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Resale Market Changes — What a ride!

I have commented here and in other messages that the Austin-area residential market remains more unpredictable than we have experienced for much of this very long market cycle. In the coming days, I provided a complete update of my Market Dashboard with refined data from the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center, but this post … 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

Covid-19 — New State-wide Order

The State of Texas has issued new rules for working during the Covid-19 issue. Real estate services are correctly identified as being “essential.” Here are the rules and my general plans to proceed. Continue reading

Market Dashboard – Year-end 2019

If you follow media reports about residential real estate in the Greater Austin area you know that we are still in a very “unusual” market environment. “Crazy,” some might say. 2019 was the seventh full year of significant imbalance between housing demand and housing supply. Compare this market cycle to others over the past thirty years. Continue reading

Case-Shiller Index and Austin

In 2010 and 2011 the Case-Shiller cities experienced market weakness more dramatically than Austin did, and the Austin market maintained faster growth since the 2012 recovery than the Case-Shiller cities. Continue reading

Five Star Market Heat Index

The Real Estate HEAT (Housing Experts Anticipating Trends) Index
is a monthly leading indicator of nearly 40 housing markets in the
U.S. Five Star Professional partners with thousands of real estate agents who complete a weekly survey about the conditions they are observing in their marketplace. Continue reading

Update on “days on market”

Since 2014 Days to Sell has trended upward and selling has required more price reductions. It isn’t a concern at this point, but worth being aware of. Continue reading

Buyer Beware

The real estate industry has been battling wire fraud over the past few years. Here’s what you need to know. Continue reading

Price Variation Around Austin

In 2017 Outlook I promised to provide more information about how much home prices can vary from one area to another around the Greater Austin area.  I won’t get down to neighborhood-specific market activity in this post, but looking at the 5-county metropolitan area in pieces will paint a fairly complete picture. As a starting … 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

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