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More on Austin-area Home Prices

A few days ago I posted a look at how the price distribution of homes sales in the Austin Metropolitan area have changed over the past several years.  Now, I want to break that down by city within the region, focusing just on reported sale prices in 2018. Continue reading

Home Prices in Austin

Although the pace of price appreciation has slowed, it is still a very real part of our market environment and will likely continue for at least another year or two.  As part of my look back at our real estate market, it’s worth seeing how home price distribution has changed in the Austin metro area over the past eight years: Continue reading

Confirmation?

Jim Gaines, chief economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, said the June sales dip is not an indication that the Austin-area housing market is cooling off. Continue reading

Austin Market Price Distribution

Here’s an updated look at the overall distribution of residential sale prices across the Austin metropolitan area.  Continue reading

So how much does housing cost in Austin? (Part 2)

There are significant variations in pricing within each county where most of the metro population lives, but there are cities in each county where a below-$200,000 purchase is still realistic. Continue reading

So how much does housing cost in Austin? (Part 1)

Market-wide price changes are the result of changes in the distribution of prices across many price ranges. Here’s a look at how the price distribution for homes sold in the Austin metropolitan area have changed. Continue reading

2015 Market Summary

The real world of our fast-paced real estate market in Austin makes this post a couple of weeks later than I planned, but following up on my recent summary of Angelou Economics view of our community, I want to add a quick look at the residential market specifically. If you have attention to local media … Continue reading

Lake Area homes – hot market?

The Austin metro area has become a famous real estate market over the past couple of years — hot, hot, hot!!! Multiple offers and very quick sales are frustrating for prospective buyers, many of whom make offers for several homes before successfully getting one under contract.  These market conditions can also be discouraging to would-be … Continue reading

Another “over-valued” report

There is a difference between home prices being bid up to unrealistic levels through shear speculation, and the way Central Texas home values are being driven by real supply and demand forces, supported by strong employment and population growth and buying power provided by a still very conservatiove mortgage lending industry. Continue reading

More on Austin-area prices and affordability

How much do homes really cost here? In the metro area, the highest average and median prices are in neighborhoods near the close-by south shore of Lake Travis, not in the city itself. At the other end of the market, there are six suburban cities with average and median home prices at or below $200,000. Continue reading