DFW up 22%! AND 8 reasons why N TX rocks!

what has reached a level we haven’t seen in four years?? North Texas home sales, that’s what! this past May real estate agents sold 7,618 pre-owned single-family homes which is 22% MORE than in May 2011, according to North Texas Real Estate Information Systems Inc. that’s not all – year-to-date home sales are UP 16% […]

4,855 home sales, 138% Southlake, and DFW Rocks!

november marks the FIFTH straight month that home sales have increased in North Texas, according to the Texas A&M Real Estate Center’s report released last Thursday. last month 4,855 homes were sold representing a 13% increase over November 2010. FURTHERMORE this increase brought our year-t0-date numbers back to level – which had been lagging since the […]

Texas OUTPERFORMS the nation – ahhhhgain!

what a great time to be giving thanks – especially in the great state of Texas. existing home sales were up 8% from a year ago according to The Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. there were more than 15,600 homes sold, the medium price was up 2% to $147,500, and inventory was down […]

H-town, our DFW brethren, is rockin’ as well!

the federal government’s numbers on housing starts came out wednesday morning showing a 15% increase! that’s right, builders are building and buyers are buying! in fact, according to metrostudy builders are building homes faster than folks are buying and moving into them – which represents a bullish sign on demand and for future housing starts activity […]

my counter attack to a DFW’s local rag doom n gloom article

as you may already know the sole existence for http://www.AccordingToCole.com is to supply you with POSITIVE news as it relates to the real estate market primarily in North Texas and blow as many holes in the doom and gloom media’s ‘the sky is falling’ articles. it’s not often i take on an article directly, but this one […]

5,515 homes sold in ONE month!

DFW rocks! North Texas home sales increased for the 3rd consecutive month in september with 5,515 homes sold. that’s 14% MORE than this time last year. what else?? let’s look at this trend…earlier this year home sales were down 15% from 2010; at the end of august the gap narrowed to only 4%; and by […]

nat’l economy = 0…..DFW = 27!! (percent, that is)

searching for another reason as proof positive that DFW rocks?? how about these apples – buyers in the 29 county north Texas region purchased 6,822 homes in august which represents a 27% increase over august of 2010. THIS IS HUGE! in Tarrant county alone there were sales increases in 27 out of 32 submarkets! STILL not […]

US pent up housing demand tsunami swelling? yes!

the talking heads, doom & gloom media feel so inclined to paint this ugly “housing double dip” picture for all of America to see….daily nonetheless! let’s look at this from my perspective, shall we? this week’s report on existing home sales showed activity edging down 0.6% to 5.02 million units and data on february’s new […]