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 ...

The Dallas metro and the state of Texas rank near the top of the country for average home insurance premiums — thanks in part to the rise in extreme weather events. A study published earlier this ...

Texas is the third most expensive state for home insurance, with premiums climbing at an alarming pace amid growing climate threats and market pressures. Costs are especially taxing along the Gulf of ...

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 ...

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 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: ...

It is only a matter of time before the property insurance crisis, which has already affected California and Florida, reaches Texas, according to experts. As coverage becomes increasingly unaffordable ...

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 ...

Texas lawmakers have few options to drive down rising home insurance costs. Credit: Ishika Samant for The Texas Tribune DALLAS — Texas lawmakers hope to rein in homeowners’ rising insurance bills even ...

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 ...

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