HAR 2010 Chair Margie Dorrance spoke at the Lone Star CRS Holiday Education Luncheon about the greater Houston real estate market, what HAR has done in the past year and where we are headed.

1. Margie Dorrance Houston Association of REALTORS ® 2010 Chair of the Board Texas Lone Star CRS Holiday Education Luncheon

3. Houston Has the Second Largest Local REALTOR® Association in the U.S.

5. HAR.com is 17 th in the U.S. out of 49,934 real estate search terms

6. 40 MILLION EYES… EVERY MONTH!

10. Houston Home Sales Had Picked Back Up, but Declined After April

11. Steady as She Goes in Houston

12. Months Inventory Has Risen

13. Active Listings Broke the Pattern…But Are Heading Up Nicely

14. Prices Tapered Off, But Have Begun Rising Again

15. New Homes Sales Through MLS Peaked in 2006 But Still Strong

16. Permits Peaked in Summer 2006 But Are Coming Off Their Lows

22. FIND: Natural Language Search REALTOR® Property Resource Browser-neutral mapping search; Apple-users will be happy

23. Promote listings on social networking sites Twitter Accounts: 1,200 Tweets: 31,619

25. Videos viewed 73,000 times on

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