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?
This summer has been a great season for real estate in Texas, to say the least. An in-depth survey by the Austin Board of REALTORs shows that across the board, the Central Texas real estate market has just been through its best summer selling season since records began. For four 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…