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Is the Central Texas Housing Market Stabilizing in 2025?

Looking forward to 2025 — a positive outlook, but with uncertainty. Continue reading

Existing Home Sales Up?

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: I have written more than once in recent months that our experience in the Austin-area market was … Continue reading

Case-Shiller Still Up While Austin Pauses

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

Austin Home Price Distribution

Last summer I posted a look at the distribution of home sale prices in the Austin metropolitan area (Update: Austin home price distribution). That view of prices through the first half of 2023 showed how the imbalance of housing supply and demand drove prices higher in 2022, and that market forces were calming the environment … Continue reading

Market Dashboard Update

For several months I haven’t provided a comprehensive update of the market metrics I track in my dashboard. I won’t have refined data from the Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M for the whole first half of 2024 for a few more weeks, but this quick look will be useful: In case you haven’t … Continue reading

2023 – Year-end roundup

From the Austin Board of REALTORS®, I am glad to share some key statistics to summarize our residential real estate market as of the end of 2023. First, here’s how the entire 12-month period compared to the previous year, and how December 2023 compared to the same month in 2022: Notice that in the year-to-date view … Continue reading

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