January 2008 - Posts
Interested in HUD foreclosures? There is more to them than you may realize. First, just because a house is a foreclosure, that doesn't automatically make it a great deal. If you are a new investor or buyer looking for HUD homes, you need to become
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Fellow Austin real estate agents: Fed up with the MLXchange as much as many others are? Go to http://www.keysurvey.com/survey/99246/12f2/ and leave a comment. We need to bury these people with comments about why MLXchange is bad and we need to demand
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For severl months I have bee hearing rumors about a Homeland Security office somewhere on Highway 71 west of Bee Cave. I have no way to confirm this or how many people would be employed there. If any readers know anything, please let me know. I can be
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Several things caught my eye today in the news and from the National Association of REALTORS (NAR). First, Anglos Angelou, who I have heard speak several times, gave his economic outlook for Austin 2008. He basically said that he expects 2008 to be flat,
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If you use my Search Austin Homes page or the search page on other Austin real estate agent's sites, you may not get accurate information returned to you. The Austin Board of REALTORS® changed MLS systems to a system called MLXchange a few months
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I just got the latest Austin real estate market statistics from Keller Williams showing the number of units sold by MLS area. This compares 2007 to 2006 and shows a slow-down in most MLS areas. To make more sense of this, click to see an Austin MLS map
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As I sit this morning after having read the newspaper, I am reflecting on how Austin’s economy and housing market are doing compared to back in 2001. That was when our tech-heavy economy went in the tank after the national tech bubble burst. That
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I looked in my office mailbox this morning and found a thank-you card with a $50 gift card to Chili's. The card was sent by a lady I worked with a few weekends who was looking for a home to lease for her brother. Rebecca called pretty last minute
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The date has been set for the kick-off meeting for the 2008 Relay For Life of Lake Travis. It will be February 15 at Buster's BBQ, which is on RM 620 in Bee Cave, at 6:30PM. For the last 6 years I have been involved in the American Cancer Society
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Some time ago the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR) announced a change of MLS systems. Replacing a system called Tempo, which most of us liked quite a bit, would be MLXchange. The new MLXchange was supposed to have all the bells and whistles and everyone
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I posted a few days ago about the big population increase in Texas, but now I have some other stats more specific to Central Texas, which includes Austin. If you understand anything about real estate markets, you know that job growth and population growth
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