by thematthewsteam | Jan 29, 2023 | Property Taxes
Interest Rates and How They Affect the Houston Housing Market Mortgage rates have been in real estate headlines for a long time. The mortgage rate was lower than 5% for about ten years and under 3% for a year. Now the headlines focus on the recent sharp and incredibly...
by thematthewsteam | Jan 23, 2023 | Home Buyers
How did the Houston real estate market fare in the last months of 2022? Let’s recap the last few years to gain perspective. When 2020 began, the economy was very strong, and the mortgage rate was low; to begin with, the Houston real estate market was moving at a brisk...
by thematthewsteam | Dec 29, 2022 | Property Taxes, Uncategorized
4 Factors that Affect Your Mortgage Rate When the Federal Reserve Board is the agency with the authority to regulate monetary policy. When the Fed determined that the rise in inflation in 2021 was not “transitory,” it began to raise the prime rate to curtail...
by thematthewsteam | Dec 13, 2022 | Property Taxes
Home Prices in Houston: What to Expect A popular saying is purported to be both a curse and a blessing: “May you live in interesting times.” The things that make life “interesting” are often both stressful and beneficial in random ways. The current real estate market...
by thematthewsteam | Nov 7, 2022 | Property Taxes
Watching the Real Estate Market With real estate volatility, plenty of people have been sidelined, waiting and watching to see what will happen next. During nearly two years of record-low mortgage interest rates, it spurred a tremendous real estate buying spree. Now...