Austin is the nation’s top housing market according to Zillow, which again puts buyers in troubled water when it comes to getting a home here. In Zillow’s report, Austin is ranked number one outperformer of the nation, and we are certainly seeing the carnage of this 2021 prophecy on the Read more…
What is happening to Austin real estate prices during the COVID-19 crisis?
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…
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…
If you’re thinking of buying or selling an Austin home in 2015 you’re probably asking what the market will do this year. After last year’s shock headlines that Austin was 19% overvalued (good link bait Zillow!) there was a second report released in December that claimed Austin was 20% overvalued Read more…