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 | 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...
by thematthewsteam | Sep 29, 2022 | Property Taxes
Q3 Houston Real Estate News Houston Real Estate is cooling off, with the sale of single-family homes dropping for the second month in a row. Normally this is unexpected and unwelcomed news for Realtors, but not the case this time. “The scorching pace of Houston...
by thematthewsteam | Sep 19, 2022 | Property Taxes
Houston Home Inventory At High Levels The purchase of a home, for most Americans, is the largest single purchase a person will make in their lifetime. Since residences are very personal, many homeowners forget they are investing in a market and like every financial...