Real Estate Market News

Texas Realtors Report: Most Sellers Know the Market But Overestimate Home Value

By CandysDirt / April 1, 2025 /

From Staff Reports Two-thirds of Texas Realtors said most sellers they worked with in 2024 had a moderate understanding of the real estate market, according to the first-ever Texas Homeselling Experience Report released by Texas Realtors. The report, which captures member insights on working with sellers, found that 20% of Realtors said most of their…

Black Homeownership Sees Gains, But Gaps Persist, NAR Report Finds

By CandysDirt / March 25, 2025 /

From Staff Reports The U.S. Black homeownership rate saw the largest year-over-year increase in 2023 among racial groups, yet it continues to lag significantly behind White homeownership, according to the National Association of Realtors’ 2025 Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America. The report provides insight into homeownership trends across racial and ethnic groups,…

Werewolves Of High-End Housing: You’ve Already Let ‘Em In

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 9, 2025 /

By Jonathan MillerSpecial Contributor There was a great Wall Street Journal piece (free link) on the decline in available lower priced Miami home sales. It’s the result of prices rising so quickly and a shift in the mix to larger more high-end new product flowing into the market. The high-end market seems better equipped to weather the current economic…

Collin County Association of Realtors Unveils New Name to Reflect Membership

By Shelby Skrhak / October 14, 2023 /

North Texas’ second-largest professional Realtor association now has a new name. The Collin County Association of Realtors rebranded last month to become the Collin County Area Realtors — a move they say will better reflect its changing member demographics. Collin County Association of Realtors was founded in 1957 as a non-profit organization that provides professional…

In North Texas, Housing Prices Are Down And Foreclosures Are on The Upswing

By CandysDirt / July 21, 2023 /

New data shows that, just as our meteoric rise in home values sent our nation’s real estate market topsy-turvy, so has the rapid cooling that the market has seen in the past several months. In new reports from ATTOM and MetroTex Association of Realtors, the number of foreclosure filings has increased while the average price…