A few days ago, REALTOR® Magazine published Could a Real Estate Sales Shift Be Ahead This Fall?, suggesting that after a “lackluster summer … the fall season could breathe new life into the housing market.” The article continues, “A recent housing report suggests more listings, lower prices and less competition could be coming this fall, … Continue reading
Housing affordability is a frequent topic of conversation since the pandemic era and the changes in home prices and mortgage interest rates that followed. Because of our experience in Central Texas with the boom time in 2021 and 2022, it’s easy to believe that we’re in the only place that is now suffering with affordability … Continue reading
Among several posts I have written this year, a few have offered insights of how much the Austin area’s market environment has changed in 2025: U.S. Markets in 2025 — pricing is a challenge included a graph that showed that home prices in the Austin metropolitan area experienced the largest year-over-year decrease among 50 large … Continue reading
As you have seen in my posts during 2025, this has been an unsettled market environment. It continues to be so. A view of the market that I have not provided yet this year is the distribution of home sales across various price ranges. This chart shows how our price distribution has changed since 2011, … Continue reading