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The Human Capital Institute posted its top ten cities list for the most popular cities people want to relocate to for work.  Austin is #6 on the list.  Click here for their key findings and to see the list.  You will also see the bottom 10 picks. Want info about Austin?  Call 512-293-2422.

If you saw my post from a few days ago about fog following the Colorado River valley, you know that the for isn't generated just by the water of Lake Austin.  This shot shows the thin, soupy fog as it rolls over Mansfield Dam from Lake Travis.  It is too thick to see the dam, but you get the idea. This one shows the fog ...

I was in a discussion with Gary Keller, the Keller of Keller Williams, and other REALTORS last week and part of the discussion was the local real estate market.  You read all the time lately about the national real estate bubble and that just isn't true.  Real estate is a local thing.  Just as real estate is local, local is ...

I've written about the Austonian before, but here is a bit more.  This 55 story condo project in downtown Austin is going to be pretty fancy.  Amenities are said to include built-in cappuccino machines, bathrooms with marble walls and a lounge on the 54th floor.  But wait, there's more...  There will be a dog park that ...

The Austin job scene is on fire compared to 5 years ago.  From 2003 through 2006, the Austin MSA gained almost 81,000 jobs.  Last year saw over 33,000 of those new jobs.  That is a huge number.  People are coming from all over to work at Samsung's new chip manufacturing plant, data centers for HP and Home Depot, ...

Any Austinite who has a history of driving 620 from 183 to 35 or 183 beyond 620 knows how frustrating it can be getting through all the traffic lights.  The folks who are building the toll roads U.S. 183A and TX 45 hope to ease that frustration when traffic starts flowing on the new roads.  TX 45 will make getting from 183 a ...

There are a lot of high-rise condominium, apartment and mixed use buildings that are planned for the downtown Austin area.  I posted a little about this a few weeks ago when I wrote about a 55 story condo tower being planned for downtown Austin.  The planned high-rise developments will literally change the landscape of downtown ...

If you are relocating to the Austin area or even if you are relocating within the area, you will need to know who provides what and where.  What I'm talking about is utility providers.  You will need to know where to look for utility providers for water, electricity, phone, cable, waste, recycling and gas (if gas is available).  ...

I went to the site I have bookmarked for the official Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR) Austin MLS map and I couldn't access it without logging into ABoR.  When I logged in I saw that I could access either the old Austin MLS map or the new Austin MLS map.  In other words, the ABoR version of the Austin MLS map isn't available ...

I was speaking with a construction manager who works with a national home builder yesterday. I was curious about his take on new home starts in 2007.  Last year saw a record in terms of new home starts.  Toward the end of the year inventory wasn't selling as quickly as earlier in 2006.  Austin area builders were offering greater ...