Texas

Dallas-Fort Worth home sales and construction totals are expected to rise only modestly in 2020, but the expected increases could still be enough to push area home numbers to new highs.

Houston's feverish housing market is poised for another record year as low mortgage rates, population growth and a relatively healthy economy fuel sales throughout the region.

Dallas-area home prices were up 3% in the latest nationwide comparison — the greatest gain in six months.

Central Texas could be on pace for a ninth straight year of record-setting home sales, according to new data from the Austin Board of Realtors.

Recent increases in Dallas-Fort Worth home sales were welcome after a slowdown earlier this year.

Houston held its spot as the No. 2 market for new home starts in the third quarter, according to a new report from Metrostudy.

The Dallas company said it should be able to avoid restating past financial results. It also reported higher quarterly earnings helped by increased mortgage activity.

Dallas-area home prices were up 2.8% from a year ago in the latest nationwide comparison.

There are many ways to mark the economic progress since the Great Recession: over 100 months of job gains, record low unemployment and a long bull run on Wall Street.

While more than a dozen local residential districts have had fewer home purchases this year, many Dallas-area neighborhoods are seeing a rise in purchases as home loan interest rates have fallen.

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Florida courts have held that a home seller must disclose anything about the property that could have a "substantial impact" on its value, but it's unclear if that ruling could apply or has ever been applied to flood hazards.

Home sales and the median sales price in Central Texas hit all-time highs for any September on record, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

Houston-area home sales increased nearly 10% in September from a year ago as buyers closed on 7,035 single-family homes, the bulk of which sold for between $150,000 and $500,000.

Lower mortgage rates prompted Dallas-Fort Worth builders to ramp up home starts in the third quarter.

Dallas-Fort Worth office leasing dipped in the third quarter, but year-to-date totals are still ahead of where they were in 2018.

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Still overvalued — that's the latest assessment of the Dallas housing market by one of Wall Street's big ratings firms.

As the summer home-selling season comes to a close, the number of houses sold and the median price of those sales hit all-time highs for any August on record, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

Dallas-area home price gains continued to lag national increases in the latest housing market update.