Austin Real Estate Report
Austin-area real estate market shows improvement over last year
Austin Board of REALTORS® releases September 2009 real estate statistics
October 19, 2009 – According to the September 2009 Multiple Listing Service report by the Austin Board of REALTORS®, activity in the Austin-area real estate market has shown signs of improvement from September 2008.
In September [...]
September sales numbers & statistics are in for Austin housing and it’s official, our back-log of inventory is shaking out. We now have fewer months of inventory (calculated based on how long it is predicted to take to sell all of the homes currently for sale in Austin) than we had in 2003 after the [...]
By Alan Zibel and Alex Veiga
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, October 24, 2009
WASHINGTON — Racing to complete their purchases before a tax credit for first-time owners expires, homebuyers pushed sales up last month by the largest amount in more than 26 years.
After jumping 9.4 percent in September, home resales are up nearly 24 percent from [...]
A note from the Austin Home Pro…
The Austin real estate market has long been the economist’s stronghold on optimism, because our strong local economy centered in an economically strong state continues to beat the “doom and gloom” odds. Despite falling home prices around the nation, Austin has held strong. Due to Austin’s slow and steady [...]
Home Seller’s Guide to Getting it Sold NOW
Things are picking up, but are still slow. We rarely see a buyer’s market in Austin, but right now the tables are turned. There are a few things you can do to put yourself ahead of the game so that the first home to sell in your area [...]
If you’ve been wanting to take advantage of the $8000 First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit don’t put it off much longer! You must use this credit by December 1st, but don’t wait until the last minute because you must CLOSE on your new home by December 1st!
Here’s the basics, you can read more in-depth details [...]
Where to be an Entrepreneur?
Austin tops the list in Entrepreneur!
The Cross-Pollinator: Austin, Texas
“What you have to realize about Austin is that it’s a city of scenes,” explains Bijoy Goswami, founder of the in-person and online community Bootstrap Austin, and Austin’s entrepreneurial culture guru. “We have a music scene, a food scene, a film scene, a [...]
National, Texas, Austin Median Home Sales Price
Here is the latest and greatest (and most accurate data out there) for you to visualize the trends you hear and read about.
About the real estate data & statistics on my site:
I’ve received emails about how my graphs look differently that Zillow’s/Trulia’s, and believe me, those websites’ notoriously inaccurate [...]
Dynamic Austin Real Estate Market Health Chart
Here is the latest and greatest (and most accurate data out there) for you to visualize the trends you hear and read about.
About the real estate data & statistics on my site:
I’ve received emails about how my graphs look differently that Zillow’s/Trulia’s, and believe me, those websites’ notoriously inaccurate [...]
I was recently interviewed by Fox 7 news regarding a new Craigslist scam that used my own home (that is for sale) as bait. Moral of the story is be careful who you’re dealing with!
