My wife and I recently decided to buy our first home together. For the past two years, we’ve been living in a two-bedroom townhouse in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood that I purchased in 2021, when I ...

Progressive is no longer offering home insurance to new homeowners in the Houston area after it decided to withdraw from Texas due to heavy weather-related losses. The insurance giant announced its ...

The insurance crisis affecting Texas, California and Florida has been well-documented. In the nation’s three most-populous states — home to more than a quarter of all U.S. residents — homeowners ...

Another company offering homeowner insurance in Texas will stop offering new policies in the state, per reports, in a move that's likely to exacerbate the sector's unfolding crisis. Progressive ...

Texas lawmakers have few options to drive down rising home insurance costs. (Ishika Samant For The Texas Tribune, Ishika Samant For The Texas Tribune) Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about ...

As lawmakers look for ways to rein in rising home insurance costs this session, they are without a key data point that most other states have: where homeowners are being dropped by their insurance ...

Massive wind damage from a powerful derecho that struck Houston and surrounding areas on May 16, 2024, and revealed critical gaps in homeowners’ insurance coverage, leaving many residents struggling ...

CLEAR LAKE, Texas (KTRK) -- John Cobarruvias fell in love with his Clear Lake neighborhood when he first moved there with his family in 1989. "It was just a perfect place for us and our kids and over ...

Another home insurer is pulling back in Texas as extreme weather events threaten properties across the state. Progressive Insurance is no longer writing new homeowner insurance policies in Texas, the ...

HOUSTON — Homeowners in the Houston area spent more than $2.2 billion on homeowners insurance last year, but many still aren’t fully protected. Whether you’re shopping for a new policy or reevaluating ...

HOUSTON — Jonathan Leopold is one of Houston’s newest homeowners. “The American dream. You know, work hard, save up some money and find a house to set some roots,” Leopold said. But the part of the ...

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