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 […]
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. […]
SpecDeck: Texas homebuilders are using AI to accelerate sales
New platform transforms MLS listing management for builders in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio November 12, 2024 – In Texas, the number one state for new homes built in the US, more than two dozen production homebuilders – those building at scale each year – are turning to new technology that includes Generative AI […]
Dallas cedes No. 1 new home market designation in Texas
Dallas-Fort Worth has lost its spot as the No. 1 new home sales market in Texas, according to a new report. DFW, which led all Texas metros in sales of newly built homes for much of 2023, has been No. 2 to Houston every month in 2024, according to data from Dallas-based HomesUSA.com. A single […]
Builders: Are you losing money with your MLS listings?
As a production homebuilder dealing dozens of listings, have you ever stopped to calculate how much time and money you’re losing by managing your MLS listings with an inefficient manual process? The real estate market is already competitive enough, so why leave money on the table with outdated processes? For years, builders have recognized that […]
More than two dozen Texas homebuilders are using new technology – including AI – to accelerate sales with HomesUSA.com’s SpecDeck
New platform transforms MLS listing management for builders in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio DALLAS, Oct. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In Texas, the number one state for new homes built in the US, more than two dozen production homebuilders – those building at scale each year – are turning to new technology that […]
New-home sales decline in Texas’ four-largest markets in August
New-home sales slowed in Texas’ four largest markets last month, according to the latest report from HomesUSA. The three-month average of home sales in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio rose to 5,803 in August versus 5,977 in July. By city, the August three-month moving average of new-home sales in Dallas-Ft. Worth slid to 1,862 from 1,902 […]
