Lake Travis Real Estate Blog

Austin Area Housing Market Data For April Still Shows Prices Rising, Sales Trending Upward

There are lots of different ways to look at the Austin housing market. Some make it look frightening, some are much more optimistic. To me there are three things that present a meaningful indicator of the overall health of the Austin, Lake Travis, Cedar Read More...

IRS Relaxes Rules Regarding Capital Gain on a Primary Residence Owned for Less Than Two Years Under Certain Circumstances

Tierra Grande, a publication from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M discusses some recent changes in the IRS Tax Code regarding capital gains and includes some examples of how they apply. A portion of the article follows: Tax rules for home sales Read More...

Forbes Ranks Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio Among America's 10 Recession Proof Communities

A recent Forbes.com article placed the four largest cities in our great state in their list of "10 Recession Proof Communities". To reach their findings, Forbes.com examined the 50 largest U.S metro areas and examined several key indices. They Read More...

Austin Tops U.S. News and World Report's "10 Greenest Places to Retire" List!

Think living in Austin is like a permanent vacation? I agree, and we're not alone. A recent article in U.S. News and World Report cited Austin among the "10 Greenest Places to Retire". With so many wilderness preserves and parks, Austin Read More...

Macfarlan Seeds $1B Plan With Centex Resorts and Aquires Three Second Home and Resort Properties in Texas including The Hollows on Lake Travis, The Waters at Horseshoe Bay and Pointe West in Galveston

An article published today on GlobeSt.com, a Web site providing "Commercial Real Estate News and Property Resource" reported that Dallas-based Macfarlan Capital Partners LP, whom they referred to as "an industry-recognized contrarian" Read More...

Macfarlan Capital Partners Announces Purchase of The Hollows, The Waters and Pointe West in Texas, Bear Lake in North Carolina and Southpeak on Loon Mountain in New Hampshire

COPY OF THE PRESS RELEASE MACFARLAN CAPITAL PARTNERS ANNOUNCE PURCHASE OF CENTEX DESTINATION PROPERTIES ASSETS Macfarlan Forms TerraMesa Resorts to Manage Exclusive Destinations andSecond Home Communities Located on Lakes, Ocean front and Mountains DALLAS, Read More...

The New York Times Says 'Some Cities Are Spared the Slide in Housing' - Austin is Among Them!

February 15, 2008 By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and RON NIXON AUSTIN , Tex. — The real estate market these days is a tale of two Americas, and one of them is not doing too badly. In the America of big-city housing markets, especially on the coasts and in the Read More...

Austin #1 in "America's Fastest-Growing Metros" according to Forbes Magazine "Best Places"

Best Places America's Fastest-Growing Metros Brian Wingfield and William Pentland 01.30.08, 2:20 PM ET It's no secret that the Southeast and Western United States are booming. The costs of living and doing business there are often cheaper there Read More...

New-home Construction Rate Rises Finally but Not Up to the Rates of Last Year

I n a report today, The Austin Business Journal wrote that after a cautious slowdown in new construction late in 2006 and early this year, Austin homebuilders are forging ahead, starting more than 1,100 more homes during the second quarter of 2007 than Read More...