Okay so new home sales numbers weren't reported to be up last week. So? First of all, the housing market is local in nature. If all politics is local as Tip O'Neill said, then real estate and housing is darn near skin-tight.

The Houston Chronicle reports of the spring opening of the 3rd YMCA of The Woodlands in the (still) new Village of Creekside Park, the first Village of The Woodlands on the south side of Spring Creek, which formally lands it in Harris County as opposed to the rest of The Woodlands in Montgomery County.

Toll Brothers, a publicly traded home building company, has earned the industry's top three awards, including America's Best Builder from the National Association of Home Builders, the National Housing Quality Award and Builder of the Year.

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