{"id":49066,"date":"2016-11-01T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-texas-home-sales-maintain-steady-increases-in-volume-and-price-over-third-quarter-of-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:43:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:43:12","slug":"las-ventas-de-viviendas-en-texas-mantuvieron-continuos-incrementos-en-volumen-y-precios-durante-el-tercer-trimestre-de-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/las-ventas-de-viviendas-en-texas-mantuvieron-continuos-incrementos-en-volumen-y-precios-durante-el-tercer-trimestre-de-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas home sales maintain steady increases in volume and price over third quarter of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">AUSTIN, Texas<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 1, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Texas home sales volume rose slightly in the third quarter of 2016 while median home prices continued to increase, according to the 2016-Q3 <i>Texas Quarterly Housing Report<\/i> released today by the Texas Association of Realtors. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> home sales in 2016 continue to edge out last year&#8217;s record-breaking sales volume, and in many local markets, growth is still very strong,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Leslie Rouda Smith<\/span>, chairman of the Texas Association of Realtors. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 91,248 homes were sold in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> in the third quarter of 2016, a 0.2 percent increase from 2015-Q3. In addition, the median price for homes in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> increased in the same timeframe by 7 percent, to <span class=\"xn-money\">$214,000<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Jim Gaines<\/span>, chief economist at the Real Estate Center at <span class=\"xn-org\">Texas A&amp;M University<\/span>, added, &#8220;Given the recent slowdown in the <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> economy, the performance of the <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> housing market in the third quarter is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>The demand for housing in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> continues to exceed supply, driving home prices upward. We just haven&#8217;t been building homes fast enough, and the rising land and development costs have made it difficult to build new homes at lower price points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Housing inventory continued to edge upward in 2016-Q3 to 3.9 months, an increase of 0.1 months from the same quarter of the previous year, and active listings rose 4.2 percent to 103,109 active listings. <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> homes spent slightly more time on the market in 2016-Q3, averaging 53 days, which is one day longer than the same quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Smith concluded, &#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> real estate and housing affordability are at the center the <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> economy and our state&#8217;s future growth. In the upcoming session of the Texas Legislature, it&#8217;s critical that we continue to take steps to keep homeownership affordable in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span>. The Texas Association of Realtors will continue to be the largest organization actively advocating on behalf of homeowners at the state Capitol to support that goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>About the Texas Quarterly Housing Report<br \/><\/b>Data for the Texas Quarterly Housing Report is provided by the Data Relevance Project, a partnership among local\u00a0REALTOR\u00ae\u00a0associations and their MLSs,\u00a0the Real Estate Center at <span class=\"xn-org\">Texas A&amp;M University<\/span>, and the Texas Association of\u00a0REALTORS\u00ae.\u00a0The report provides quarterly real estate sales data from a\u00a0statewide perspective and\u00a0for 25 metropolitan statistical areas in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span>. To view the 2016-Q3 Texas Quarterly Housing Report in its entirety, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasrealestate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TexasRealEstate.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About the Texas Association of REALTORS\u00ae<br \/><\/b>With more than 100,000 members, the Texas Association of REALTORS\u00ae is a professional membership organization that represents all aspects of real estate in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span>. We advocate on behalf of Texas REALTORS\u00ae and private-property owners to keep homeownership affordable, protect private-property rights, and promote public policies that benefit homeowners. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasrealestate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TexasRealEstate.com<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><b>CONTACT<\/b>:\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Danielle Urban<\/span><br \/>Pierpont Communications<br \/>512-448-4950<br \/><a href=\"mailto:durban@piercom.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">durban@piercom.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">AUSTIN, Texas<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 1, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Texas home sales volume rose slightly in the third quarter of 2016 while median home prices continued to increase, according to the 2016-Q3 <i>Texas Quarterly Housing Report<\/i> released today by the Texas Association of Realtors. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> home sales in 2016 continue to edge out last year&#8217;s record-breaking sales volume, and in many local markets, growth is still very strong,&#8221; said &lt;span&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}