Information about Fort Hood / Killeen Area tax rates, tax assessors and municipalities, and how it affects your home expenses and mortgage.
Everything You Need to Know About Fort Hood, TX Property Taxes
August is Cold – The Seasons of the Fort Hood, TX Housing Market
No surprises – winter is the best time to buy, and summer is the best time to sell. A quick review of how many homes sold by month in 2017.
Fort Hood’s HUGEST Homes For Sale
Originally published 1/17/16, Updated 5/23/17 Everything is Bigger in Texas Fort Hood is one of America’s largest military bases in the world by both population and area. The post features big tanks, big guns and big helicopters. Everything is bigger in Texas. The area’s homes are no exception. The median home size in the Fort […]
How Many Fort Hood Area Buyers are Looking For Your Home?
Updated 8/12/16; originally published 8/3/15 Takeaways Selling a $120,000 home is different to selling a $240,000 home – there are different quantities of buyers at different price points. Knowing how many buyers to expect will be interested in your home at any given moment can help set expectations Every showing counts! Let’s say you are getting […]
Fort Hood Housing Market Update – 2nd Quarter, 2016
Takeaways Fort Hood inventory falls under 5 months, creeping toward a Seller’s Market The rebounding fourplex/duplex market has plateaued The Harker Heights housing market continues to be one of the best performing communities Housing Inventory Falls Under 5 Months The Fort Hood area behaves like a weak buyer’s market – sellers often pay closing costs, […]
Fort Hood’s HOA Neighborhoods
Updated 6/26/16; originally published 8/21/15 Some people are looking for them. Others are trying to avoid them. Home Owners Associations. Most neighborhoods in the Fort Hood area are not HOA neighborhoods. Unlike HOA fees in the pricey coastal communities exhibited on HGTV shows, Central Texas HOAs tend to be very affordable – as you will […]
The Best Pool Homes For Sale Near Fort Hood, TX
Updated 2/4/18; Originally published 5/31/16 It’s Central Texas. It’s hot! There must be pools galore! Or not. Approximately 5%, or 1 in 20 homes in the Fort Hood area have pools. Why so few? Firstly, it may not actually be quite that few. My guess is that pool owners tend to live in their homes […]
The Most Expensive Homes for Sale in Harker Heights, TX
Updated 2/3/18; Originally published 3/9/16 Harker Heights is known as the Fort Hood area city with the higher home values (approximately 50% higher than the median Fort Hood area home). It has many more established parts of town that have maintained their property values even in the face of rampant building and growth in the area. And […]
The 6 Best Neighborhoods to “Flip” or Wholesale in Harker Heights, TX
Last week, I dug into some Killeen neighborhoods that flippers and wholesellers might consider exploring. Now let’s check out Harker Heights! I also went over last week the several reasons why Killeen flippers and wholesellers face headwinds. Many of those same headwinds apply to Harker Heights. There are still builders galore, the average year homes […]
Selling Your House Vacant? That’ll Cost You $8756.27 in the Fort Hood Area.
How does it affect the price if you sell your home vacant versus while living in it? I studied the Ft. Hood area (Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove) MLS stats to come up with an answer, and it was the complete opposite of what I expected.
What Happened in the 2015 Fort Hood Housing Market?
The final verdict is in on the Fort Hood real estate market in 2015 – trending upwards!
5 Tips for Living in the Fort Hood Area
5 Random tips on what to expect and how to better manage living in the Fort Hood Area (Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove, etc.)
Lennar’s Next Gen Suite – the Ultimate Mother-in-Law
Evergreen Estates in Harker Heights, TX features Lennar homes with the Next Gen Suite, an apartment attached to the home with all the essentials.
Harker Heights Purser Family Park
Location: 100 W Mountain Lion Rd. Harker Heights, TX 76548 Hours: 5 AM – 11 PM Dog Park Hours: Sunrise – Sunset Purser Family Park is a much needed addition to the southwest side of Harker Heights, located on the south side of Stagecoach / Mountain Lion. The park is 35 acres with a creek […]
Fort Hood Area Inventory Is Shrinking
Is it a buyer’s market or a seller’s market? Is there a way to tell other than gut feelings and anecdotes about how quickly homes are selling or not? Of course. It’s called months of inventory (or absorption rate). Months of Inventory and Absorption Rates are the same thing. “Absorption Rate” is a term more […]
Harker Heights Community Park
Location: Harker Heights Community Park 1501 East FM 2410 Harker Heights, TX 76548 (254) 953-5657 (HH Recreation Center) Hours: Monday – Sunday, 5 AM to 11 PM Harker Heights Community Park is very well kept 62 acre park located near Harker Heights High School. Even though it is out of the way from where we […]