New Year, New Home: How To Make It Happen in 2025 This is the time when a lot of people take a moment to reflect and set their goals for this year. And as you picture what you want your 2025 to look like, one thing that may pop into your mind is the vision … Continue reading
Wrapping up 2024, this post offers a variety of views of the future: Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to a good year in 2025 and wish you all the best!
Friends, Many of you may remember Christmas videos from years past. My schedule this year has kept me from putting that together but I don’t want to miss wishing you all the best for Christmas and for the New Year to come. I am grateful for your trust and friendship and I look forward to … Continue reading
Looking forward to 2025 — a positive outlook, but with uncertainty. Continue reading
In the few days before Thanksgiving I several versions of this story, but the original was from the National Association of REALTORS®: Existing-Home Sales Grew 3.4% in October; First Year-Over-Year Gain Since July 2021 Here are some highlights: Existing-home sales climbed 3.4% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.96 million. Sales advanced … Continue reading
I just posted this to CentralTexasHomeSearch.com: What’s ahead for real estate in 2025? I’ll write more soon to focus on the Austin area, but the national outlook described in that article is imnportant,
In Latest Data on Austin Residential Market Trends, I commented that home prices in our metropolitan area have been down in recent months and remain far below the peak we saw in 2022. In contrast, Yahoo!finance published this article this week: To the moon! Case-Shiller home price index hits another record high This paragraph summarizes: … Continue reading
A few weeks ago (Monthly Price Update), I provided an update on the Austin-area residential market, with data complete through July. Now, August data is available from the Texas Real Estate Research Center, and I have updated my market dashboard: Data through July showed that median and average prices were down on an annualized basis … Continue reading
One month ago (Market Dashboard and Case-Shiller Index) I wrote that average and median sale prices in the Austin metropolitan area remain significantly below their peaks in May 2022. The Case-Shiller cities, on the other hand, peaked at the same time and fell as our market did, but then recovered over the following year. This … Continue reading