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I haven’t presented my complete market dashboard for a while, but final data for December is available now and I want to share the results for the year in context with the rest of this very long market cycle. This chart shows the extreme changes in our supply-and-demand picture in 2025, with the number of … Continue reading
I have written several times in recent months about the uncertain environment we’ve seen in Austin-area residential real estate. Now, early in the new year, I want to highlight a few headlines that amplify that confusing situation. First, this article summarizes year-end sales results across the United States and in large, multi-state regions: Lower Mortgage … Continue reading
In 2025 Resale Results I discussed resale home prices during the past ten years, with a focus on the frantic market environment we experienced in 2022 and 2023. In this post I’ll add a look at home builders’ participation during that time, and the changing market conditions before and after. First, the blue line in … Continue reading
In Happy New Year — a look back I shared an article that summarized our experience in Austin-area residential real estate last year. Final data from the Texas Real Estate Research Center will be available in a couple of weeks, but using our MLS system we can look more closely at activity involving existing (resale) … Continue reading
Happy New Year! I trust your resolutions are in order and that you’re off to a great start today. I’ll have more to say about last year when final data is available for December market activity, but for today I’ll share a recent article from the Austin American-Statesman: ‘Meh’: Austin’s housing market cooled in 2025, … Continue reading
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
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
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