West Lake Hills Austin

West Lake Hills Austin is one of the most beautiful small towns in the entire state of Texas. The unique Hill Country provides a colorful backdrop for this wealthy suburb of Austin. Located on the west side of the city in premier, Austin TX real estate and Travis County, this community provides its residents with the enviable combination of urban …

Austin Homes for Sale By School District

People looking for Austin real estate often choose their prospective neighborhood by its school district. In particular, the Eanes Independent school district and the Austin Independent school district are preferred. It is easy to see why homes for sale in these areas are so popular. The Eanes Independent school district has an exemplary rating for each of its nine schools. …

MORE JOBS FOR THE AUSTIN TX ECONOMY

More employers are moving operations to the Austin area.  As our nation moves from more manufacturing to a more intellectual economy Austin Texas continues to be a beneficiary as we have a very tech savvy work force and high level of education.  Here is an article about Visa opening a facility in town.  As a direct result the real estate …

Highway construction at the 71/290 Y at Oak Hill

Being in South Austin Texas this topic has been a hot topic for years.  There have been plans to build some kind of extension on the highway where the freeway ends in a two lane road into a stop light.  It does not take much figuring to realize that putting a stop light at the end of a freeway is …

Home Prices Keep Rising in the Austin Area

We have seen a bit of a slow down in the real estate market in the last month for the Austin Texas area. However, since about March of this year we have had some record activity and have seen prices rebound to the same price levels as we saw in 2007 when homes prices peaked in the Austin area. The …

We have a new Blackberry application for searching homes!

Do you like to search homes from your mobile phone? Check out this link to download our new Blackberry application: https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/135747/?lang=en. We will have the application ready to work with the iPhone, iPad and Driod in the next week to two weeks. We are very excited about these new applications!

Making the move to Downtown Austin

I read an article in the Austin American Statesman today and this is one of my favorite lines, “it wasn’t so long ago as recently as the mid- to late 1990s that very few people were living downtown and of those that were, about 20 percent of them lived at the county jail.” We have seen a tremendous increase in …

GM moving to Austin!!

GM is about to bring/hire 500 people for computer data base center in NW Austin Texas. The stream of people just keep coming to Austin. This move for GM once again shows how Austin is a very tech heavy area. We have a very educated work force and as the economy shifts more and more from production and manufacturing to …

They are finally opening the 290 Fly over!!!

Anyone who lives in S. Austin from Circle C, to Shady Hollow, to Travis Country, to Sendera, to just about anywhere in the 78745, 78749, 78748, 78736 zip codes will appreciate this. For years it has been difficult for us South Austinites to get onto 290 headed towards I-35 from MoPac. Friday that all changes. They will officially be opening …

Is Austin TX Real Estate going to be too expensive?

I read an article today in CNN about affordable homes and how many markets the median price is more than what a family at the median income can afford.  In the past 12 years since I have been selling homes in Austin Texas I have seen prices rise significantly, yet when compared to the other “popular markets” like California, Florida, …