Doug Mellen's Austin Area Real Estate Blog

If you're in the market to buy, there hasn't been a better time in several years.  Interest rates are still relatively low and the inventory is high--in short, it is truly a Buyer's Market.  As we enter the traditional "selling season", the period in time between Memorial Day and Mid-Summer, activity normally ...

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 Park, Leander, Round Rock and ...

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 from Residential Strategies Inc. shows that there are more than 5,800 condo units ...

February 15, 2008By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and RON NIXONAUSTIN, 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 struggling industrial Midwest, the huge run-up in values in recent years has given way to big ...

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 than in big coastal cities. But where and how much those cities are thriving might ...

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 July 2006 issue focuses on issues related to foreclosure.  As the article state, there ...