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Texas ranks No. 1 for financial professionals

djusting for Texas’ low cost of living, financial professionals in the Lone Star State make more than anywhere else in the country. This is from Accounting Principals, which measured four areas — entry-level salaries, mid-level salaries, top-level salaries and increase/decrease in total amount of financial professionals since the 2009 recession — in a recent study. […]

How to Sell Your Home for Top Dollar: Insider Tips

How to Sell Your Home for Top Dollar: Insider Tips Staging your house can make you money. Seventy-one percent of sellers’ agents believe a well-staged environment increases the dollar value buyers are willing to offer, according to the National Association of REALTORS® “2015 Profile of Home Staging.”

First-time home buyers struggling to close deals in Austin

First-time home buyers struggling to close deals in Austin If you’re looking to buy a home in Austin, you may notice two things; the homes are expensive, and the market is aggressive. A new report shows Austin has the most expensive homes on average in the state. “It’s a big investment, we are putting our […]

Biggest Fixer-Upper Ever: Texas Megamansion Can’t Find a Buyer

Biggest Fixer-Upper Ever: Texas Megamansion Can’t Find a Buyer This enormous hunk of partly built real estate outside of Houston, which is on the market for $3.6 million, has been called “haunted,” a “disaster,” and a “mystery.” But here’s what this unfinished, sprawling Texas property really is: a multimillion-dollar fixer-upper. The massive home, abandoned and […]

5 California Dream Homes for Sale From ‘Million Dollar Listing’ Agents

5 California Dream Homes for Sale From ‘Million Dollar Listing’ Agents If you can’t wait until Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles starts next month, all you need to do is take a glimpse at what the show’s star agents have on sale right at this very moment. Prepare to lust after California dream vacation homes […]

NAR Identifies Top 10 Markets in Dire Need of More Single-family Housing Starts

NAR Identifies Top 10 Markets in Dire Need of More Single-family Housing Starts WASHINGTON (September 19, 2016) – Single-family home construction is currently lacking in 80 percent of measured metro areas despite steady job creation and the low activity is creating a housing shortage crisis that is curtailing affordability and threatening to hold back prospective […]

The Most Anticipated Austin Restaurant Openings, Fall 2016

The Most Anticipated Austin Restaurant Openings, Fall 2016 Also tracking: – Iconic Green Pastures got a sprucing courtesy of La Corsha Hospitality Group, and the new digs will be unveiled sometime this fall. – Austin’s favorite jam maker Confituras is opening up a cafe and shop this October on South Lamar, with those lovable spreadables, […]

Kelso: What’s so smart about $482 million ‘smart corridors’ plan?

Kelso: What’s so smart about $482 million ‘smart corridors’ plan? I’m not smart enough to know if the city of Austin’s plan to put in a bunch of so-called smart corridors is such a smart idea. See, the city intends to eventually put in eight or nine of these smarty pants roadways, the idea being […]

Texas AP Poll Has Westlake & Lake Travis in Top 5

Texas AP high school football poll Here is The Associated Press high school poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records, points based on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, and the team’s ranking in last week’s poll: Class 6ASchool Total Points Prv 1.

Austin-Round Rock home sales, prices rise in August 2016

Austin Board of REALTORS® releases August 2016 Central Texas Housing Market Report AUSTIN, Texas – Sept. 15, 2016 – The Central Texas summer selling season ended on a strong note in August 2016, with annual gains in both single-family home sales and prices, according to the August 2016 Central Texas Housing Market Report released today […]

SOLD: 4611 Chiappero Trail

SOLD Such a perfect home in a perfect location.  I originally located this home for this client as a diamond in the rough.  Would you believe that it originally sat on the market for months?  Along with Corias Homes, Inc., we worked as a team to bring out the home’s full potential with great success.  […]

Why You Should Avoid Zillow at All Costs

Why You Should Avoid Zillow at All Costs This post is hosted on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and post freely to our site. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email. Why You Should Avoid Zillow at all Costs….and Trulia and Realtor.com…etc In a […]

Round Rock Among Fastest Growing Suburbs in US

Austin suburb makes fastest-growing cities list CENTRAL TEXAS – It’s not a secret that Central Texas is becoming one of the most sought after places to live in the country. But now, a new report shows the masses aren’t just flocking to Austin, but the surrounding areas as well.

Austin Tops the CNBC Metro 20: America’s Best Places to Start a Business List

The top start-up mecca in the US is far from Silicon Valley Jason Ballard has found Austin, Texas, to be very hospitable to his retail store TreeHouse, a sustainable home-improvement store. The 25,000-square-foot facility stocks eco-friendly items such as bamboo flooring, and thermostats that allow users to turn down the heat when they are away.

See How Much Austin Renters Spent This Spring (2016)

  See How Much Austin Renters Spent This Spring (2016) This April, Austin was the 20th most expensive city to rent in the nation. One bedroom units were priced at a median of $1,150 and two bedroom units at $1,500. This city came ahead of Houston, Charlotte, and Nashville in our most recent national rent […]

Austin-area home starts near 10-year high

Austin-area home starts near 10-year high A surge in second-quarter activity sent Central Texas housing starts to their highest annual level in nearly a decade, fueled by the region’s healthy job growth, the latest figures show. Builders started construction on 13,423 houses during the 12 months that ended in June, according to Metrostudy, which tracks […]

This Historic Frank Lloyd Wright Home in New Jersey Is up for Grabs

This Historic Frank Lloyd Wright Home in New Jersey Is up for Grabs Now’s your chance to live in a rare piece of architectural history. Recently, the largest of four Frank Lloyd Wright-designed houses in New Jersey has hit the market for the first time in over 20 years. According to Curbed, the famed James […]

Austin young professionals clamor for these homes in trendy neighborhood

Austin young professionals clamor for these homes in trendy neighborhood Austin’s Riverside area has been labeled “up and coming” for a while, but we have news: Riverside already has arrived. The bustling entertainment district – just a stone’s throw from downtown Austin and Lady Bird Lake – is now a go-to spot for trendy eateries […]

21 Reasons Why Everyone Is Moving to Austin

Everyone’s Moving To Austin, Texas Lately. Here Are 21 Reasons Why. As one of the fastest-growing cities in America today, locals here in Austin, Texas know the pace of change can sometimes take your breath away. But what makes Austin such a desirable hotspot? We love to debate that topic almost as much as we […]

Scorching Austin real estate market poised for another record-breaking year

Scorching Austin real estate market poised for another record-breaking year Austin is on track for yet another record-breaking year in real estate. That’s according to the June and Midyear 2016 Central Texas Housing Market Report released by the Austin Board of Realtors (ABoR), which details the city’s scorching housing market and our steadily increasing home […]

3 Ways Homebuyers Can Manage a Seller’s Market

3 Ways Homebuyers Can Manage a Seller’s Market – NerdWallet You can trust that we maintain strict editorial integrity in our writing and assessments; however, we receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners and get approved. Here’s how we make money.

Pending Home Sales Tick Up in June

Pending Home Sales Tick Up in June The anticipated boost of more buyers signing the dotted line did not come to fruition in June despite mortgage rates near all-time lows. Pulled higher mostly by a solid rise in the Northeast, pending home sales last month only squeaked out a small gain (0.2 percent) and are […]

4 Austin companies we want to work for right now (and they’re hiring!)

4 Austin companies we want to work for right now (and they’re hiring!) The kiddos don’t have to be the only ones celebrating a first day of something. With area schools starting up just around the corner, perhaps it’s time to shift your career path to have your own “first day” at one of Austin’s […]

Love ‘old Austin’? Good news: City ranked No. 2 best for senior citizens

Love ‘old Austin’? Good news: City ranked No. 2 best for senior citizens If you’ve been around long enough to remember when Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard was 19th Street, and if your mouth still waters when you think of a flame-kissed Holiday House hamburger, the Austin of today might seem unfamiliar at times. But […]

Texas Tops Best Places to Work and Live

Texas Tops Best Places to Work and Live Whether you are a recent college graduate or looking for a fresh start, location matters when it comes to finding a job and an affordable place to live. You not only want to find a high-paying job but you want to stretch the dollars you earn.