https://www.har.com/content/department/newsroomHouston Real Estate Highlights in March, 2024:-Single-family home sales declined 7.5 percent year-over-year;-Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes went from 62 to 55 days;-Total property sales were down 7.0 percent with 8,939 units sold;-Total dollar volume fell 5.6 percent to $3.5 billion;-The single-family median price rose 1.6 percent to $330,000;-The single-family average price rose 1.3 percent to $412,464; -Single-family home months of inventory registered a 3.5-months supply, up from 2.6 months a year earlier;-Townhome/condominium sales continued to decline, falling 6.7 percent, with the median price up 5.1 percent to $235,000 and the average price up 2.2 percent to $276,262.

Renate (Petronella) Kerssens @Petronella Kerssens the biggest thing I would be looking at is the supply levels for each market.

With inflation and unstable supply and demand makes it hard to keep stable.

Could the water supply be adversely affected, a fire started, or a building be rendered unsafe?  

I also believe that we can utilize technological tools such as data analytics platforms and market research databases to track key metrics, market supply and demand, rental rates, and occupancy trends.

I have good news about the supply of homes for sale in the three county area around sacramento county.

In a similar fashion, if you can imagine how much landscaping and underground infrastructure is in a golf course as compared to the clubhouse, that will give an indication of why an extremely high percentage of the property's value is allocated to the land improvements.

I left the industry to pursue a career in wholesale electrical sales and am now a project manager at Summit Electric Supply.

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Other than maybe investing in a REIT, very little of it is really passive, especially since a lot of the advantages of real estate relative to other investments revolve around the fact that you can *actively* participate in some fashion and end up with better returns than other, more passive investments (a mutual fund, for example).