Austin Real Estate | Lake Travis Real Estate

Fox 7 News in Austin aired a story this morning about Lake Travis High School.  LTHS has been in the news a lot lately, but mainly because of the amazing football team that won state last year and that is flying high this year.  This story featured the LTHS Interact Club, a club that I have worked with as a Rotary Club adviser since ...

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 - its highest ranking yet. According to the magazine (The Top of the Class, newsweek.com, 2007), ...

After the post about football and education I had a comment posted by Dan.  His comment made me think I need to post about the level of education the Lake Travis ISD provides.  As someone who has had kids in the district, who has subbed for 4 years in the schools, who knows a lot of kids and who still works with a community service club ...

Austin Realtor's wife left a comment after my post about Robin Hood (property tax redistribution) as it relates to the Lake Travis ISD.  I have seen what she commented about - "lesser" school districts getting new band uniforms, computers, etc. every year thanks to districts like Lake Travis being robbed by the state. Here ...

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 the days on market (time to sell) was high. If you know the LS area you might wonder why it is so ...

There is a piece of land of about 1050 acres west of Austin that will be turned into a very nice community of luxury homes if the developer gets everything permitted.  What was the Covert Ranch will become Vizcaya, a community slated to have around 500 homes, walking paths, a golf course and a marina on Lake Travis.  ...

The Lake Travis ISD has announced its new LTISD school attendance boundaries.   With rapid growth in the area, new schools will be needed.   Serene Hills Elementary school is under construction right now and will be ready for the next school year.  As more people purchase real estate in Lakeway and ...

Quite often real estate values are impacted by the quality of schools in the area.  One significant thing that attracts people to south Lake Travis area real estate is the Lake Travis Independent School District (LTISD).  At one time, each school was very well ranked by the Texas Education Agency. However, the 2006 rating ...