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Bill Morris, Realtor

Many years of business experience (high tech, client service, business organization and start-up, including almost 20 years in real estate) tell me that service is the key to success and I look forward to serving you. I represent both buyers and sellers throughout the Austin metropolitan area, which means first-hand market knowledge is brought to bear on serving your needs. Learn more about my background and experience, my commitment to my clients, my profession, and to the real estate industry at CentralTexasHomeSearch.com.
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Austin Real Estate 2025: Market Shift Explained

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 →

How Home Sales Distribution Shifted from 2011 to 2024

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 →

Austin Market Dashboard — “if-fy” 2025

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 →

U.S. Markets in 2025 – pricing is a challenge

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 →

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Austin Market Dashboard Insights

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 →

Tepid Home Sales Nationwide

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 →

Buyer and Seller Insights Amid Austin’s 2025 Market Shift

If you’re participating in the market now — as a home buyer, seller, or real estate professional — you’ll recognize the market environment depicted by the latest statistics: Homes are selling, but not robustly. Showings in most areas are slow, with many sellers concerned about activity, buyers uncertain about the direction of the market and … Continue reading →

Austin Real Estate Market April 2025 Insights

I haven’t provided a comprehensive look at the Austin-area residential market since Timing and Pricing: Key Insights for Austin Home Sellers, but Jeff Osborne, broker/owner of Realty Capital City shared very important insights in a meeting yesterday that I want to share. For the big picture, this chart says a lot: The number of active … Continue reading →

Impact of Economic Slowdown on Housing Market Trends

What an Economic Slowdown Could Mean for the Housing Market Talk about the economy is all over the news, and the odds of a recession are rising this year. That’s leaving a lot of people wondering what it means for the value of their home – and their buying power. Let’s take a look at … Continue reading →

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