SAN ANTONIO HOMES TODAY

George Strait is selling a crown jewel of Texas Hill Country real estate, having listed his San Antonio home for $8.9 million.

These intriguing homes may have been abandoned and forgotten, but their skeletons still bear traces of past beauty. We take a peek and dream about restoring them to their former glory.

"If we make it three weeks in our market, there is something wrong," said Darlene Umina, a real estate agent in the Boston area. "These days, you know within the first weekend whether the price was right." The median home price has shot up almost 9% in the past year to $561,300 in Boston, according to Zillow.

Selling a home without a real estate agent is like handling your own legal matter. Here are 8 things homesellers risk without an agent.

Phoenix Commotion's Cowboy Boot House in Huntsville, Texas, would be a roomy upgrade for the old woman who lived in a shoe

Around 40 light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets have been spotted orbiting closely around a small, ultra-cool star. It’s one of the largest solar systems that’s ever been discovere

San Antonio, TX is easily one of the biggest military cities in the U.S., and because of that, the cost of living in this Lone Star town is one of the best in the South. “There’s also steady supply and demand for homes,” explains Lisa Sinn, a real estate agent with Keller Williams. “That means home prices are more affordable.” Added to the low cost of living are the steady job opportunities from major employers such as USAA, Toyota, and H-E-B (grocery store chain), making it easy to see why San Antonio’s on Trulia’s radar. “The culture here is also extremely diverse,” adds Sinn, who notes the city’s culture and history are added bonuses to San Antonio residents.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency raised the conforming loan limit from $417,000 to $424,100, the first increase since 2006.

As agent popularity soared, for-sale-by-owner sales scraped an all-time low of 8 percent of all sales, according to the National Association of Realtors.

See photos of the San Antonio house being sold by Spurs star Manu Ginobili.

'Game of Thrones' Riverrun Castle for sale

Real estate pro Ellis Young recently added “NOT HAUNTED” to a For Sale sign in front of his 3,600-square-foot listing in Manvel, Texas, and says it's making an impact on his marketing campaign. Use Humor in Real Estate: A Good Reason to Laugh The home had been on the market for a month but wasn’t gaining much traction.

The last thing you want your home to smell like is cat poop and roses

First listed for $4.2 million in 2015, the "Flintstones House" has undergone two price chops since then.

A CultureMap analysis finds that 5.9 percent of San Antonio-area single-family homes are situated on at least 5 acres.

Our real estate market recap of everything that happened the week of December 27-30, 2016.

Above all, she said, the most important component is communication — when in doubt, pick up the phone and call your real estate agent. Make sure to use the phone number on their business card as opposed to an email signature, in case the scammer has changed that as well.

The world can be a strange place, as this collection of crazy-looking houses proves. Fancy living in a shoe? A golf ball? A UFO, perhaps? Well apparently you can. Click on to find out where.

First-timers helped drive one of the best months NAR has seen yet. But our latest poll showed it takes coaching and patience to reap the rewards.

Below are four myths that clients might express about the real estate appraisal process and the facts real estate agents can share with them.

10711 Strait Ln, Dallas, TX 75229 a single family home is 21,000 Sq. Ft., 8 beds, and 22 baths. Visit 27 photos on realtor.com(R), listing value of $32,347,000.

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