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Beautiful Lake Travis Condo!

This beautiful condo just minutes from Lake Travis is a MUST SEE! Continue reading

Housing affordability in Austin

Austin most expensive rent in TX. As is generally true, press reports are best served with context.
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Beautiful Texas Hill Country Panorama!

Spectacular hilltop building site! Continue reading

Housing Recovery — yes … no … maybe?

News reports about the national economy and the national real estate market should be the starting point for analysis, not the end. Of course, we are susceptible to some national trends, but we also have our own local and regional strengths. Just like some companies fail while others thrive in difficult times, local and regional economies have comparative advantages and disadvantages, and optimism for the Austin/Central Texas area has been widely reported. Continue reading

Austin — a model for job creation

“Austin is emerging as one of the first pockets of the country where people are getting back to work ….” Continue reading

Home and 15 Acres near Georgetown, Texas

Home on 15 unrestricted acres — convenient to Georgetown and easy access to transportation arteries to Austin or points beyond. Continue reading

Distressed properties, distressed sellers

Don’t wait until it’s too late to admit you can’t keep up with your mortgage payments. Call me! Continue reading

More Central Texas history

The James Gang visited a lot of places, but it’s interesting that they stopped in Rockdale, about an hour northeast of Austin, to see a former gang member. Continue reading

Employment — this is more than just semantics!

There is a difference between comparing employment from month to month, and comparing to the same month in a previous year. The Austin metro area gained jobs on a month-to-month basis for 8 of the 12 months from February 2009 through January 2010. Continue reading

They’re doing it again!

While Austin has certainly felt the effects of the recession, I see good news in the TWC data. Admittedly, I am a “glass is half full” kind of guy, but I can’t figure out how to interpret that actual data negatively! Continue reading

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