"Flash home sales" -Houston is #3 in the nation, Dallas & Austin are right behind it-

[Pro88LX]

Yeah, FL homes for the most part are luxury properties, as in vacation homes. That shit was the first to go when the economy tanked. I'm not 100% on this, but I want to say she paid around $160-180 for her condo, and it's worth in the $85,000 range as of a month ago.

yea, that sucks. But what makes me laugh is the people who let them go, then go rent something for more than their mortgage was. Plus they cant buy anything for 4+ years on most programs.

[D. Lil]

Fuck man, I'm looking to purchase my first home in a very few short weeks.

Good luck man it is nuts. I've been looking in Mckinney and I lucked out and found one that was for sale by owner and happened to be the first one he talked to.

[mikeb]

I sold my house in McKinney in June of 2012 and it wasn't even on the market. My wife had some girl talk with a friend of hers that is a realtor and she happened to mention that we were thinking about selling. I had also heard that houses in our subdivision were suddenly going like hotcakes. A day later the realtor called with an interested party, and 3 days later i was homeless

We had tried to sell the house before years ago and the best offer we got was $20k less than we owed on it. I was glad to sell it.

[4king]

Had the same problem when looking at houses, they were literally sold before you could view them. Unless you knew the listing realtor you are SOL on a listing

I had to have my house built. My realtor called me and told me the housing area expanded and they were selling lots. Jumped on it first day, first house in the new plot. We came back the next week to go over plans and every lot had already pre sold.

They were also the only builder doing custom garages. Mine is a 4 car garage, please disregard my daily driver

[talisman]

Good thing you're garaging that beast!

[Cooter]

Fuck man, I'm looking to purchase my first home in a very few short weeks.

Good luck with all that!

I'm building my next house. House shopping was bad enough when it was more of a buyer's market.

[slow06]

When we were looking for houses in Arlington about this time last year things were going rather quickly. Lost out on several houses we liked because by the time we had walked through they had already accepted an offer. We had a deadline so I was not enjoying the house search at all.

I think that mostly had to to with the being in the ~ $100k price range though (<< Not a DFWBaller), it is interesting to hear that happening in higher price ranges as well.

Tags took my other comment...

[aggie97]

We sold my father in laws place in houston at barker cypress and 10 in a day with multiple offers of $20/sf higher than normal. Original offer was nearly $100k above what we expected to ask.....in cash. Guy was a loon and wanted a bunch of stuff and close in 10 days. He was a foriegn national moving from canada for BP. Glad to take his money and set the bar for sf price in that area.