Texas seems to have a stable steady real estate market, not as vulnerable to the national volatile up and down price swings.
Here is a 4 minute video from the Texas A&M University Real Estate Research Center.
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http://recenter.tamu.edu/video/videoPlayer.asp?vid=12

It might help to summarize the Texas real estate market

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