The Austin Report

Another reason Austin is the best city in Texas is because of our next  "Caring Corporation",  Amy's Ice Cream.   Amy's Ice Cream is a locally owned company that makes incredible ice cream right here in Austin, TX.  Amy's Ice Cream was founded by Amy Simmons in 1987 when she wrote a "hot check" t...

One of the reasons Austin is such an incredible place to live is because we are surrounded by entrepreneurs and corporations who actually care about human beings. Case and point RunTex Corporation, flagship location 422 W. Riverside Drive, CEO Paul Carrozza, www.RunTex.com . The company's mission...

View Larger Map     Location, Location, Location...this is the first rule in real estate, anything can be overcome if it's located in the right place and Austin scores triple digits in this category. Austin is located in the middle of what is fondly called the Tech Triangle...but since everything...

As most of you know, our normal fall foliage colors go from green to not so green to brown to GONE, but we have had some beautiful colors this year. I think it's due to the rains we received a few months ago. I've noticed tremendous yellows, reds, oranges and purples throughout the city ranging f...

Hello, First I'd like to give you some background info on my love affair with Austin, Tx. It began a long time ago when I was in high school in Houston. I attended the High School for Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) as most of us called it. I majored in Theatre Arts and as a Theatre Arts major...

What??? Say it isn't so, sadly it is...what does the title of this post mean??? I'll tell you...you see in order to use the $8000 Stimulus Money to buy a home in Austin, TX or in any other real estate market in the nation for that matter, buyers must close on their home on or before Dec 1, 2009....

Well...well..well, we finally received the details of Obama's "Stimulus Package". I must admit that I really didn't think it would make much of a difference in the real estate market, but I was wrong. If this week's listing activity is any indication of what's to come, then this package should b...

The stars at night are big and bright...Deep in the Heart of Texas! That's not to only thing great about Texas...more Texans are keeping their homes and that's great news. According to Gerald Klassen from Texas A & M Real Estate Research Center..."Foreclosures in Texas are down 28%". This is inc...

 Well...well...well... we've all heard the old saying, "what goes up, must come down", right? Well this holds true for real estate too and finally after many years of screaming "It will never happen here", Manhattan experienced a 34% decline in sales in the first quarter as compared to the same t...

When you look at the landscape that is real estate today, one would think that mortgage companies would jump at the chance to get an approved buyer to purchase a property that is close to foreclosure for only $5000 below it's appraised value right,Sadly, that's not always the case. The reason I d...