Texas

In the latest example of how companies that control a significant portion of the home buying process can weave digital innovations throughout the customer experience, online real estate and mortgage company Redfin will implement electronic closing technology from Notarize.

After more than doubling local home starts in the last decade, don't expect Dallas-Fort Worth builders to increase construction by much in 2019.

North Texas home sales dropped in October — the third month in a row that preowned house purchases in the area were below year-ago levels.

Austin's record-breaking $250 million affordable housing bond appeared to be on its way to approval late Tuesday.

Texas is expected to be the tipping point in online closing adoption, and title companies predict that e-closings will soon be standard operating procedure.

A former instructor at the Purvis Real Estate Training Institute in Fort Worth, Texas. was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme that robbed investors of more than $1.2 million.

Amrock is calling for a new trial in its dispute with HouseCanary following a judge's denial of its motion to reverse an earlier decision in HouseCanary's favor.

Two Texas cities have landed at the top of a list of the country's hottest housing markets.

Thousands of homeowners in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago are headed out of town.

Average new-home prices increased in four major Texas markets in September, with prices edging up 0.7% to $357,364 in the Houston area, according to a new report by HomesUSA.com.

Strong third-quarter home sales in the Houston area put Texas on a path for another record year, according to a Texas Association of Realtors report.

Dallas-Fort Worth was the only major Texas market that saw a decline in third quarter home sales.

Flat home sales last month lowered the temperature a bit in the long-hot Central Texas housing market, according to the Austin Board of Realtors.

More than 20% of the houses listed for sale in the Dallas area have had at least one price cut in order to try and move the property.

Natural disasters are now the leading driver of lenders' foreclosure risk, with last year's hurricanes causing a rise in third-quarter filings in affected markets, according to Attom Data Solutions.

One in five new homes permitted in Houston in the year after Hurricane Harvey is in a flood plain — some on prairie developed for the first time after the storm — even as new rainfall data showed existing flood maps understate the risk posed by strengthening storms.

USAA will be eliminating 265 home sales and lending positions, but it already has offered nearly 100 of the affected workers different jobs within its mortgage unit.

Thirty states told the Council of Development Finance Agencies they issued mortgage revenue bonds in 2017 compared to only 18 that issued mortgage credit certificates.

The Dallas-Fort Worth home market retreated in August, with preowned home purchases down from a year ago and prices growing at a slower rate.

Houston-area home sales in August were up an eye-popping 37% over the same month last year, but there's good reason for the astonishing increase: Hurricane Harvey.