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Understanding closing costs   By Stephen Fritz, Realtor 832-483-1839 www.BuysellHoustonhomes.com www.longpointwoods.com Everyone knows that in most cases you'll need at least a small down payment to purchase a home -- but that's not all. You'll also need to come to the transaction with money for ...

Houston real estate still recovering from Ike   By Stephen Fritz, Realtor 832-483-1839 www.BuysellHoustonhomes.com www.longpointwoods.com The Houston housing market continued to feel the effects of the troubled national economy in October and residual business interruptions caused by Hurricane Ik...

By Stephen Fritz, Realtor 832-483-1839 www.BuysellHoustonhomes.com www.longpointwoods.com Real estate ranks third in Texas' GDP   Real estate is the third most important private industry in Texas, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The real estate industry acc...

Texas Realtors lobby for property tax relief   Property taxes in Texas nearly quadrupled between 1986 and 2006. You may think population growth and inflation had something to do with that, and you'd be right. But inflation and people moving to Texas account for only about half of that increase. T...

    HOUSTON (Houston Business Journal) - The Bayou City is among the nation's strongest growth centers, according to a new report from New York-based economic research firm IHS Global Insight."We still see Houston faring better than a lot of other metropolitan areas, but the outlook has been clou...