Eddie Weir

08/27/2026

We didn't "adjust" anything. We cut the price. 😄

(no offense to my real estate agent peers, but I always smile when I see a listing saying 'price adjustment'..secret is out, you just cut the price!)

19851 Quarry Stone Lane in Grand Mission Estates is now $459,000.

Here's the honest version: this is a genuinely good, no, its a GREAT house that hasn't found its buyer yet, so we moved the number. That's it. No spin, no "strategic repositioning."

At $459,000 you're at about $154 a square foot for:

• 2,973 square feet — all on ONE level. A true single-story this close to 3,000 sf is hard to find out here.
• 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, dedicated office, formal dining, island kitchen
• 2016 Coventry build with four-sided brick — not just a brick front
• Domed rotunda entry, vaulted ceilings, hardwoods, plantation shutters
• Oversized corner lot with real room for a pool, a garden, a playset, or all three
• Covered patio, with Westpark Tollway and the Grand Parkway right there

If you walked this one a few weeks ago and the price was the only thing holding you back — look again. And if you've been waiting on a one-story with actual square footage behind it, this is the one to see in person.

Photos, video tour, and floor plan: https://eddieweir.com/19851-quarry-stone-lane/

Call or text me — 346-321-4422

Eddie Weir, REALTOR®, ABR, LUXE
eddieweir.com
REMAX Signature

08/26/2026

📉 45.4% of Houston homes on the market have now cut their asking price. Five straight weeks climbing.

But that's not the story this week.

For the past month I've been telling people this market was splitting in two — a soft outer ring, a tight core, drifting apart.

This week the numbers did the opposite of what I expected. 🤔

Two sub-markets actually **improved**. And they're the two I would have bet against — the softest corners of the metro all month long.

Six others went the other way, including one area that had been holding a line all summer. Until now.

Here's what actually matters for you 👇

That 45.4% is an average of eight very different Houston markets. The gap between the softest and the firmest is wide enough that your ZIP code is almost certainly not the average. 📍

If you're thinking about selling this fall, that gap is the whole ballgame — you price against your own street, not the headline.

All eight sub-markets broken out, plus three homes worth a look, in this week's Weekly Walkthrough. Link below 👇

https://mailchi.mp/eddieweir/houston-submarket-gap-narrows-august-2026

🏠 Data per HAR MLS · Greater Houston 9-county metro, single-family

08/19/2026

Some news I've been sitting on: I'm now a RamseyTrusted® pro, serving the Greater Houston area as a referral agent.

If you follow Ramsey at all, you know they don't hand this out. The vetting is genuinely thorough — they dig into your track record, how you actually treat people, and whether the way you run your business lines up with what they teach families about money.

What changes for you: nothing. Same phone number, same person picking it up.

Also in this week's Weekly Walkthrough — I rebuilt the metro into eight sub-markets so every single-family listing in the MLS lands in one of them. Katy, the Inner Loop, the Galleria and the whole coast were missing from the old map. The spread is wider than the headline number lets on: inside the Loop, 34.6% of what's for sale has already cut its price. Out in Fort Bend, 49.0%. Same city, same week, fourteen points apart.

Ramsey doesn't hand this out — the vetting is thorough and the standard holds on every referral. Plus this week's Houston read: 45.1% of listings have now cut their price, and the metro splits eight ways, from 34.6% inside the Loop to 49.0% in Fort Bend. Data per HAR MLS.

08/14/2026

We got this house rented three times. It only leased once.🤔

Michael is a first time investor who came to me through another investor — friend of a friend, out of state, watching a brand-new four-bedroom in Huffman from about a thousand miles away. Nobody had ever slept in it. Brick still clean. Cul-de-sac lot near Lake Houston and the Grand Parkway.

I took the listing over this summer. The year before, that same house — never occupied, priced under market — sat close to 90 days before it rented, and then only for six months. So by spring it was heading straight back on the market. Michael had used a large national Property Management company to list AND manage the home, I won't be naming them. While they may or may not do a decent job of managing the property, they do a terrible job of listing and marketing their properties...not their wheelhouse.

Here's what most people miss about rentals: getting a property listed, marketed and getting it 'renting' and managing that process, are two different jobs, and only one of them has anybody's name on it. The listing goes live and that gets treated as the finish line. But somebody still has to show the house. And if the only windows on offer are Monday through Friday, eight to five, you have quietly eliminated most of the people who would rent it. They're at work. That's the whole reason they can afford your house.

Meanwhile the owner covers a mortgage on an empty house every month it sits. That's exactly how you end up signing a six-month lease you never wanted.

So before we relisted, I helped Michael bring in Jim, Broker/Owner of Trusted Property Management Solutions. Jim gets it. He doesn't need to own every piece of it — he told me, you run the listing and the marketing, I'll run screening and management. Competent, easygoing, realistic, and an actual human being instead of a call queue. That partnership is the reason the rest of this worked at all.

Then we got unlucky. Twice.

About three weeks in, an applicant paid for the application and came back fully approved — background, credit, income, all of it. Then, right before the deposit, some things shifted in their life and they needed to wait. Totally understandable. Fine.

Nine days later, another applicant. Paid, applied, fully approved again. And right before the deposit, decided they'd rather be a few miles closer to work.

Nothing wrong with the house. Both of them said so, unprompted. Twice, from the one-yard line. In fifteen years I've never had that happen back to back.

We ended up a little over 50 days on market, and I won't pretend that stretch felt good. Michael is a thousand miles away. Every week without news, he's just sitting there wondering what's happening to his house in Texas.

Then the third applicant signed. Sixteen-month lease. Not six. Long enough that Michael isn't doing any of this again next spring.

For context: a comparable home in the same neighborhood, listed under the same old arrangement, ran right around 100 days this year. Same as the year before.

And that's the part I actually want you to catch. The two applicants who walked weren't the failure — they were the proof. Two fully qualified people, approved and ready to sign, inside the first three weeks, on a house that used to take three months to move. The marketing was never the problem after that. We just needed the third one to show up.

A lease is often as much work as a sale, sometimes more, for a fraction of the check. I do them anyway, because I'd rather be in my clients' corner every time they touch real estate — not just the day they buy.

Congratulations, Michael. 🔑

Eddie Weir, REALTOR®, ABR, LUXE
RE/MAX Signature
📞 832-343-8383 | EddieWeir.com

08/12/2026

Sharing this week's newsletter 📬

A few things in it:

🏷️ Almost half the homes for sale in Houston are now asking less than they did on day one. Yes, half. 😖

⏱️ And yet they're still selling in 49 days at almost full price. Both are true. The reason is kind of fascinating.

👀 One I'd tour this week is listed at $101 a foot in an area running $171. There's a catch — I explain it.

⛵ The Tall Ship ELISSA sails home to Galveston Saturday and they're asking folks to bring homemade welcome signs. Go stand on that pier.

Two-minute read 👇

That's 16,550 of 37,218 homes on the market, median cut 4.5% — 279 more than last week, and the share has climbed three weeks running. Meanwhile homes that sell are still averaging 49 days at 97.6% of list. This week's issue breaks it down across five Houston sub-markets, with 13-month trend lines...

08/08/2026

The best offer I wrote for Carl was on a house he didn't buy.

Not this one — a different house, weeks before this one ever hit the market. He liked it. The seller countered at a fair number. Everything pointed to yes. I told him to walk away.

Here's why. Carl wasn't shopping for a neighborhood, he was shopping for a street. Close friends of his lived a few blocks into one specific pocket of Fall Creek, and that was the whole reason for the move. Not square footage. Not a zip code. Being near his people.📍

Narrow the map that much and the search gets harder, not easier. You're not choosing from hundreds of homes anymore — you're waiting on a handful. Which makes the pressure to take whatever's available enormous.

So when Carl told me that fair-priced house just didn't feel right, we let it go. Because "good enough" on a forever home isn't a compromise you live with for a year. It's a driveway you pull into for the next thirty.

Then we waited ten days on a Coming Soon in the same pocket. Walked it the morning it opened. It wasn't close.

Two swings, two misses, in an area with almost nothing left, and what was, was all going under contract in the first week, so timing was a real pressure.

Then this one came on, and we were the first showing on the first day. It had some bumps and bruises. It was also a short sale — where the seller's lender has to approve the sale, not just the seller — and we negotiated a deal that came in better than the appraised value, by a solid amount. 💪

Here's the honest tradeoff, since most people never get it explained: a short sale doesn't really add steps for the buyer. It adds waiting. The lender sets the pace, and these can run up to 90 days. If you need to be in a home in 30, this is not your deal. Carl could be patient — he still had his current home — and that patience is exactly what bought the terms. Ours closed in 57 days.

Yesterday he got the keys.

Funny how it worked out. Of the three houses, the one he bought was the one with the flaws. Not the prettiest. Not the easiest contract. But it's the one he never has to leave — two streets from the friends who made him want to be here in the first place.❤️

Congratulations, Carl. Welcome home. 🔑

Eddie Weir, REALTOR®, ABR, LUXE | RE/MAX Signature
DM/Text - 832-343-8383

07/29/2026

Something I keep running into with Houston sellers right now:

43% of the homes on the market here have already cut their asking price. That's 16,044 homes, median cut 4.6%.

Nationally, that number is closer to 36%. Houston sellers are adjusting faster than the rest of the country is.

But the metro number hides the real story.

Out in Baytown, Crosby and New Caney, almost half of all listings have cut — 49%.

Down in Pearland and Manvel, it's 40%.

Same week, same market, nine points apart. If you're thinking about listing this fall, which side of that spread you're on matters more than the headline does.

👇 Full breakdown in this week's issue — five sub-markets, neighborhood by neighborhood.

Want it Wednesday mornings? There's a Subscribe button at the top of the page, and every past issue is right next to it.

That's 16,044 homes, median cut 4.6%. Nationally the number runs closer to 36%, so Houston sellers are adjusting faster than the rest of the country. This week's issue breaks the metro into five sub-markets, neighborhood by neighborhood. Data per HAR MLS.

07/07/2026

✨ JUST LISTED — 19851 Quarry Stone Ln, Richmond, TX ✨

Take the 60-second tour. 👀 This single-story stunner in Grand Mission Estates lives large: a domed rotunda entry, soaring ceilings, plantation shutters throughout, and an island kitchen built for hosting — all on a rare oversized corner lot.

🏡 4 bedrooms | 3.5 baths | dedicated home office | 2,973 sq ft | 1 story

🌿 Oversized corner lot with a covered patio and room to make a backyard pool a reality

🏊 Resort-style community: lakes & trails, multiple pools, waterslides, splash pad & playgrounds

📍 Minutes to Westpark Tollway, the Grand Parkway, H-E-B, and top-rated Fort Bend ISD schools

Homes with this much space AND this location don't sit long. Come see it before it's officially on the market.

🔗 Full photos, details & floor plan: 19851quarrystonelane.com

📲 Questions or want a private showing? Message me or call/text Eddie Weir, REALTOR®
REMAX Signature - (832)-343-8383.

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07/06/2026

Now active: 19851 Quarry Stone Lane in Richmond’s Grand Mission Estates.

This rare single-story Coventry home offers nearly 3,000 square feet on one level, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, four-sided brick, vaulted interiors, hardwood floors, a domed rotunda entry, and an oversized corner lot in a master-planned community.

The dedicated property page includes the video tour, full gallery, floor plan, and listing details. Private showings are available now.

Eddie Weir, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Signature
832-343-8383
[email protected]

Dedicated property website for 19851 Quarry Stone Lane in Richmond, TX.

07/01/2026

Selling a home is a project. Most people don't realize that until they're staring down a to-do list a mile long.

Lawn, deep clean, repairs, the dozen little things that have to happen before a sign ever hits the yard — that's the part that actually determines how fast a home sells and for how much. It's also the part I handle for you.

I keep a dedicated team on call, so when something needs doing, I can get the right person out there fast:

🌳 Landscaping
📦 Full clean-out services
🧹 Detail cleaning
🏠 Roofing
👀 and more!

On my most recent Richmond listing, my client had to move out of state and needed all of it coordinated remotely. We ran the whole thing start to finish. We even moved a piano.🎹

That's what full service actually means: you tell me what you need, I line up the right people and manage every detail so you don't have to.

👉 Thinking about selling anywhere in the Greater Houston area? Call/DM or text (832) 343-8383 for a free walk-through — I'll build you a plan to get it market-ready and connect you with the right people to get it done. No pressure.

Eddie Weir, REALTOR® | RE/MAX Signature
Free Home Valuation: https://homes.eddieweir.com/idx/homevaluation