Lubbock Texas Homes

Lubbock's early morning temperature was 32 degrees!  The weatherman says that Lubbock's first freeze was at 4:10 this morning.  Brrrr.  And while Lubbock's temperatures fluctuate wildly, our housing market in Lubbock remains stable.  I love my job as a Lubbock Realtor!  Helping individuals and fa...

  Well, being a native West Texan I did not realize there was a term for 'enormous sand storm' that I didn't know.  Then two days ago a wall of dust, the leading edge of a cold front, blew into the city.  So the news folks were glibly using the term "haboob".  I googled the term and found it is a...

Welcome friends - it is Fall and our great Ransom Canyon home will soon be on the market.  We have loved living in Ransom Canyon but decided to move back into Lubbock.  Our 2800 sq ft. home is a 3/3/2, with large basement, inground pool, huge covered patio, 700+ square foot workshop.  You need o...

What me?  Mary Benton, a premier Lubbock Realtor?  I looked up the word 'premier' before using it as an adjective for myself.  One part of the Wikipedia definition is "leading" and I am comfortable with that and believe it to be entirely appropriate.  I am a REALTOR with Keller Williams Realty in...

I had the pleasure of walking through the Tech Terrace neighborhood, meeting some nice folks, last week - in the morning of course before it got so hot.  Walking any area in Lubbock, even one as lovely as Tech Terrace, isn't much fun when the temperature is in triple digits!  If you see me roamin...

There is a great Lakeridge home that is going up for auction.  This home has been listed and withdrawn, and then it has been a HUD home owned by Fannie Mae but still the home did not sell.  The primary problem is likely the location in that the home sits on a corner lot on 98th Street just a few...

Straight from the IRS to the citizens!  Here are their top 10 tax tips for home sellers: (found on the IRS websiet as IRS Summertime Tax Tip 2011-15). 1. In general, you are eligible to exclude the gain from income if you have owned and used your home as your main home for two years out of the fi...

Hey, if you are getting all your back to school shopping done, it would be nice to know what date to send the kids back to school!  Lubbock ISD has their school calendar's in a couple of different formats.  Just go to Lubbockisd.org.  On the left side of the page you will find 'calendars' on the ...

So far Auctions for Homes in Lubbock have been few and far between.  It is fascinating to follow some of the homes up for auction in other parts of the state.  I did drive out south of town a few months ago and saw an amazing country home that was being auctioned.  This particular Lubbock County ...

Praise the Lord that it rained in Lubbock yesterday.  We had no appreciable/measurable rain since last October.  Bad news is the rain came in pretty fast and our ground was so hard...lots of run off and some street flooding.  Still, needed the rain mucho. Beginning a house hunt for myself and hub...