Pearland, TX

Since Hurricane Ike, there is an increasing need for wildlife assistance in the Greater Houston region, and Wildlife Rehab and Education is a nonprofit organization that was formed to meet this need. Staff and volunteers care for orphaned and injured wildlife. Donations of fruit, vegetables, and shelled nuts help feed the migratory birds and squirrels. Volunteers are needed to help rehabilitate animals which are to be returned to the wild. Contact Volunteer Houston Bay Area at 281-282-6034 or www.volunteerhouston.org for more information.

www.StagingSmartNSold.com offers Houston home staging expertise designed for a rapid and profitable house sale to area Realtors and homeowners. The owner is also a long time volunteer in the Houston Bay Area.

Home Instead Senior Care is partnering with the Walmarts at Dixie Farm in Pearland, and at El Dorado in Clear Lake to sponsor "Be Santa To A Senior". Other partners are the Bay Area Meals on Wheels, the Seabrook, Bacliff and La Porte Senior Centers, and the Friendswood Chamber of Commerce. From now until December 19, volunteers are asked to purchase gifts for seniors, or participate in gift wrapping parties. Visit www.beasantatoasenior.com for more information.

www.StagingSmartNSold.com provides Pearland home staging expertise for a rapid and profitable house sale for area Realtors and homeowners. The owner is also a volunteer in the Houston Bay Area.

Volunteer Houston has many opportunities for persons wishing to volunteer this holiday season. For example, play bridge on Tuesday afternoons with residents of a nursing home near the Astrodome, or help with patients in the radiology section of a Spring Branch hospital, or transport dogs and cats to a pet adoption station in Pearland on weekends, or serve meals at the annual Thanksgiving Feast at the George R. Brown Convention Center. For these opportunities and more, visit www.volunteerhouston.org or call 713-965-0031.

www.StagingSmartNSold.com provides Pearland home staging expertise for a rapid and profitable house sale to area Realtors and homeowners. The owner is also a volunteer in the Houston Bay Area.

The 21st annual Craft Fair will be held on Friday, October 17 and Saturday, October 18 from 10am until 5 pm at St Andrew's Episcopal Church, 2535 East Broadway (FM 518 near Lowe's Home Improvement)in Pearland. You will find over fifty vendors selling unique items, and you can select a pumpkin from the Pumpkin Patch. Call the church office at 281-485-3843 or visit www.standrewspearland.org/craftfaire.htm for more information.

www.StagingSmartNSold.com provides Pearland home staging expertise designed to promote a rapid and profitable house sale to area Realtors and homeowners.

The Pearland TX real estate market is doing OK. In looking at the real estate market in Pearland, one can see we are following the same trend as the last 2 years. The median price is only off by $200000 from an all time high in 2006. September tends to be the start of the winter slow down and and things tend to start picking back up in late December.

In looking at the next chart on the Pearland Real Estate Market, you can see the DOM or Days on Market are trending up. It takes 29% longer to sell a house in Pearland today than it took in 2006. It takes on average 102 to sell a house in Pearland today. You, as a home seller can affect this average by the price you set your house at. If you price your home on the high side of the average, it will take longer to sell and if you price you house one low side of the average, it will sell faster.

Now is a GREAT time to buy real estate in the Pearland area.

For more information on buying or selling property in Texas, I invite you to visit http://www.texasrealestate.com/ or http://www.har.com/ and for all of your Pearland TX and Northern Brazoria and Galveston County real estate needs, please visit my site at http://www.danfrankrealty.com. Danny Frank is a local Pearland Real Estate expert. I would love to help you sell your house and help you find your next home.