This is from todays Austin Business Journal. I haven’t had a chance this month to do my own stats yet. The difference between the stats I run each month and the stats published by the Austin Board of Realtors, is that I filter out Condos and Townhomes and report only single family home sales. Looks [...]

Sunday’s Austin Statesman has a front page story about rising tax appraisal values in Travis County, and how those value increases are affecting home owners who are being priced out of their neighborhoods. One lady, quoted below, now has property taxes alone of $1500/mo, which is probably more than her house would rent for. This [...]

I was out one evening last month with a friend of mine who is also a Realtor. We drove in his $50K Mercedes SUV, which, at two months old, still had the new car smell. He had written up two Buyer deals that day and remarked to me that he thought his new sled was [...]

Turns out “Flip This House” got flipped. One of the star flippers is nothing more than a con man who had his friends and family posing as buyers and who really didn’t fix or sell the houses he was shown to be flipping on Flip This House. Amazingly enough, the only episode I ever saw [...]