Real Estate In Austin Blog

Just how high are mortgage payments?  Obviously, the biggest story in US real estate over the past 18 months has been the rise of mortgage ...

A double wide on an acre.  It was the very first home I sold as a brand new real estate agent.  I started back in 1999 outside of Houston ...

The biggest Powerball winner has been buying real estate.  Edwin Castro, who won the $2.04 billion lottery drawing in November, claimed his ...

Austin wants people to live in RVs and tiny homes.  At a city council meeting on September 14th, the council instructed staff to draft an ...

A foreclosure wave is coming!  Well, that’s been a persistent claim for a few years and I disagree big time.  Yes, the market across ...

Big zoning changes in Austin?  Not so fast!  For over 10 years, the Austin City Council has been trying to bring denser housing to the city....

The stats I’m providing are resale homes only in Travis and Williamson Counties.  More about the stats at the end.  To receive the ...

We’re house rich!  That’s right, as a country, we have over $31.5 Trillion worth of equity in our homes.  That’s ...

The sales stats look fantastic for August, but this set of data is exactly why we can't rely on one month worth of sales to understand what's ...

Good luck building in Austin. Seriously, the permit process in the city has been a mess for a long time. The consulting firm McKinsey & Company ...

College kids are paying higher rents.  If you’ve got kids in college, odds are they moved off campus after the first year.  This ...