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 ...

According to the Texas Department of Insurance, homeowners' rates climbed nearly 19% in 2024, following a more than 21% spike in 2023. Texans pay some of the highest home insurance costs in the U.S.

A new Texas law effective January 1, 2026, mandates that insurance companies automatically provide written explanations for ...

The Texas housing market is hot. With four of the state's metro areas featured on U.S. News & World Report's top 10, there is no denying that Americans are flocking to Texas. However, it is no secret ...

The price of home insurance has increased everywhere in Texas from the coast to the Panhandle, and rates are now among the most expensive in the country. According to the Texas Department of Insurance ...

The Gulf Coast is a hotbed for extreme weather-related rising homeowners insurance costs, and the fourth-biggest city in the United States is experiencing the worst of it. Southeast Houston is among ...

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 ...

Ahead of next year’s legislative session, Texas lawmakers are hearing testimony about homeowners insurance rates. Tuesday, a Texas House Committee on State Affairs heard testimony about the rising ...

A tree fallen on the side of a home in Rosenberg during Hurricane Beryl. Fort Bend County residents whose homes were damaged by the storm can apply for tax relief. New homeowners in Texas may have to ...

Homeowners in Texas may have noticed that year-to-year, insurance premiums are increasing. A new report from LendingTree found that in Texas home insurance rates have increased by 54.5% over the past ...

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: ...

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 ...