Kingwood Through Cliff's Eyes

Buy versus Rent? There are many factors involved in this equation and like all things when considering real estate, location is key. If you are talking about areas where affordable housing begins at $350,000 and up, renting may be cheaper than buying. In Kingwood, Texas, I believe the advantage i...

A recent report released on House Prices in America, by Global Insight, Inc and National City Economics., has found that the Houston area's real estate market is under-valued by an unbelievable 33.1%! Factors in determining an area's value were based on population, income and interest rates, amon...

If you are waiting for the national news in regards to the housing market to get better, then your wait is over.   Although in the news last week it was all about the 14% decline in home sales nationwide, what the media did not tell you is that the worst of the mortgage credit crisis is over. Acc...

Last week in my blog, I mentioned that interest rates had moved up slightly.  Interest rates have been very volatile for the past two weeks. In the beginning of May, rates were hovering below the 6% mark but now the reverse is true. Yesterday's rates moved down somewhat due to the drop in the pri...