Here are the April/2025 MLS single-family statistics for Austin, TX: No way to sugarcoat April’s home sales numbers as they were quite disappointing. Front-end actively like pendings, sales and Activity Index all trending in the negative direction. Home prices dropped, though by small percentages. The last 6 months have seen a lot of turbulence from the presidential election, tariffs,...
Buyers, sellers, investors — all have been affected by the shifting market, locally, nationally and globally. Although the numbers for what constitutes a “balanced” market vary somewhat by source, a 6- to 6 1/ 2-- month supply (meaning the time it would take to deplete the supply of available listings at the current sales pace) generally is considered a market in balance, with neither buyers...
Here are the March/2025 MLS single-family statistics for Austin, TX: The numbers for our Austin metro single-family home sales in March looked much like our February numbers and a retreat from our March/2024 numbers (below). This is not unexpected due to the changes our country is experiencing right now and the uneven stabilizing of our market after the rapid interest rate increases of 3...
The vast data centers needed to power artificial intelligence are in high demand, and Texas is at the center of a new boom to build the physical infrastructure behind the digital revolution. Due to its relatively cheap electricity, abundant land, and business-friendly policies, Texas has seen rapid growth in data centers, especially the facilities needed to run the energy-intensive computations that...
ICON, the Austin-based construction tech company that literally "prints" homes from a giant robotic 3D printer, plans to build a dozen of its houses at Mueller. Prices are expected to range from the mid-$300,000s to $1.3 million. The one- to three-bedroom homes will range in size from 650 square feet to 2,400 square feet. Full article here: ICON plans to “print” a dozen of its houses at...
Here are the February/2025 MLS single-family statistics for Austin, TX: At first glance, it may look like February broke with our improving market trend in the past few months since there are so many red categories. However, Feb/2024 was one of only 2 months in all of 2024 that had 6 green categories (only 2 red ones) so it was clearly an aberration from the norm. For instance, Jan/2024 had...
Fewer jobs are being created. Fewer people are moving in. Mortgage rates remain stubbornly high. Home prices are still elevated relative to where they were. All those factors will combine with reducing demand for housing in the Austin region this year, real estate expert Eldon Rude told 700 industry professionals Feb. 18 at his 22nd annual housing market forecast. Full article...
“Worrying is like paying a debt you didn’t owe.” – Mark Twain The above quote ties into what I want to discuss with this post: Worry about the direction of our national and local home sales markets. There is no doubt we’ve been through the wringer the past few years starting with Covid 19 five years ago, followed by record-setting interest rate increases beginning 3 years ago and then...
Steady as she goes. That about sums up the 2025 outlook by real estate experts for the housing market in the Austin metro area, a five-county region stretching from Georgetown to San Marcos. Peering into their crystal balls, several leading experts who have tracked the ups and downs of the Central Texas real estate market for years, even decades, foresee stable conditions this year. Full article...
Here are the January/2025 MLS single-family statistics for Austin, TX: At first glance, it may appear that our January Austin home sales market gave up some ground when compared to the last 3 months of 2024 after it looked like we were gaining momentum. However, it is important to remember that we only compare the same month’s data when looking at past history. I posted the past...
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