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The housing market here in West Houston is like two different animals. A slow market with Days on Market stretching out up to 6 months for houses in more expensive neighborhoods like Cinco Ranch and Green Trails, and a busy m...
I have a listing in Parkway Village and to suggest a price I looked at not just the sol...
I'm doing an open house down in Cinco Ranch this Saturday so I thought I'd take a look at the price history of Cinco Ranch East of 99. The chart above...
Green Trails is a beautiful neighborhood in Southeast Katy area and it is zoned to great schools such as Nottingham Elementary and Taylor H.S. It also has fast and easy access to I-10 that is on the Houston side of most of the Kat...
Living in a noisy neighborhood can be painful. One house we lived in when we first moved to Houston was next to Grand Parkway before the flyover bridges were finished. Once the bridges were finished our back yard sw...
The rental market below $1500 still seems very busy, with lots of calls on listings and no sooner do I show a property it is rented. At the higher end of the market it seems a little slower, average days on the market is 59 days ve...
Pricing for sales, rentals and short term rentals all have the same thing in common: The market price depends on how many people are actively looking, and you can visualize that by imagining a pyramid, with the pointy tip being the...
I was listening to NPR in the car the other day and they had a story about the Sherpas of Nepal that guide people climbing Mount Everest. I had a flash of insight..."let me be your Real Estate Sherpa" as a more catchy ta...
The picture above is a chart of all of the sales in the Katy area, from hwy 6 to 1463, and from Clay Rd to the Seven Lakes area in the south. The dots are plotted at the final sales price and days on the market (DOM) at which&...
To help investor clients find the best houses that will rent well and have a better chance of giving a good return on investment, I've been screening houses based on the rents of nearby comps. I have no problem looking at house...
