HAR Launches “Online Consumer Panel”
I am always ama
zed at the creativeness of the tech/marketing folks at our ♥ Board of Realtors here in Houston, Texas:
Rozlynn Crew / March 15, 2012 / No Comment
In another REALTOR® association first, HAR has created an Online Consumer Research Panel of HAR.com subscribers. The goal of the panel is to continually survey Houston area real estate consumers and gather information that will be used to improve the services offered by HAR and help inform HAR members about better ways to serve their clients.
Working in partnership with the WAV Group, the first survey was on the topic of Lifestyle search preferences. With more than 1,900 consumer responses, the majority of consumers polled are very interested in the idea of lifestyle search as an effective method for identifying a neighborhood or location that works for their lifestyle needs. The most popular search factors included schools/school ratings, walk-a-bility and distance from work/school. You may review the complete results of the survey by clicking here.
Future polling topics include consumer interest in market statistics, HAR.com and third party search preferences, Transaction Management and Mobile Search.
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Where the Jobs Will Be-Houston at #3
From Forbes Magazine: Manpower surveyed the top 100 communities in the US for general sentiment from those employers what their plans for employing in first quarter of 2012.
The results can be found here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2011/12/13/where-the-jobs-will-and-wont-be-in-2012/
Good news for Houston, Texas as it has been throughout 2011. I suspect the rental markets will be good and getting better throughout ’12.
Call me if you are interested in more news for the housing market here in Houston.
Gae Bowman/Driscoll Bowman
Driscoll Bowman @ 713-553-4771
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Houston Assoc Realtors Oct. 2011 stats
From Ted Jones, economist at Stewart Title Co.: Houston–the Teflon® Economy and Real Estate Markets—A Few Scratches, But the Bad Stuff is Not Sticking and We Keep on Cooking | Inside Policy & Politics | a Chron.com blog http://bit.ly/s80zy5
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CATEGORIES |
October 2010 | October 2011 | PERCENT CHANGE |
| Total property sales |
4,420 |
4,815 |
8.9% |
| Total dollar volume |
$867,182,719 |
$961,640,986 |
10.9% |
| Total active listings |
53,039 |
46,674 |
-12.0% |
| Total pending sales |
2,821 |
3,092 |
9.6% |
| Single-family home sales |
3,741 |
4,080 |
9.1% |
| Single-family average sales price |
$206,165 |
$208,506 |
1.1% |
| Single-family median sales price |
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
0.0% |
| Single-family months inventory* |
7.7 |
6.6 |
-14.1% |
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Houston gained the most private sector jobs in the U.S
Apparently Houston along with San Antonio, Austin, & the El Paso area have faired positively for job growth since the recession in 2007 began. Houston gained the most, 23,000 between September 2007 and September 2011. The largest job gain than any other metropolitan city in the United States as reported by the Labor Department of the federal government. In contrast L.A, Ca., lost 447,800 private sector jobs in the same period.
It’s good to be in Texas! 