If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Please feel free to leave comments or search properties. From the Austin Real Estate Blog: in December, for the fourth month in a row, Austin real estate sales were up over the previous year. The average and median sales price [...]

The Austin Board of Realtors and the Home Builders Association of Greater Austin held a housing and economic forecast event Wednesday at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Cetner at UT. Eldon Rude of MetroStudy said that economic and housing fundamentals are the strongest among the more than 40 housing markets across the country, [...]

LovelyListing.com shows this interesting property at 507 Leland in Austin. Give me a call if you’re interested, I’d love a chance to show it!

According to the Austin Business Journal, the Austin-Round Rock area was named best performing city on the 2009 Milken Institute/Greenstreet Real Estate Partners Best Performing Cities Index. This is based on Austin’s ability to create and sustain jobs, considering metrics for employment, salary growth and technology output. “Texas’ strong position in our best performing cities [...]

Increase in housing starts are up for the month, but down 45% from a year ago. Not in Austin, but nationally, there is still a glut of homes on the market, many of which are foreclosures or distressed properties. The low interest rates and the $8,000 tax credit have had a major impact on the [...]

Austin is the best city to get a fresh start, according to Relocation.com (via Austin Business Journal). Austin’s at the top of a list “based on consumer requests for moving quotes to move to that city; economic-growth prospects; home affordability; and the strength of a community as reflected by volunteerism rates.”

Market activity is picking up – with interest rates still below 5%, with teh $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit, and with the decline in the number of homes available – our local market appears to be in balance. That’s a very good thing – that means buyers can buy and sellers can sell [...]

The Austin American-Statesman reports that average Travis County home appraisals rose an average 3.8% this year – still an increase, but the smallest in five years. How real is this? Reporters asked local real estate consultant Charles Heimsath, who noted that appraisals are based on the previous year’s sales, and in 2008 most sales occurred [...]

I attended the March 25th Texas Green Network meeting, where candidates for Austin City Council and Mayoral races discussed their green positions. Brief interviews with most of the candidates have been posted at the Austin Clean Energy blog. Please view these before you vote!

MSNBC.com has a travel piece, “25 reasons we love Austin, Texas.” Note especially #21, “there’s a party going on right now.” In fact I’m involved in one of those, the grand Plutopia party at the Palmer Events Center in downtown Austin. Dropping off now – it’s Thursday afternoon, the weekend’s getting started!