Are there enough sellers compared to buyers? How are home prices doing? Industry insider Russ Anderson answers all the questions.

Whether you are buying or selling a home, the services of a professional real estate agent can make a big difference to your outcome. Here's how to pick out one who will give your purchase or sale the golden touch.

Buying and Selling 101: When it comes to purchasing a property, how much earnest money is enough to show you’re, well, earnest?

Each Friday, Robbie Briggs, CEO of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, writes about luxury, trends, business and more in the advertising pages of the Mansion section of The Wall Street Journal. Below is his letter of May 20, 2022.

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

Has technology changed real estate? 

Absolutely. And not at all.

The way a potential buyer first sees homes has completely changed. The search begins online, where buyers pore over photographs and details before they [...]

COLLEGE STATION Many Texans have received notices this month that their properties appraised much higher this year than last. Such increases often leave property owners expecting exorbitantly high property tax bills the following year, but an economist with the Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) at Texas A&M University says thats a [...]

COLLEGE STATION — Many Texans have received notices this month that their properties appraised much higher this year than last. Such increases often leave property owners expecting exorbitantly high property tax bills the following year, but an economist with the Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) at Texas A&M University says that’s a [...]