The Texas Real Estate Commission votes Monday on a rewrite of the rules that tell a licensed home inspector what to check in a house — including, for the first time, a written standard for running a camera down the sewer line.
The Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board votes Friday on whether to send out for public comment a rewrite of eleven rules governing appraisal management companies — the firms that stand between a mortgage lender and the appraiser who decides what a house is worth.
The Texas General Land Office on Monday posted Amendment 22 to the Hurricane Harvey $5.6 Billion State Action Plan for a federally required 30-day public comment period, according to an Aug. 3 news release from the agency.
Governor Greg Abbott announced more than $114 million in housing tax credits to finance the development or rehabilitation of 70 rental properties across Texas, a move the state says will create or preserve more than 4,400 affordable rental units, according to a July 23 news release.
Texas built its growth story on a simple promise: a family could move here and afford a home.
The financing engine behind much of suburban Texas got a daylong defense in the Capitol on Tuesday — and a warning from the people who live inside it.
The longest single stretch of Monday's House committee hearing was not about a law already on the books.
Four mayors and other city officials came to the Capitol on Monday to tell a Texas House committee they are complying with the state's most aggressive housing law passed last session.
Candidate filing opened Saturday for three elected seats on the Tarrant Appraisal District board, putting a two-year residential appraisal freeze that left an estimated 190,000 county homes overvalued in front of voters on Nov. 3.
Texas home insurers earned roughly 22 cents in profit for every dollar of premiums they collected in 2025 — their best year in two decades — according to preliminary financial data reported July 8, even as homeowners pay about 80% more for coverage than they did in 2020.