Texas real estate

Title Tip: Real Estate Industry Gets Little Attention During 2021 Legislative Session

By Lydia Blair / August 24, 2021 /

Real estate topics took a back seat to big issues like the pandemic and power grid failures in 2021 with the Texas Legislature. Of the 3,800 bills enacted into law, real estate still got a little attention.  Some of the welcome changes coming next week are due to lobbying efforts from the Texas Association of…

Texas Has Some of the Nation’s Youngest Homeowners

By Tommy Cummings / August 24, 2021 /

In a recent report, mortgage company Lending Tree has determined the average homeowners is between 51 and 52 years old.

Looking For Land? So is Everyone Else, Economist Says

By CandysDirt / July 12, 2021 /

From Staff Reports “A feverish demand for land, accompanied by a dearth of listings for sale, propelled Texas prices up a remarkable 16.29  percent in the second quarter,” said Dr. Charles Gilliland, the land expert for the Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) at Texas A&M University.  “The state’s land markets today are among the…

Seth Fowler: Is Texas Becoming the New California?

By Seth Fowler / March 30, 2021 /

No, this is not going to be about the Lone Star State turning “purple,” mask mandates, environmental views, masses of transplants moving away from one state to the other, or famous actors as governors (although if Matthew McConaughey ran for governor of Texas we’d have the coolest governor by a mile). This is now the…

Dallas-Fort Worth Luxury Home Sales Increased 20.1 Percent Over The Last Year

By CandysDirt / December 18, 2020 /

From Staff Reports This story has been updated with corrected figures from Texas Realtors. In Texas, luxury real estate is as big of a market as the state is sizable, but for the purposes of statistics and all that, let’s say that luxury homes in the Lone Star State are those priced at $1 million…