As reported by Forbe’s, the best bargain cities have been announced.  The news is good (again) for Austin as it makes the top spot on the list!  And again, Texas dominated the list taking 5 spots on this top 15 (really a top 17) list based on cost of living, housing opportunity, unemployment rate, and [...]

For an up-to-date Unemployment chart with the latest data, click here. The latest data on unemployment rates is out and available in interactive charts at http://AustinHome.Pro/data or http://AustinHome.Pro/statistics.  Austin shines yet again with a strikingly low unemployment rate, and national media has taken notice.  The great news is that unemployment rates have continued to drop [...]

mboxCreate(‘related_articles_bottom’,'market=austin’,'slug=daily42′,’issue_date=2009-04-13′,’position=bottom’); For the second consecutive month, Austin’s unemployment rate has decreased as the region tries to regain the losses it’s sustained in the recession. Austin added 5,100 jobs in the month of March, helping drop the metro area’s unemployment rate from 6.3 percent in February to 6.2 percent, according to the latest figures from the [...]

From the Austin Business Journal’s article “Job cuts down 19.3% in March”: The number of planned job cuts announced by U.S.-based employers fell 19.3 percent to 150,411 in March, according to a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. The number of announced layoffs had dropped 23 percent to 186,350 in February, said the global [...]