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Buyers might find bargains among the more than 9,000 homes for sale in Central Texas, A record number of houses were on the market in Central Texas in March as sellers trying to catch an ebbing home market added nearly 3,400 houses to a growing inventory. A total of 9,219 houses were for sale, up 34 percent from a year ago. "I think we are beginning to see the effects of the cooling of the booming housing market we have seen over the past few years," said Jack Harris, a research economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryApril 12, 2003 President's Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Over the last several days, the world has watched as the regime of Saddam Hussein began passing into history. We will always remember the first images of a nation released from decades of tyranny and fear. The conflict continues in Iraq, and our military may still face hard fighting. Yet the statues of the dictator and all the works of his terror regime are falling away. From the beginning and to this very hour, members of the American and coalition forces have conducted...

When Bear Poth put his Rollingwood home on the market in October 2001, he expected to have no trouble finding a buyer willing to pay $419,000 for the house that has red oak floors, big windows and a canopy of live oak and pecan trees shading the pool. After 15 months and six price reductions, the price was $336,800. But still no takers. Poth's experience is extreme but not atypical in Central Texas, where sellers have had to lower their expectations to match a cooling market. Last year, the median sales price grew by 3 percent compared with 2001, to...