Donna Norris, Realtor

04/22/2026

Sooo many great tips here!

04/09/2026

HOUSTON HOUSING MARKET LOOKS STEADY
As the spring housing market begins to bloom, the Greater Houston area is showing signs of balance and stability despite ongoing economic uncertainty.

According to the Houston Association of Realtors' March 2026 Housing Market Update, single-family HOME SALES rose 3.7% year over year, with 7,644 homes sold compared to 7,369 last year. Pending sales were up 12.8%, a sign of continued buyer demand as the spring homebuying season gets underway.

HOME PRICES eased slightly in March. The average home price declined 1.2% to $420,510, while the median price edged down 1.5% to $330,000. At the same time, homes spent a little more time on the market, with Days on Market increasing to 67 days compared to 62 days a year ago.

04/09/2026

Well priced in a desirable close-in island community - just in time for summer!

For Sale: 7312 Seawall Blvd #124, Galveston, TX 77551 ∙ $189,000 ∙ 665 Sqft, 1 bed, 1 full bath, Condominium ∙ View more.

03/13/2026

GLOBAL TENSIONS RAISE MORTGAGE RATES

The average 30-year mortgage rate rose again this week to 6.11% per Freddie Mac (and the 15-year to 5.5%) on market volatility which is pushing borrowing costs higher as the spring homebuying season begins. This reflects ongoing bond market jitters over the war with Iran.

The average rate is now back to where it was 5 weeks ago. Just 2 weeks ago, it touched its lowest level in 3-1/2 years. Meanwhile, borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners refinancing their home loans, also rose this week. That average rate rose to 5.5% from 5.43% last week.

Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, from bond market investors’ expectations for the national economy and inflation, to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy decisions, as well as in response to events impacting the global economy. This being said, mortgage rates generally follow the trajectory of the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans.

The 10-year Treasury yield was at 4.24% at midday Thursday, up from around 4.13% a week ago.

01/22/2026

Pending Home Sales Fell 9.3% Nationally in December

According to the National Asdociation of Realtors’ Pending Home Sales Index, pending home sales in December fell 9.3% month over month to 71.8 and were down 3.0% year over year.

Month-over-month pending sales declined across all four regions, while year-over-year sales rose in the South but fell in the Northeast, Midwest, and West.

Homes also stayed on the market longer in December, averaging 39 days, compared with 35 days in December 2024.

Home values in Texas fell 2.45% in 2025, the largest drop in 14 years.

01/21/2026

This one’s for family, Realtors, and friends up north!

09/23/2025

STRONG BUYERS MARKET THIS SUMMER

According to the latest Redfin report, there were 35.2% more home sellers than buyers in the U.S. housing market in August — about 505,915 more sellers in total.

The only time sellers outnumbered buyers by a larger margin was June 2025, when the gap hit 36.3%. In other words, this summer marked the strongest buyer’s market since records began in 2013.

Texas saw some of the nation’s strongest buyer’s markets, led by Austin (130.7%), San Antonio (110.6%), Dallas (98.1%), HOUSTON (84.1% MORE SELLERS THAN BUYERS), and Fort Worth (76.4%).

07/23/2025

Summer sunsets are the best!

06/27/2025

ICE arrests are creating anxiety among Houston’s construction industry, where more than a third of workers are immigrants.

As the Trump administration escalates enforcement, even targeting those with legal work permits, the immigration crackdown threatens to destabilize a key pillar of the industry: access to affordable foreign-born labor.

With hundreds of thousands of construction jobs already unfilled nationwide, the question looms: If more immigrant workers disappear, who will be left to build?

06/12/2025

HOUSTON REAL ESTATE - MAY HIGHLIGHTS

• Days on Market for single-family homes went from 46 to 50 days.
• The single-family median price declined 1.2% to $339,425; and the single-family average price was down 0.7% to $438,230.
• Single-family home months of inventory lengthened from last May's 3.9 month supply to 5.2-months in May 2025.
• Townhome and condominium sales declined 12.9% year-over-year, with the median price declining 8.3% to $221,500, and the average price down 5.5% to $265,903.
• Total property sales increased 4.6% with 10,565 units sold vs May of 2024.

Buyers are definitely out this spring, with a lot more properties to choose from and longer to decide. Interest rates are showing signs of softening as well, which should bring a few more Buyers into the realm of qualifying for a home.