Texas

A $740 million jury verdict against Amrock was thrown out by a Texas appeals court that said tech firm HouseCanary failed to prove the big title insurer stole its trade secrets to build a competing real estate analysis tool.

Houston-area home closings surged last week for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dallas-area home prices are expected to decline for the first time since the Great Recession.

The Austin, Texas, area housing market had been on a 10-year roll before the coronavirus pandemic. Several market indicators nosedived as the effects began to be felt in the market in late March and continuing into April.

Cited the current capital markets and economic environment as the reasons for pulling out of the transaction.

Sales of new homes in the Houston area flattened in April as the coronavirus caused a pause in activity, according to a new homes sales report from HomesUSA.com.

Austin-area home sales declined sharply in April as the fuller impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and local shelter-in-place orders left their mark on the housing market, new figures from the Austin Board of Realtors show.

San Antonio's housing market is slowing down amid the coronavirus pandemic, but prices are still rising.

Sales of single-family homes plunged 19% in April, ending a nine-month string of year-over-year gains as Houston-area buyers and sellers hunkered down despite real estate transactions being considered an essential part of the economy.

Some real estate agents say there are signs the local housing market has started to rebound since late March, when efforts to reduce the spread of the virus led to stay-at-home orders in Austin and elsewhere.

North Texas home sales slid in April as buyers sheltered in place from the pandemic.

Houston home sales plunged more than 20% in April from year-ago figures as sellers took properties off the market and buyers stayed home through the coronavirus-induced shutdown.

Houston real estate agent Tim Surratt decided late last week to hold his first open house since the coronavirus pandemic broke out.

Dallas-Fort Worth home prices have slightly declined in each of the last three quarters.

Dallas-area home prices were up just 2.5% in the latest national comparison, but the small year-over-year increase came in February before the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the market.

Many El Paso, Texas, homebuilders are opening model homes only for appointments, or in other ways limiting access to the homes, which for years have been their best selling tool. Home construction continues.

Home sales and prices in San Antonio kept rising in March, but a slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic may lie ahead.

North Texas housing starts and new home sales surged in the first quarter, but most of those gains came before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the area's economy.

North Texas home sales and prices continued to rise in March from a year earlier, but last month's home sales snapshot mostly reflects contracts signed in January and February, before the pandemic hit.

Social distancing, stay-home orders and a worsening economic crisis are upending Houston's housing market.