Austin Real Estate and Investment Properties

Here are two interesting articles from the Wall Street Journal about the strength of the Texas real estate market. The first article discusses the attractiveness of investing in the stock of publicly traded, Texas homebuilders. Because the broader economic indicators in Texas point to a stronger economic recovery in Texas (and less of a recession ...

Information provided by Ted C. Jones, PhD, Senior Vice President—Chief Economist, Stewart Title Guaranty Company. --April 2009 Time to buy is RIGHT NOW! U.S. home prices have declined across the nation in the past year—albeit at varying levels. Latest national price declines range from as little as 4.5 percent (Dallas, Texas) on a ...

Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 1:28pm CDT Austin ranks No. 1 for job growth potential Texas dominates a new list on job growth potential among the nations largest metropolitan areas. Austin ranks No. 1 on the list of big cities for employment potential from NewGeography.com. The Capital City posted modest job growth of just 1 percent in 2008 but that ...

Best and Worst Bang for the Buck Citiesby Abha Bhattarai Wednesday, October 15, 2008 provided by © ShutterstockYour money will go farthest in Austin.The economic storm sweeping the country has left Americans with few places to hide.But those looking to hunker down might want to head to Texas, where they can get the best value for their ...

Take Control: Where are the hot jobs? Once again Austin, Texas proves to be untouchable compared to the rest of the nation! ABC NEWS March 12, 2008 Top 5 Cities to Find a Job:   1. Salt Lake City, Utah, tops the list in job growth with opportunities in nursing, education and banking. 2. Witchita, Kan., where aircraft and petroleum ...

Market Soars As Fed Cuts Interest Rate Tuesday September 18, 5:25 pm ET By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer Federal Reserve Slashes Interest Rate by a Half-Point; Market Soars WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a bold strike, the Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate by a half point on Tuesday -- the first cut in over four years -- and left the ...

  1,110 homes and apartments and 800,000 sq. ft. of commercial planned   Austin Business Journal 24 August 2007     Leander TX -24 August 2007 -Another piece of Leander's planned transit-oriented development is heating up as a Dallas-based developer plans a new project that will take shape partly within the ...

  Austin Business Journal- 10:56 AM CDT Thursday, August 16, 2007   The cost of Austin-area homes has increased 5.6 percent in the last 12 months as prices on the national stage dropped 1.5 percent, a report released Wednesday shows.   The median price for a home in the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan market stood at $186,600 ...

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, August 08, 2007 Backed by healthy job growth, Central Texas' real estate market is expected to remain strong in 2008, a Texas economist predicts. The strength should span the region's housing, retail and apartment sectors, though the office market might lose some steam, said Mark Dotzour, chief economist ...

For the record, the top 10 green cities listed by MSN City Guides are: Austin Berkeley Boston Chicago Minneapolis New York City Philadelphia Portland San Francisco SeattleAustin leads the pack and is the home base of Whole Foods markets and Lance Armstrong. Austin Energy offers Green Power, the greenest power grid in the country. Near the middle ...