March 23, 2012

harris county tax assessed property values

Harris County home values drop further in 2012

The Harris County appraisal district has finished their assessment of residential home values and not the bill but the value will soon be arriving in your mailbox. How will your Spring Texas home fare? Will your home’s tax value be higher, lower, or stay the same? For the majority of Harris County homeowners the tax assessed value of their homes will […]

March 20, 2012

How long before the sellers respond?

When you submit an offer on a house in Spring Texas, how long does it take before the sellers respond? Depends on when you submit the offer and who the seller is. If the house is a Foreclosure, Short Sale, or Corporate Relocation, it is owned by a corporation. The people who make the decisions […]

March 17, 2012

Spring Texas Real Estate: Market Report February 2012

What’s going on in the Spring Texas Real Estate Market? Single family home sales increased through the roof. Average and median home prices remain stable. Active listings drop below 1,000. Increase in sales and a decrease in active listings push months of inventory lower. Months of Inventory – A decrease in active listings coupled with an increase in home sales as pushed […]

March 14, 2012

Garage Sales

It really doesn’t matter whether you call them Garage Sales or Yard Sales, they both represent an opportunity for you to purge your closets and sale unwanted items. But don’t go grabbing your markers to make your garage sale signs without first checking your subdivisions deed restrictions. As the deed restrictions of many Spring Texas subdivisions prohibit garage sales. In the […]

March 10, 2012

to to before listing your Spring TX home for sale

6 things to remove before listing your Spring Texas house

It happens at the same time each year. The Spring Texas real estate market heats up just as the weather heats up. So if this is the year you are planning on selling your Spring Texas house, it’s time to get your house ready to list. But where do you start? Start by removing these things from your […]

March 7, 2012

Knock, Knock … It’s the tax man

Has this situation ever happened to you? After hearing a knock on your front door, you get up to see who it is. But instead of finding a girl scout selling cookies on your front porch, you find an appraiser from the Harris County Appraisal District. After showing you his identification badge and introducing himself, the appraiser […]

March 4, 2012

D.R. Horton building in Cypress Forest Lakes

Since its beginnings in 2006, Cypress Forest Lakes has struggled to find the right builder with the right product at the right time. The first builder in Cypress Forest Lakes, a small gated community of 71 home sites in Spring Texas, was Meritage. Meritage built homes in 2006 – 2008. The next builder was Dunn & […]

March 1, 2012

You’re in contract but you receive a higher offer can you take it?

After sitting on the Spring Texas real estate market for many months, you finally received an offer on your home. After numerous back and forth negotiations, you have agreed to what you feel is a decent price. Now two days after your house went under contract, you’ve received a higher offer. Can you take the higher offer? […]

February 28, 2012

What’s in a name? – T.C. Jester

The story behind the names of the streets of Spring Texas. T.C. Jester is a main South – North street through Spring. It connects F.M. 1960 to F.M. 2920 and runs through the subdivisions of Olde Oaks, Terranova West, Spring Creek Oaks, and WindRose. T.C. Jester was named after T.C. Jester. He was a pastor at […]

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