At the tail end of the workweek, CNBC added its voice to the pack of observers who have decided that residential real estate is now less likely to suffer a sustained downdraft. Shortly after noon on Friday, CNBC released Emmy award-winner D...
Much of the media spent last week exploring the topic of Artificial Intelligence—with mixed opinions about whether it will turn out to be a boon or a curse to Mankind. Much of the discussion focused on AI-generated writing, which some stude...
Last Saturday, while media attention was largely fixed on preparations for a pleasantly warm-weather New Year’s eve in Times Square and predictions about the year to come, it was also the moment for backward-looking “roundups” of 2022...
More than a few Houston residents see the first days of January as annual invitations to invent (in the lexicon of self-help gurus) “a new you.” A concerted effort to follow through on a New Year’s resolution is one way to prevent fal...
Here’s hoping that your 2023 Houston New Year brings health, happiness, and prosperity your way—as well as renewed confidence that fewer headlines will have us doing double-takes. Whether or not you pine to reenact the America of yester...
The national press has fallen into the habit of treating almost every piece of news dealing with U.S. real estate as an all-too-predictable blow to the economy. Last week provided a welcome break in the pattern, as area residents who’ve b...
Some effective listing descriptions almost write themselves. This can happen when the property itself is unique in ways that elicit uniform reactions from visitors. “It’s so much bigger than I expected” is what you might hear about on...
Buying the right Houston house—one that not only appeals to our innate preferences but that will serve to satisfy all the practical living requirements that the future holds—is a challenge that all of us will face as we look toward our ...
Of all the changes that technology has brought to how Houston real estate transactions are conducted, one of the advances that many thought would literally transform almost everything arrived with the introduction of iBuying. The theory beh...
Creating the language that makes Houston listings sparkle is a skill that advances over time, but for even the most practiced, it’s at its best when it achieves a judicious mix of creativity and restraint. When the restraint part is momen...