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June 15, 2010

Spring Texas Real Estate: Market Report May 2010

What’s going on with the,  Spring Texas Real Estate Market?  The expiration of the federal home buyers tax credits generated a 27% increase in May’s sales versus the prior year.  The expiration of the tax credits also impacted the pending sales but in the opposite direction with a 11% decrease.  Active Listings are up 15% over the prior […]
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June 13, 2010

When are you in contract?

Our Spring Texas real estate contracts have many dates listed in them with the most important date of them all being the date of the contract itself.  The contract date (a.k.a. effective date) is the starting point for all the other actions in the contract that are specified to be done in X days.  The contract […]
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June 11, 2010

Road construction

Have you ever driven by a massive hill of dirt and wondered what’s going on? Or have you been wondering if someone besides you believes that Kuykendahl north of FM 2920 needs to be expanded? A good place to find the answers to your Spring Texas construction questions is at the Harris County Precinct 4 website.  Click […]
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June 9, 2010

Automatic email notifications and missed opportunities

Over 90% of  home buyers are searching for Spring Texas homes for sale on the Internet.  Ninety percent of home buyers is a powerful number. But home buyers are doing much more than just searching for homes on the Internet.  They are also looking at photos, mapping locations, viewing virtual tours, viewing YouTube videos, and setting up […]
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June 5, 2010

Flood Insurance – Wise purchase or a waste of money?

Once again, hurricane season has arrived.  Hopefully, we will have another calm year like 2009 and not another year like 2008 when Hurricane IKE came barreling through the Spring Texas area.  If your house is located in the 100-year flood plain and you have a mortgage, your lender requires you to have flood insurance.  But what […]
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May 31, 2010

Is your home’s listing on page 1 or page 200 of Google?

How do buyers find Spring Texas real estate?  They Google.  When it comes to search there is none more powerful. When home buyers are googling moving to Spring Texas, Spring Texas subdivisions, blogs on Spring Texas real estate or a home’s pysical address what will they find?  Will it be your home they find or a home […]
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May 28, 2010
Lakes of Cypress Forest

Why does it cost more to live in a gated community?

Why does it cost more tods live in a gated community in Spring Texas and is it worth it?  The first part of the question I can answer for you.  Whether it’s worth the extra cost is one of personal opinion. We have several gated communities in Spring Texas including Estates at Creek Ends, Spring Lakes, Lakes of Cypress Forest, […]
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May 24, 2010

Realtor.com iPhone APP and your listing

Did you know that since its launch in 2007 over 200 million iPhones have been sold?  What does the millions of iPhone users have to do with the listing of your Spring Texas house?  A lot. The percentage of home buyers using the Internet to search for Spring Texas homes for sale has been steadily increasing over the years.  According to […]
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