HomesUSA.com: Texas Builders See Solid Late Spring Surge
HomesUSA.com reports higher inventory, stabilizing sales pace and steady prices Texas home builders experienced a solid late spring surge as new home sales in May reached their highest level so far this year, according to the latest Texas New Home Sales Report released today by HomesUSA.com and its founder and CEO, Ben Caballero, the nation’s top-ranked real estate agent. The […]
Against the odds, RealTrends Verified agents and teams deliver big gains
Even in a housing market squeezed by low inventory and high interest rates, the real estate industry’s top performers continued to rise. More than 45,000 agents and teams secured a spot on the 2025 RealTrends Verified rankings, showing that experience and execution still drive success even in challenging conditions. Among them, those ranked in RealTrends […]
Ben Caballero: Real Estate Titan, Tech Innovator and Texas Legend Sets a New World Record for Home Sales
$27,000,000,000. Nine zeros. That atmospheric number is Iceland’s annual GNP. It’s also the total homes sales volume real estate titan and Texas legend Ben Caballero of HomesUSA.com did as an individual sales agent over the last two decades (2004-2024). As a solo sales agent for every listing verified by the MLS, Ben averages over $1 […]
Austin-area new home sales and prices drop: a look at the housing market trends
By Shonda Novak So what’s up in the new-home market in the Austin region? Not sales and prices, new numbers show. Of Texas’ four major metros, the Austin metro and San Antonio saw sales of newly built houses decline (15.7% and 2.37% respectively) in April compared to April 2024. Year-over-year, sales of new homes in […]
Real Estate Titan Ben Caballero Sets a New World Record – Again – with Nearly $4 Billion in Annual Home Sales
America’s No. 1-ranked real estate agent sets a new global benchmark with 7,722 verified home sales totaling $3.92 billion DALLAS, May 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ben Caballero has done it for the fourth time. The nation’s most productive real estate agent and a three-time world record title holder for new home sales has obliterated his own […]
Want to sell 7k houses in a year? Here’s how
Decades ago, Ben Caballero was passing through Dallas on his way back home to Oklahoma City when the water pump on his car went out. Very quickly, locals stopped to help. They directed him to a garage. And the experience changed Caballero’s life forever. “I was about 20 years old,” Caballero recently told Inman. “I […]
‘Signs of strain’ hit DFW new home market amid spring season
New home sales in North Texas fell in March, with DFW seeing lower sales than February. New home sales and prices in North Texas slid last month and homebuilders in the region are seeing some of the lowest profit margins in the country, according to a couple of recent reports. New home sales in the […]
Can home builders automate their MLS listings?
By Ben Caballero Production builders have built their business on faster, more accurate ways to manage their data over the last several years. They’ve invested in CRMs, ERPs, and back-office platforms that track every detail of their homes, from pricing and lot status to construction timelines. But what about MLS data? Can home builders automate […]
Interest rates put ‘downward pressure’ on Texas new-home sales last month
by Emily Marek New-home sales fell in Texas as interest rates sidelined buyers in February, according to the Texas New Home Sales Report from HomesUSA. Across Texas’ four largest cities, new-home sales increased year over year, but decreased month over month. In Houston, there were 2,029 new-home sales in February, up from 1,827 a year prior. […]
Houston new home prices fell during January sales slump
By Amber Heckler A new statewide real estate report has shown a slow decline in new home sales across Texas, including in the Houston metro area. The latest New Home Sales Index by HomesUSA.com discovered Houston saw the most new homes sold in January out of the four biggest metros in Texas, despite being in […]
