U.S. HOME SALES FALL BIGTIME, TEXAS STILL A-OK

U.S. home sales fell bigtime in 2006, the biggest plunge in 17 years according to real estate gurus at Texas A&M University. Texas, as Steve Brown tells us at the end of all his stories, did okay. No huge gains, but we actually sold more homes in Texas in ‘06 than ever before. Which makes you wonder: Could we have done even better with lower property taxes?