Dropping a termination notice in the mail is still enough to get a Texas home buyer out of a contract — and the lawyers and brokers who write those contracts said Oct. 9 they would rather it were not.
The board of the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation meets Oct. 20 to take the opening step toward a new round of mortgage bonds — the borrowing that pays for the below-market home loans and down-payment grants the corporation offers Texans who cannot clear a conventional mortgage on their own.
The person tracking the deadlines on a Texas home sale — handling the contract, reading the proof of funds, sitting on the email chain with the title company — often holds no real estate license, has passed no background check and answers to no particular broker.
The five-member board that regulates manufactured homes in Texas meets Oct. 15 for the first time since Nov. 10, and will be asked to approve an operating budget with seven fewer positions than the division was funded for in 2025.
The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) launched a new webpage that gives Texans insight into why home insurance companies decline, cancel, or don’t renew certain policies, organized by ZIP code, the agency said in a Sept. 22 news release.
The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is clarifying its rule that insurance companies cannot decline or not renew a home insurance policy based on the age of a house or its roof, the agency said in a Sept. 29 news release.
The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) issued a bulletin pushing home insurance companies to give premium discounts to homeowners who make their homes more resistant to damage from storms and wildfires, the agency said in a Sept. 15 news release.
The number came from the regulator herself.
Two stalled apartment projects are asking the Texas housing board to reissue federal tax credits they handed back, skipping the yearly competition that normally decides who gets them.
The average Texas homeowner now pays more than $3,500 a year for insurance, up from under $2,000 in 2020.