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I have written extensively in recent months about the difficult market conditions we’re facing in Austin-area residential real estate in 2025. (See Austin Real Estate 2025: Market Shift Explained and Fall 2025: A Shift to Buyer-Friendly Real Estate) All of this very long market cycle, which began in 2013, has been characterized by very low … Continue reading
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
It has been two months since I updated my market dashboard for you (Austin Market Dashboard Updates, July 1, 2025), so this post is past due. For those of us who are actively involved in the market as brokers, agents, or home sellers or buyers, this data won’t be especially surprising, but if you haven’t … Continue reading
In my latest e-newsletter (Market Trends Continue) I shared some insights about real estate challenges affecting local and regional markets nationally. Today I have much more information about the broad U.S. environment. Much of it focuses on the role that new construction plays now in the larger residential market, but I want to share a … Continue reading
I have provided a number of updates on the Austin-area residential market over the past few months, but it has been longer than usual since I discussed the market dashboard that I have used for guidance for many years. Just to start, this long-term view is helpful to contrast today’s market environment across 35 years … Continue reading
About a week ago, in Buyer and Seller Insights Amid Austin’s 2025 Market Shift, I told you that the market for existing (resale) homes in the Austin metro area is challenging. Listing inventory is up, sales are down compared to one year ago, and prices have failed to rise year-over-year. Today, the National Association of … Continue reading
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