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04/19/2026

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09/08/2025

Help support the McKInney Boyd Baseball team!! Buy one for yourself or donate one and we'll deliver it to a local senior living center here in McKinney

09/06/2025

03/18/2025

Gen Zers are hitting the ages and life events that typically predicate a home purchase.

Gen Zers are hitting the ages and life events that typically predicate a home purchase. Unfortunately, the group — born between 1997 and 2012 — must grapple with a tough marketplace of high prices and mortgage rates, coupled with low (but improving) for-sale inventory. Although, some cities give...

03/16/2025

Mortgage rates have fallen in seven of the last eight weeks. The downward-trending graph for interest on new home loans has got to be at least a little encouraging for buyers and sellers heading into spring.

This week, the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage did edge up marginally to 6.65%, according to Freddie Mac. Still, that’s down from the most recent peak of just over 7% in mid-January. Remember, the rate topped 7.75% in 2023 as inflation spiked and the Federal Reserve hiked short-term rates.

03/14/2025

Some people say that’s a good thing for the local economy, while others argue that it displaces long-term residents who get priced out.

“Gentrification can bring investment into areas that may not have received much attention in years past,” says Hannah Jones, Realtor.com® senior economic research analyst. “However, typically the primary beneficiaries of this investment are not the families and populations that have inhabited...

03/12/2025

High mortgage rates and elevated home prices combined to crush home sales in January.

Pending sales, which are based on signed contracts for existing homes, dropped 4.6% from December to the lowest level since the National Association of Realtors began tracking this metric in 2001. Sales were down 5.2% from January 2024. These sales are an indicator of future closings.

03/10/2025

Mortgage rates have fallen seven weeks in a row, encouraging more potential homebuyers to shop around.

The National Association of Realtors’ Pending Home Sales Index fell 4.6% in January to hit an all-time low. Home affordability issues persist as homeownership costs continue to outpace income levels and mortgage rates remain elevated. However, that could change during the spring, which is typicall...

03/09/2025

The steep decline in new home sales, reported by the Commerce Department on Wednesday, also likely reflected the impact of snowstorms and extremely cold weather in much of the country last month.

Sales of new US single-family homes fell more than expected in January as persistently high mortgage rates sidelined potential buyers, the latest indication that the housing market and overall economic activity slowed early in the first quarter (1Q).

03/06/2025

The report highlights county-level housing markets across the United States that are more or less susceptible to declines in the third quarter of 2024.

According to ATTOM’s newly released Q3 2024 Housing Market Impact Risk Report, California, New Jersey, and Illinois once again feature a high concentration of the most at-risk markets, with several areas in Florida also falling into this category.