreement. Below [...]

Houston 2008 Year End Real Estate Report

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The Houston housing market in December and November gave back much of the gains that had been seen over 2008, in property appreciation. But, still managed to post a positive number for appreciation of the average home sale price and did not see a decline in the median home sale price. Inventory at the end [...]

Today I am doing something a bit out of the ordinary for the Houston housing market blog. Normally I have focused solely on putting out market data, writing informative articles, or more recently, posting lists of foreclosures for the Houston metro area. All of these posts were made to provide information to my readers, but [...]

Houston Foreclosures Above 500000

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Hi, this is James Wheelock the author of Houston housing market. This will be the last post of our Houston foreclosure series. Below you will find a Google interactive map that is plotted with all the Houston foreclosures above 500000 listed by all real estate companies in the Houston metro area. These Houston foreclosure listings [...]

Houston Texas Foreclosures

This is post number eight of the Houston housing market’s Houston foreclosure series. You can find all the Houston foreclosure lstings between 400000 and 500000 in the Houston metro area below in the Google interactive map. This Houston Tx foreclosure search does not only present bank owned foreclosures it also lists pre-foreclosures and [...]

Foreclosures in Houston
Thank you for visiting Houston housing market’s Houston foreclosure listings series. This is post number seven listing all the Houston foreclosures between $350,000 and $400,000. You will find these Houston foreclosures in the Google interactive map below. This map is plotted with the first 20 Houston Texas foreclosures and will be updated [...]

Welcome, this is post six of a series covering every single Houston foreclosure. Today’s post is for all the Houston Texas foreclosures between 300000 and 350000. Below you will find a map plotted with the first 20 of all the Houston foreclosure listings between 300000 and 350000. You can narrow or widen your search criteria [...]

Thanks in large part to seller’s frustrations leading them to removing their properties from the housing market, the home inventory is down significantly in all price range categories. In addition to the large drop in total Houston homes inventory, it is noteworthy that the $80,000 and below price range saw an increase in total homes sales from last month, moving that price category further into the realm of a seller’s market. Total active single family homes listings plunged down almost 3,000 units, taking total single family homes inventory from 6.2 months to 5.8 months of total housing inventory. Despite the good news of the entire Houston housing markets move in the direction of stability, I expect that we will see a drop in the median and average home sale price for December, just as we saw for November.[...]

Houston Foreclosures

Today I am making the fifth post of our Houston foreclosure series. This post has a Google interactive map search tool with all the Houston, Tx foreclosures between $250,000 and $300,000. Once again just in case you have not been following this series and landed her from the search engines or via an outside [...]