Economics

How Harvey Will Affect Houston’s Housing Market

  • Prices for homes not damaged by the flood waters heading up
  • Rental market could also see inflation amid supply crunch

Camden Living CEO: Harvey Changed Houston Housing

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Just a week after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston, Irma Jalifi was doing something that might sound crazy: writing an offer on a home.

In fact, Jalifi, a real-estate agent with Redfin, put in offers on not one but three Houston houses Tuesday at their asking prices -- two at $1 million and a three-bedroom at $450,000 -- as the new economics of Houston housing began to take hold.