April 2008 - Posts
Hey Readers - I love comments, but please don't sp@m me. If you want to leave a comment, please do, but leave a real name rather than something like Dallas Real Estate Broker. Go ahead and leave a URL, but don't put html in the comment hoping
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Over the last several weeks I have seen a lot of Canadian buyers registering on my website to look at real estate in Austin. Most have been from eastern Canada, but some have been from other parts of our neighbor to the north. These visitors made me wonder
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The Lakeway Regional Medical Center will break ground this summer. Some retail is projected to open in 2009 with the actual hospital opening in 2010. The hospital will be have 140 beds, 24 hour emergency services, labor and delivery and loads more. There
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I posted recently about the city of Austin wanting to force home sellers to bring homes to meet certain energy efficiency standards prior to being allowed to sell. I also posted that I am against this. What I do like to see is private industry taking
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Sales of new homes in Apache Shores have really fallen flat. By new, I mean built in 2007 or later. Only 3 new homes have sold in Apache Shores in 2008 and there are 2 under contract. There are currently 36 active listings for new homes in Apache Shores.
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Did you know that Texas is home to the headquarters of 58 Fortune 500 companies? We took the lead from New York, which has 52. Big business has been in Texas for a long time, with companies like Dell, Exxon and American Airlines, but more have moved here
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If you haven't seen it yet, check out Google's new Street View. Google sent Googlemobiles all over cities like Austin snapping photos as the car went down the streets. They used geo coordinates to try to tie photos to address and are amazingly
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I wrote some time ago that UT was rumored to be planning a medical school in Austin. Well, we seem to be getting closer and closer to an announcement. There are four possible locations for the medical school and many people in Austin are endorsing it.
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This is a pan of the field at the Lake Travis High School track 15 minutes before the 2008 Relay For Life of Lake Travis began. The event was held April 11 & 12. We don't have the final numbers yet, but it looks like we had move than 35 teams,
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From the Lake Travis ISD weekly e-newsletter: "For the third year in a row, Lake Travis High School is listed as one of Newsweek's Top 1,300 schools in the country. This year, the campus jumped more than 200 spots to be listed at number 503 -
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Big Brother once again thinks it knows better than the public what is best for us. Austin Mayor Will Winn and several City Council members want to force improvements to Austin houses before they can be sold. What these people want to do is make certain
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I have been getting call and emails asking me to find people great deals since the Austin market is slowing. Buyers from other markets have been coming and low-balling sellers all over the place. Is it reasonable to expect a great deal in Austin? Are
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The highway that runs from Oak Hill out to the Marble Falls area and beyond has seen a huge increase in traffic as the area has developed. The highway was not built for today's traffic and there are some areas of the highway that are very problematic.
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The front page of the Statesman today had an article about two new high rise buildings coming to downtown. They will be 16 and 49 stories tall and will provide downtown Austin with more hotel rooms condos, office and shops. The rendering in the Statesman
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