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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...
How to Protest Your Preliminary 2008 Travis, Williamson or Hays County Tax Appraisal - Important Information About How and Where to Begin!
I've been getting a lot of inquiries and thought I'd pass along this information for anyone who might need it. Important Information About Your 2008 Tax Appraisal Check your mail: Appraisal notices in Travis and Williamson County have been mailed Read More...
Price Reduced AGAIN on 17800 Maritime Point #202 in Hollows At Northshore - Named Best Master Planned Community in Austin 2008
Hollows At Northshore, Jonestown - Announcing a price reduction on 17800 Maritime Point #202, a 1,245 sq. ft., 2 bath, 3 bdrm single story. Now $375,000 - Hollows Hilltop Condo. This Hollows Hilltop Villa condo is an extraordinary value. It features custom Read More...
Austin Business Journal Names The Hollows at Northshore on Lake Travis as the Austin Area's "Best Master Planned Community" for 2008
Move over Steiner Ranch! There's a new place to live that offers a completely unique and exciting lifestyle! An article in a special section of today's issue of The Austin Business Journal names The Hollows at Northshore , an exclusive luxury 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...
Austin Business Journal Reports - Study says tougher financing could kill some Austin condo projects
The Austin Business Journal reports that a new research report questions whether some of the new condo projects projected for Central Austin will move forward under their original timelines, or at all, given the decline of available financing. The report Read More...
Latest Austin Area Market News Bulletin - March 23, 2008 to March 29, 2008
Courtesy of Alamo Title Company The Week in Review March 23 - March 29, 2008 (compared to the same week in 2007) New listings up 33.07% Pendings are down 75.27% Solds are down this week by 55.45% As for Average Prices: Mar. 23 - Mar. 29, 200 8 (compared 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...
Austin Housing Market Still Sizzling!!
The Austin Business Journal reports that austin area home sales for May increased for the second month in a row. A new record was set for May, single-family home sales (2,679) were up two percent compared with May 2006, according to the latest Austin Read More...
Baffled By Foreclosure?
The Texas A&M Real Estate Center publishes a Tierra Grande, a monthly Journal of a wide variety of interesting basic and advanced articles related to Texas real estate. This Journal is available to the public. An interesting recent article in the Read More...