Written by theblog on October 1, 2009 – 1:02 am
The Houston Real Estate Market saw 5,555 home sales in August 2009. August dipped below July’s sales by 724 homes. Not only did August not hit July’s precedent, the sales are also abysmal compared to previous August sales. In August 2008, there were 6,251 home sales. August 2009 was 11 percent lower than its previous year counterpart, and 29 percent [...]
Written by theblog on September 9, 2009 – 11:19 pm
July 2009 home sales in Houston are the highest numbers we’ve seen since August 2008. July 2009 has 6393 home sales. This is less than seen in July 2008, when 6718 homes were sold or in July 2007, when 7551 homes were sold. These are 5 and 15 percent drops, respectively.
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Written by theblog on July 31, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Houston saw 5,987 home sales in June 2009, which is a 14 percent loss from June 2008’s 6,981 and a 25 percent drop from June 2007’s 7,947. This is the first drop under 15 percent since December 2008, but continues the eighteen plus month pattern of yearly drops in home sales. The two year change [...]
Written by theblog on June 28, 2009 – 5:58 pm
There were 5,246 homes sold in Houston during May 2009. This is the lowest number of May sales since May 2000’s 5,215, and it is barely above that. May 2008 had 6,781 sales. May 2009 had a 23 percent drop from last year, and a 34 percent drop from 2007’s 7,925 sales.
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Written by theblog on June 7, 2009 – 6:26 am
The stats for the Houston market are out for April. The number of sales were pretty poor. How poor? There were 4621 sales in April 2009. This is down 24 percent from last year and down 32 percent from 2 years ago. Not only that, the last time there was [...]
Written by theblog on April 24, 2009 – 6:45 pm
Houston had 4751 home sales in March 2009. This is almost 1000 more than February; however, but it is in the bottom 1/6th for sales months in the time period shown. It was also far under March 2008 and March 2007 sales. March 2009 was 18.3 percent under its 2008 counterpart, and 29.9 percent below [...]
Written by theblog on April 1, 2009 – 5:03 am
Houston’s real estate market made a 22.7 percent gain in February 2009 over January; however, the outlook is still gloomy. February 2009 post 25.6 percent less sales than February 2008, and 31.9 percent less than February 2007. Although many suggest February is the turn around month, these are simply speculations, and there is no way to [...]
Written by theblog on February 25, 2009 – 12:53 am
There were 3065 home sales in Houston for January 2009. These numbers are lower than their one and two year prior counterparts. The number in January 2009 was 24.9 percent lower than January 2008, and 34.02 percent lower than January 2007. January 2001 had 2789 sales. This is the last time Houston had a number [...]
Written by theblog on January 28, 2009 – 8:42 am
Houston experienced another double-digit drop in one year home sales in December 2008. This was the sixteenth consecutive month experiencing a drop from its counterpart one year prior, and the tenth consecutive month with a double-digit decrease.
December 2008 had 29.02 less sales than December 2007; this is almost 2000 homes in real numbers. Everyone month [...]
Written by on January 7, 2009 – 2:04 am
The one-year drop in home sales for November 2008 was the highest drop seen in a dismal year. Every month in 2008 lost sales from their 2007 counterpart. The lowest drop came in February, which was 8.47 percent lower than February of 2007. This was the only single digit drop in the year. November saw [...]