TEXAS \u2014 The Texas Hill Country is known for beautiful riverfront properties, but last July\u2019s flooding along the Guadalupe River has affected buyers and sellers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis building was the first structure after the previous big flood,\u201d said Laura Fore, owner and broker of Fore Premier Properties.<\/p>\n
After surviving last summer\u2019s flood, a building from 1932 in Hunt, Texas, is still standing.<\/p>\n
About four and a half feet of water and mud got inside Fore Premier Properties\u2019 office, as the Fourth of July flooding changed lives forever and caused uncertainty for realtors.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany sellers temporarily removed their properties from the market while they assessed damage,\u201d Fore said. \u201cWe had buyers that understandably took a pause from the market.\u201d<\/p>\n
With transactions ending, real estate broker Laura Fore said there\u2019s no question that the 2025 flooding affected local real estate.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur focus really changed from real estate transactions to helping clients navigate insurance claims and putting their properties back together,\u201d Fore said.<\/p>\n
But the flood was just one of many factors contributing to changes in the market.<\/p>\n
\u201cResulting from concerns about interest rates, affordability concerns and a heightened level of inventory. So, all those factors were already in play,\u201d Fore said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One year later, Fore says clients are more aware of flood risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuyers asking a lot more questions,\u201d Fore said. \u201cSellers that understand the importance of transparency and documentation. Of course, the number one question is, \u2018Did this property flood and how badly?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The Insurance Fairness Project revealed only 3% of damaged homes in Kerr County had flood insurance, so agents are getting questions about property drainage, insurance and elevation certificates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are buyers coming in and, believe it or not, many of them are interested in Guadalupe River frontage,\u201d Fore said. \u201cThe thing is, they just want to understand the property.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fore said thankfully there wasn\u2019t a mass exodus from the community after the flood, and the real estate market is finally normalizing.<\/p>\n
\u201cA very dark time, but also very encouraging to see just how truly resilient the Texas Hill Country really is,\u201d said Fore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 The Texas Hill Country is known for beautiful riverfront properties, but last July\u2019s flooding along the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21023,14209,132,134,133,1570,102,138,223,82,27,1659,1569,835],"class_list":["post-359090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-amber-hughes","tag-app-human-interest","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-floods","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}