Austin Real Estate and Investment Properties

AUSTIN HOME SALES Area home sales jump, fueled by tax credit By Shonda Novak AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Existing home sales in Central Texas rose 6.4 percent in September, the first year-over-year increase in more than two years, and the median sales price also was up, rising 2 percent to $185,250, the Austin Board of ...

Austin-area real estate market shows improvement over last year Austin Board of REALTORS® releases September 2009 real estate statistics   AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. 20, 2009 – According to the September 2009 Multiple Listing Service report by the Austin Board of REALTORS®, activity in the Austin-area real estate market has ...

 It's a great long term trend for Austin. Knowledge workers will increasingly play a strong role in the economic health of a community. Startups and company growth depend on having a well educated work force and Austin is well positioned with 120,000 students enrolled in some type of upper education program. That number grows to 300,000 ...

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 ...

UT residential tower breaks ground Austin Business Journal - 3:09 PM CDT Wednesday, September 19, 2007   A groundbreaking event was held today for 21 Rio, the 158-unit high-rise apartment development going up near the University of Texas campus.   At 21 stories, the project at Rio Grande and 21st Street will be the tallest in the ...

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 ...