Howe housing market

tographed for their tradeshows and this year’s catalog,” said French. “We should have this piece of equipment in our possession within the next 14 days and the engineers will be out before that to start doing their drawings and layout in the park.” French said the reason for moving the money from reserves was for the timing of being able to purchase it immediately. The city council approved the moving of $50,000 from the reserves and also approved a note with Independent Bank for that amount so that the $50,000 will go back into the reserves and the note will be paid over a 2-year period.

“Our line item budget will cover more than what we will be paying for it,” Two years ago, a fundraiser was held for improvements to Memorial Park in which $5,750 was raised with donations from the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce, Provider Business Partners, Amanda Garner, CPA, Atmos Energy, and Baker Air Conditioning & Heating. Those funds have been secured in the Howe Development Foundation account awaiting the use and will be used towards the completion of the upcoming project.

“We will have the only one of these (equipment) north of Dallas,” said French. “This was a demo model that they had. This was a take-it-as-it-is, that’s why it’s so cheap,” said French. “It’s not used, but it is a demo item that saves us $70,000 in cost.” 211 W. Duke Street is listed for sale for $410,000. The 5-bedroom home was

the former address of Mr. and Mrs. James Chisum. Courtesy photo.

Most everyone knows that the market has exploded in North Texas this year and in Howe, the typical home value as reported by Zillow) has increased from $236,448 a year ago to today’s $312,070. The forecasted value increase is 8.2 percent. There are currently 49 homes for sale in the 75459 zip code with 10 recently selling.