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            <title>Houston-One Of The 5 Best Housing Markets For The Long Term</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
According to The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch, Jan 23, 2012:

&quot;A strong jobs recovery is working in this market&rsquo;s favor, where the oil drilling and services sector rules. It&rsquo;s also an area with high population growth &mdash; almost triple the national average, according to Local Market Monitor. &ldquo;The housing boom was all one way, with prices up 21%. The recession was almost non-existent, with jobs down just 1% [over the past year],&rdquo; Winzer said. At left, the sh... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:37:29 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Better to Buy than Rent in Most U.S Cities.....</title>
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Home prices have taken such a beating and demand for rental units has increased so much that it's now cheaper to buy a two-bedroom home than to rent one in most major U.S. cities. Houston is no exception.

According to real estate web site Trulia, buying was cheaper than renting in 74% of the country's 50 largest cities in July. In just 12% of the cities, including New York, Seattle and San Francisco, renting was cheaper. In the remaining 14% of cities, renting was less e... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:45:22 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>erika@mccannproperties.com (Erika McCann)</author>
            <title>Houston named as one of 10 cities poised for greatness in 2012!</title>
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Read more about this here:http://www.mainstreet.com/article/lifestyle/10-cities-poised-greatness-2012?page=10

Moving to Houston? Living in Houston but want to change neighborhoods? call or email&nbsp;me, I can help!

Erika@McCannProperties.com or 832-244-0029
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:46:12 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>HOUSTON HOME SALES REMAIN IN POSITIVE TERRITORY FOR A SIXTH STRAIGHT MONTH</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Consumers kept the Houston real estate market humming in November, accounting for the sixth consecutive month of positive home sales this year. The year-over-year increase in single-family homes sales, along with another rise in pending sales and further decline in months inventory, reflects a market that continues to benefit from a healthy absorption of housing inventory as 2011 winds down.... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:46:54 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Houston Leads Nation In Job Growth</title>
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Houston may be know as Space City, but this week it has another new title: the job-creation capital of the United States.

Houston added 65,600 nonfarm jobs between August 2010 and the same month this year, the biggest raw gain by any of the country's 100 major metros, according to statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics&nbsp;&nbsp;

Following behind Houston in raw employment gains are New York City (up 57,400 jobs in the past year), Boston (up 50,600), and Dallas-F... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:11:33 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Houston Home Sales Increase a Stunning 30% In August, 2011</title>
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According to the latest monthly data prepared by the Houston Association of REALTORS&reg; (HAR), August sales of single-family homes climbed 30.2 percent versus one year earlier. This increase follows home sales gains recorded in January, June and July of this year. All segments of the housing market, from the sub-$80,000 to the $500,000 and above, experienced positive sales in August. On a year-to-date basis, sales rose 1.8 percent. Compared to August of 2009, a year with no unusual market inf... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:40:09 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Houston No. 1 in New Housing Construction</title>
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 Houston is leading the nation in residential construction activity, according to data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.




The agency found the total value of all private housing projects approved in the Houston area collectively last year was $4.17 billion. The figure tops the highest value listed among the nation&rsquo;s 366 metropolitan areas.

Dallas took second place at $3.87 billion in authorized private housing units in 2010, with New York&rsquo;s $3.05 billion figure rounding out t... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:10:59 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage Rates Hit New 50 Year Low-August 18, 2011</title>
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Mortgage rates reached record lows this week, according to the weekly market survey from Freddie Mac. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate loan fell to 4.15 percent, with borrowers paying an average point of 0.7 percent. That rate is down from 4.32 percent last week.

It is &ldquo;the lowest in over 50 years,&rdquo; Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist at Freddie Mac, said in a news release. The survey&rsquo;s previous low was 4.17 percent in November 2010.

Average fixed rates... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:00:09 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>HOUSTON HOME PRICES REACH A RECORD HIGH IN JUNE 2011</title>
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Home sales increase for the second time this year!



Reported by the Houston Association of Realtors July 19, 2011 &mdash; Houston home sales rose for the second time this year in June, with the average price reaching an all-time high and the median price achieving the highest level in nearly two years. The sales increase reflects the slowdown in home purchases that set in a year ago following expiration of the home buyer tax credit. The credit triggered a surge in home buying during the spri... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:28:16 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Houston-Predicted To Be One of The Next Boom Towns-Forbes.com July 2011</title>
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What cities are best positioned to grow and prosper in the coming decade?

Houston came in at No 5 and here's why:

To determine the next boom towns in the U.S., Forbes, took the 52 largest metro areas in the country (those with populations exceeding 1 million) and ranked them based on various data indicating past, present and future vitality.

Forbes&nbsp;started with job growth, not only looking at performance over the past decade but also focusing on growth in the past two years, to account ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:16:17 -0500</pubDate>
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