DALLAS — Texas lawmakers hope to rein in homeowners’ rising insurance bills even as they acknowledge there’s only so much they can do to tackle costs. Legislators have advanced bills to limit how much ...

Texas homeowners’ insurance rates are rising fast, and there is little the Texas Legislature or anyone else can do to slow them down. Average premiums for Texans have jumped 43% since 2023 and will ...

A damaged piano remains within other debris collected after a tornado moved through Valley View in May 2024. Multiple people were killed in Texas and many others injured around the Denton-Cooke County ...

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 ...

Texas has some of the highest rates for homeowners' insurance in the country. Whether you’re insuring a new property or just want to compare rates and discounts for your current home, it is worth ...

AUSTIN, Texas — New data shows Texas home insurance premiums are up 27% over the past three years. According to a study from the Consumer Federation of America, the average homeowners’ insurance ...

Texas Lawmakers continue to look at ways to cut property taxes and increase homestead exemptions, but there’s another part of the home affordability equation that’s also key to driving costs down: ...

Around a decade ago, Kat and Giles Roberts bought a three-thousand-square-foot house in Clear Lake, the southeast Texas town on Galveston Bay that is best known as the home of NASA’s Johnson Space ...

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