http://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Houston Real Estate Highlights in January: Single-family home sales rose 8.9 percent year-over-year, with 4,469 units sold;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes increased slightly from 65 days in January 2017 to 67 days this January;Total property sales increased 8.7 percent with 5,468 units sold;Total dollar volume climbed 6.3 percent to $1.4 billion;The single-family home median price rose 3.8 percent to $218,000, which represents a January high;The single-family home average price declined 2.1 percent to $270,303;Single-family homes months of inventory was unchanged year-over-year at a 3.3-months supply;Townhome/condominium sales fell 1.3 percent, with the average price up 2.1 percent to $192,918 and the median price up 13.6 percent to $159,000;Leases of single-family homes rose 1.9 percent with the average rent up 1.4 percent to $1,748;Volume of townhome/condominium leases fell 5.3 percent with average rent up 1.3 percent to $1,516

What this means is if the property is worth $1 billion dollars, you can only take a loan of $625,500 and stay within Fannie Mae guidelines.  

There's are tons of up and coming areas in the city and I truly believe that this will be the next city in the entire country to boom given the formation of the Beltline, Amazon likely moving its 2nd headquarters here, 2 new stadiums professional sports stadiums, planning for street cars/trollies all throughout the city, great schools already here, billions worth of investment in the city and the fact that the actual city of Atlanta (not focusing on the metro) can be expanded even more, amongst other things.The city is going through a mini boom right now for sellers, but it seems to be sellers who bought their homes back in 2010-2015 who are now trying to make a profit on it because they bought it for dirt cheap.

I would say they are B class, not in a densely populated area, but close to lots of developed area (has to be billions of dollars) over the last 10 years.The building(s) I would be looking at would put me as the primary owner.

It seems that a couple of brokers at Credit Suisse are in trouble for selling subprime securities to customers without telling them. Just another day at the office...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_bi_ge/...

There is Bethesda, Rockville, and Kentlands that house some of the one percent of the Americans making billions and millions of dollars, then you have suitland and temple hills, where the residents may make up to $40,000 per year.

Nevertheless, by 2037, we are expected to hit 9 billion.

Hi,After 16 years on the business and about a 1/2 BillioN in real estate serviced I've turned to the Rebate model via #Str8Rebate.Commission rebates are not very well known by the RE consumer and even the real estate broker.  

Just today they arrested hundreds over a billion dollar prescription drug scam.

@Erica Nagle  don't beat yourself up...professional seminar and marketers are very good at what they do.. you get caught up in the moment.its the same with those on this site that blow 25k on how to wholesale houses and get rich.or 30k on how to buy npn and get rich..the how to business in selling real estate info is a huge billion dollar industry.. and at the end of the day most of us have paid for some training at some time..