May 2007 - Posts
I was in San Antonio a few days ago and noticed something I seem to see almost everywhere. I drove past Fair Oaks Elementary School as school was letting out. In the pick-up line and parking lot I saw only two vehicles that were not vans, trucks or SUVs.
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Check out the website for the proposed Crosswater Yacht Club . This mammoth marina, if approved, will be on Lake Travis in Graveyard Point. To access it, people will have to drive through Lakeway and that has a lot of people fired up. The proposal says
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I posted other day about how the Austin area's unemployment is going to be a problem. At 3.2% and with over 4% in job growth I am wondering just where the employees will come from. The example I used was the Bee Cave area where the Hill Country Galleria
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Looking back at a post I did yesterday about current Austin real estate market stats made me want to take a deeper look at the Lake South (LS) Area of the MLS. I posted yestarday on one of my blogs that the LS Area had 725 homes on the market and that
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Too low - can this really be a problem? In my opinion, yes and let me explain. The unemployment rate in the Austin area is as tight as it has been since 2001. Our jobless rate fell to 3.2%. Job growth is very strong at 4.4% in April. A low unemployment
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I saw a comment from someone looking for stats in MLS Areas DT and UT. The problem with the new Areas is that we have no past data to pull so we can not give any statistical info yet. We are not able to differentiate between what was Area 4 before being
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Austin is an interesting city for many reasons. With land ranging from hills to flat, Austin can be difficult to navigate if you don't know the area. If you can see downtown, you have a landmark. If you have any sense of direction you know if you
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A group from Atlanta has announced plans for a high-rise condo and hotel project in the Domain. At 28 stories, this will be the tallest building in Austin outside of the downtown area. The Domain is a huge development in northwest Austin that has and
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I saw an article in the local paper the other day about the national housing market slow-down and decided to look a little more closely at this subject. The first thing the article talks about is the slowdown in the lower priced homes due to the huge
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Stevie Lee and Tony Jeffery, former UT Longhorn football players, came out fo a fundraising event for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Here is picture of the guys with me. Stevis is on the left and Tony is in the middle. Can you guess which one played
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This photo of my daughter, Major Applewhite and me was taken a few years ago when Major was the celebrity guest at the fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at Johnny Fin's. Thanks to Major being there for autographs, the silent auction and
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Marble Falls is getting a hospital and that is big news that may have up to a 120 bed capacity.. Even better, Scott & white will manage the facility. This will be a an acute care hospital with all the bells and whistles including trauma services,
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Another downtown Austin condo project has been announced and this one is one of the more expensive ones. With units ranging from $1 million to $6 million, this will be the most expensive condo project in downtown. For these prices, the units had better
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