View local data and download free local reports online.
Get your market information from a local source.
Find Out More
Accurate home pricing in a changing market is critical.
Request a free neighborhood market activity report online.
Learn about Houston culture and lifestyle
Information about activities, destinations, events, employment, government, community, recreation and more....
Find Out More
Learn about Texas agency
and know who is working for you.
Information about brokerage services
Find Out More
Sterling Residential, Realtors
Houston BBB Online Reliability Program Member.
Internet security and privacy issues are very important to Sterling Residential®, Realtors® (“Owner”), as they are to our Visitors. No personal information is collected for dissemination to 3rd parties, and the information collected will remain the property of Sterling Residential®, Realtors®.
Information collected from Visitors may consist of web site statistical information used to examine the performance, functions, and demand for Owner’s web site content & features. Web site statistical information is gathered each time you visit the web site by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), and this information is gathered in reports for use by the web site Owner in managing the assets and content of this web site.
Submitting personal or contact information is voluntary; however, some web site content may require Visitors to provide Owner with valid contact information (name, address, phone, fax, email, etc.) when requesting information, before accessing additional features or prior to receiving additional services or information. The Visitor’s information will be used in the course of Owner’s business to contact the Visitor in response to the Visitor’s request for information or services. No personal or contact information will be provided to 3rd parties and the information provided will remain the property of Sterling Residential®, Realtors®.
Owner’s web sites contain links to 3rd party web sites. Owner does not control the privacy policies of these 3rd party web sites. Visitors are urged to check the privacy policies of 3rd party web sites accessed through Owner’s 3rd party web site links.
SterlingResidential.Com is an Amazon Associate. Information you provide to Amazon.com is subject to Amazon’s terms of use and privacy policy and Visitors are encouraged to review these agreements on the Amazon.com website.
Sterling Residential®, Realtors® takes normal security precautions to protect the information of Visitors. However, internet security cannot be guaranteed by Owner, and Visitors agree to hold harmless the web site Owner for information gathered, copied, or otherwise fraudulently obtained from the web site Owner by unauthorized persons.
Sterling Residential®, Realtors® reserves the right to amend or change the privacy policy without notice to the web site visitors. Sterling Residential®, Realtors® recommends that web site Visitors regularly review the privacy policy for changes. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, please do not use or access Owner’s web sites.
Today’s Houston real estate asking prices are derived from local market conditions based on comparable sales prices paid by home buyers in a particular neighborhood. Despite recent sales volume declines, prices are holding steady across Houston. While that may not be true for all Houston area neighborhoods, there hasn’t been an overall 15% drop in Houston home values. The housing supply is growing — tending to favor home buyers — but it hasn’t increased enough to force home sellers into large double-digit price reductions.
A Houston Chronicle Real Estate discussion posted a few weeks ago asked if Realtors share blame for the mortgage crisis unwinding across the country. Citing dual-licensed Realtors (those holding real estate and mortgage brokers licenses) as part of the problem, some forum participants pointed to the potential conflict of interest between real estate and mortgage brokerage as a reason for the mortgage crisis, while others stated that dual-licensed Realtors couldn’t adequately perform both jobs as agent and mortgage broker. Both could be valid points — yet, the number of Realtors holding a both a real estate and mortgage license isn’t large enough to have contributed to the mortgage crisis in a significant way.
While most housing market indicators have been tracking negative for months, Houston’s median home price for existing single-family housing is positively buoyant despite steady declines in sale volumes in recent months — the median price increased 1.5% in June 2008 when compared to last year. Houston’s residential real estate housing market sales were lower again in June 2008 with a year-to-year sales decline of 15.1% — the slowest June sales volume since 2004. Nationally, sales were down 15.5%. Sales declines were across most property and price classes with the single largest declines in homes priced between $80,000 and $200,000. Pending sales were down over 20% indicating that sales declines will continue. Inventory supply and DOM are up almost 10% in year-to-year comparisons.