If you’ve ever borrowed money in the United States, there’s a fair chance that EquiFax have some information about you. There’s also a good chance that you’re one of the 145 million people affected by their recent data breach. What EquiFax data was stolen and how does it affect me? Read more…
I hold both a UK and a US passport, and I was quite shocked to wake up on Friday to realize that the citizens of the UK narrowly voted in favor of severing economic and political ties with the European Union. Whatever your personal opinions on Brexit, you’ll be curious Read more…
The Austin Board of Realtors have released their Multiple Listing Service statistics for single family home sales in April – could this be the beginning of the big slowdown in the superheated market? If you look past the “more houses, higher price” headlines, you can see that the number of Read more…
A good friend of mine is writing a series of articles about the apparent dwindling affordability of housing in Austin, and asked me to research the values of all the homes she’s lived in over the last 30 years here. In lieu of that exercise, I test the data to Read more…
The Austin Board of Realtors say that median home sale prices have risen by 13 per cent year-over-year and the average price has risen 14 per cent. Since the two measures are close in number, in essence it means individual houses are becoming more expensive to buy. It’s only when Read more…
I didn’t particularly want to find out where Hobbit actor Elijah Wood lives in Austin, but it seems that new Multiple Listing Service tools make it particularly easy. A well known local brokerage has just unveiled its “Austin Home Sales Price” portion of its website, and I found it only Read more…