Austin Real Estate | Lake Travis Real Estate

There was an article today's Statesman that made me smile.  I am not opposed to development in the Hill Country, but I don't like high density.  What made me smile was reading about developer Russell Hinds having changed his development quite a bit.  What was to have been a 400 hone development has been replatted into ...

A developer, Ardent Residential, has shelved plans to build around an Austin landmark, the Broken Spoke.  Around since 1964, the Broken Spoke is an almost legendary country music venue and dance hall on South Lamar Street.  Ardent had planned on building apartments and retail space around the Broken Spoke, but shelved the plans ...

There was an article in the newspaper this morning about Williamson County Commissioners backing a purchase of 1011 acres south of Liberty Hill for a park.  The purchase price is reported to be $10.6.  The county was considering another smaller property that carried a higher price tag, but didn't go for that one.  There was no ...

There was an excellent extra section in today's Austin American Statesman Statesman.  It is their once a year publication of all kinds of stats, things to do, places to see, music, museums, hospitals, festivals, transportation, toll roads, light rail, parks, golf, public swimming pools, city government information, volunteer ...

Residents living close to Northcross are happy about a change in plans by Wal-Mart.  Two years ago, the huge discount retailer announced plans to build an almost 200,000 square foot store at Northcross Mall.  Area residents almost immediately formed a group called Responsible Growth for Northcross to fight the giant company.  ...

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 showed the buildings to be on the east side of downtown, but still west of IH 35 ...

Everyone in Austin is watching the downtown skyline transform as taller and taller buildings go up.  Well, here comes another.  Developer Tom Stacy has announced plans for a 66 story hotel and condo tower at 5th and Brazos.  Next to this will be a 32 or 33 story office/retail tower and 1200 car parking garage.  The 820 foot ...

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.  You will want to enlarge the view in your browser in order to see things ...

Two new communities are coming on line in the Lakeway and Bee Cave area. North Lakeway features town homes and single family homes. The prices range from the low 300's to the mid 400's. The town homes are 2,500 to 2,600 square feet. The single family homes are 2,250, 4,000 square feet. This project features great Hill Country and Lake ...

One of the developers of the Domain is moving forward with a new phase.  That includes adding a Whole Foods store, bringing in another high-end department store like the Neiman Marcus and Macy’s that is already in the part of the Domain developed by Simon Properties, securing tenants for the first of several office buildings and ...