October 27, 2008

Spring Texas Neighborhoods – Stone Forest

All summer long we have been out cruising Spring Texas neighborhoods, walking their trails, talking with their residents, and taking photos, photos, and more photos in order to be able to give you a “feel” for what it is like to call a particular neighborhood or subdivision “Home”. Today, we are introducing our new series […]

October 23, 2008

All Real Estate sites have the same listings – True or False?

FALSE. All real estate sites DO NOT have the same listings. In addition to real estate sites missing active home listings, their listing data contains OUTDATED PRICES and homes no longer on the market. Say it isn’t so Batman. Well, I am not batman but it is the TRUTH. A recent survey performed by WAV Group for Roost.com identified the inaccuracies […]

October 20, 2008

Spring Texas Neighborhoods profiles UPGRADED!!

Along with the announcement of the makeover to our Spring Texas real estate website, we promised to deliver additional enhancements. Today, we are making good on those promises with a relaunch of the Spring Texas Neighborhoods section. Our profiles of Spring Texas Neighborhoods has always been one of the most popular and most liked section […]

October 13, 2008

Spring Texas Real Estate website gets a makeover

With the help of our new friend, Jim Cronin, and his colleagues at the Real Estate Tomato, our Spring Texas real estate website received a MAJOR makeover. A mere cut here and a tuck there would not do. Instead we went all the way back to the drawing board and took a clean slate approach. Based upon the feedback from our […]

October 10, 2008

Spring TX Real Estate: Market Report September 2008

What’s going on with the Spring TX real estate market? Is it good, is it bad, is it time to sell, is it time to buy? Real estate is LOCAL and its fairing better in some cities than in others. The Long Beach CA real estate market is different than the Hoboken NJ real estate market which is different than […]

October 7, 2008

Night at the Pearl Fincher Museum

Last night, Tim Novak, Executive Director of the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, hosted Prudential Gary Greene, Realtors “Night at the Museum”. Approximately 30 of my fellow Realtors and myself took advantage of a wonderful opportunity to learn about the ONLY Fine Arts Museum outside of the Houston Museum District. The Pearl Fincher Museum […]

October 5, 2008

Fall in Spring Texas

Fall in Spring Texas sounds a little weird doesn’t it? But what should I expect when my city is named after a season. I grew up in the Midwest and Fall was one of my favorite seasons. I use to marvel in the beauty of the leaves as they changed colors, I enjoyed walking in the […]

October 2, 2008

FHA minimum down payment increase postponed to January 1, 2009

If you thought you missed out on the lower minimum down payment for FHA loans, don’t worry due to a postponement you still have time. The minimum down payment for FHA loans which was scheduled to increase from 3% to 3.5% on October 1, 2008 has been postponed. The revised effective date of the increase […]

October 1, 2008

Why I love underground power lines …..

Power lines …. Above ground or underground …. it’s not something I gave a lot of thought to. That is until recently. After Hurricane IKE blew through Houston and the Spring Texas area knocking out electrical service to 93% of CenterPoint energy’s customers, I had some time in the dark to ponder power and its […]

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