Texas A&M University Real Estate Center

Changing Market Conditions Increasing Housing Inventory in Texas. Here’s How That’s a Plus

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / July 31, 2022 /

Here’s something that could ease the tensions of Dallas-Fort Worth real estate agents: Inventory is growing.

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Once Regarded as ‘Weird,’ Austin Is Making Gains in Luxury Home Sales

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / July 21, 2022 /

In the latest report from the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University, the Austin area is experiencing a surge in luxury home sales and slowly erasing the region’s reputation of being hip and bohemian.

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Texas’ Manufactured Housing Seeing Increase in New Orders, Sales Volume

By Marlin Weso / October 19, 2020 /

Back in junior high, I had a fun summer job painting manufactured homes across eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. Of course, a young teen can’t be trusted to paint a whole house. In reality, a relative had contracts with Jim Walters Homes to barnstorm the region and paint homes. My menial job was to paint…

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D-FW Residents Continue to Pursue Homeownership, and Other Reports and Studies

By Marlin Weso / October 19, 2020 /

The typical home value in September was $270,907, up 4.5 percent year over year, and 0.9 percent month over month, according to the Zillow Real Estate Market Report.

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New Single-Family Homes Show Best Increase Since 2006

By Marlin Weso / August 31, 2020 /

The good news about the boom in new and existing home sales in Dallas just keeps rolling in. It won’t last forever, of course, but let’s enjoy it while we have it. Sales of new single-family homes increased for the third consecutive month, rising to their highest level since 2006. Between June and July, sales…

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