The Houston Association of REALTORS® is making headlines! Here’s a look at some of the media coverage our organization has received over the past few weeks.

HAR’s May 2018 MLS news release – reporting another positive month for home sales and the highest average and median prices of all time – generated coverage from mid- to late June in the following media outlets:

  • Bellaire Essentials
  • Community Impact Newspaper
  • CultureMap Houston
  • Examiner Newspapers
  • Houston Agent Magazine
  • Houston Business Journal (online and print editions)
  • Houston Chronicle (online and print editions)
  • Houston Community Newspapers
  • Houston Public Media / KUHF 88.7 FM
  • KHOU-TV / 11 News
  • KPRC-TV / Local 2
  • KRIV-TV / FOX 26 News
  • KTRH / NewsRadio 740
  • KTRK-TV / ABC 13 Eyewitness News
  • Realty News Report (RNR)

 

HAR Chair Kenya Burrell-VanWormer was a guest on the July 9 edition of The Caffeinated Show, a live, on-location women’s podcast discussing the Houston real estate market and the housing industry.

Community Impact Newspaper published a story on July 9 about how home pricing throughout the greater Houston area was largely unaffected by Hurricane Harvey. Citing HAR data, the report quoted HAR Governmental Affairs Advisory Group Chairman Ed Wolff and Dr. Jim Gaines, chief economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.

On July 13, Houston Business Journal web producer Jen Para took online readers on a virtual tour of the 10 most expensive homes sold in June 2018 using data that HAR provided from our MLS. The feature contained a gallery of color photos of the properties courtesy of the listing agents/brokerages cited in the report.

Inman News published a story on July 14 that HAR was among the finalists in its annual Most Innovative MLS, Association of Real Estate Organization awards competition. Winners were to be announced during the Inman Connect San Francisco conference in mid-July.

These stories and more are available in the HAR Online Newsroom at www.har.com/content/newsroom  as well as in HAR Connect.