Real Estate This Week — August 18, 2026
Real Estate This Week — from Sonal Shah Houston. Tuesday, August 18, 2026. 40,750 homes for sale — a record — and sales still went up Chart: Sonal Shah Houston, from HAR’s July 2026 Housing Market Update Houston has never had this many homes for sale — 40,750 in July, the most HAR has ever […]
Better news for buyers, a straight answer on down payments, the August tune-up — and a house with its own runway
INSIDE FORT BEND Better news for buyers, a straight answer on down payments, the August tune-up — and a house with its own runway Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · Fort Bend County, TX · by Sonal Shah Here’s what’s moving in Fort Bend this week, in plain words. Four things: better news on affording a […]
Inside Fort Bend — August 4, 2026
Hi there — here’s what’s moving in Fort Bend, in plain words. The one thing no hurricane checklist tells you to pack Photo: Jill Carlson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Every hurricane list says water, batteries, canned food. None of them says cash. When Beryl came through on July 8, 2024, it cut power […]
A School Line Could Move Your Home’s Value
Fort Bend Market Pulse — from the Sonal Shah Houston eNewsletter · July 14, 2026 Four quiet moves this week — a school line, a buyer surge, new jobs, and $62 million at the airport — all touching what your home is worth. None of this made the evening news. But all four of these […]
Why Buyers Came Off the Fence in May
Fort Bend Market Pulse — from the Sonal Shah Houston eNewsletter · July 7, 2026 For two years, buyers waited. In May, a quiet shift in the math brought them back to the table — and it changes what your Fort Bend home is worth right now. The math finally moved in buyers’ favor Mortgage […]
5 Quiet Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Home
From the Sonal Shah Houston eNewsletter · Week of June 23, 2026 Think back to early 2020. Almost overnight, the kitchen table became the office, a bedroom corner became the Zoom backdrop, and “I’ll just work from the dining room for a few weeks” quietly turned into a way of life. Five years later, a […]