Bee Cave Neighborhoods

We love the City of Bee Cave - a community just 20 minutes west of downtown Austin. With the opening of the new Hill Country Galleria and a 50 acre city park underway, Bee Cave residents enjoy modern conveniences in the Texas hill country. Want to know more? Check out our Bee Cave neighborhoods. We’ve added several in the last week - The Homestead, Bee Caves West, Meadowfox Estates, Falconhead West, and the Heights of Falconhead. We’ve also added several neighborhoods in the Bee Cave extraterritorial jurisdiction - The Preserve at Barton Creek, Barton Creek Preserve and The Madrones.  Spanish Oaks, Lake Pointe, The Uplands and Falconhead complete the Bee Cave neighborhoods list.

To learn more or tour Bee Cave real estate, please contact us at 512.600.1800.

What will $1M get you in Austin?

Austin, Texas is known for its real estate affordability as compared to other idyllic places to live. While one million dollars in a city in California just might get you a fixer-upper, in this Texas town that’s far from the case. For example, check out this newly listed home in one of Austin’s most sought after communities, Spanish Oaks. For $1M on the nose you could live at 11919 La Barzola Bend:

We highlight this home not only because it’s our newest listing, but also because we think it’s one of the finest homes at this price point we’ve seen. And we’ve seen a lot of homes. Besides the great location in Bee Cave with easy access to Highway 71, 290, Southwest Parkway, and FM 2244 (Bee Cave Road) and across the street from the new Hill Country Galleria, 11919 La Barzola sits on a hill behind the 24/7 guard gated entrance in Spanish Oaks. The attention to detail is what sets the home apart as you can see from the photos on the 11919 La Barzola Bend virtual tour website. 

If you are interested in this home or other Austin homes for sale, or if you just want to learn more about Austin real estate, please contact Michael Reilly at 512.600.1800. Or start your Austin home search using the great search tools at AustinHomeListings.com. 

Austin - Still hot!

AMD, Borland, Paypal, and others are setting up shop in Austin. The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday that the reason is the relatively cheap Austin real estate and our highly educated work force. Those being the major drivers, we can’t help but point out the Austin scene has to be another big draw - the lifestyle Austin affords is hard to beat with abundant outdoor recreation opportunities, a great night life, new shopping, and unique neighborhoods.

Recreation includes in town hiking, biking and jogging around Town Lake (recently renamed Lady Bird Lake), swimming at Barton Springs, and soccer and disc golf at Zilker Park just to get started. The Veloway, Barton Creek Greenbelt, Hamilton Pool, and Lake Travis are additional draws for outdoor enthusiasts.

And night life? Restaurants like La Traviata, Uchi, Moonshine, Asti, and Jeffrey’s continue to impress. And an Austin stay without experiencing a little of Sixth Street, The Saxon Pub, Continental Club, or The Backyard would mean a missed opportunity to see why Austin has earned the moniker of Live Music Capital of the World. If you can, try to catch a show with The Mother Truckers, an Austin original.

And shopping? Trendy shops on South Congress and those near Lamar and 6^th keep Austin unique, and new shopping at The Domain and the upcoming Hill Country Galleria in Bee Cave bring upscale shopping to the area and prove that Austin is indeed a hot spot for growth.

And the neighborhoods? That’s what Austin Home Listings knows best. Be sure to read up on and see pictures of popular neighborhoods like Pemberton, Belterra, Hyde Park, and Lake Pointe in our Austin Neighborhoods Guide, or search for listings in 100+ neighborhoods using our neighborhood QuickSearch at the top right of this page.

We’ll admit to being a little biased, but we agree with people making the decision to move business and families here. It’s hard to beat the Austin lifestyle.

If you want to learn more about Austin Texas Real Estate, we would love to help! Contact Great Austin Properties - the Real Estate Brokerage that brings you AustinHomeListings.com - at 512.600.1800.

Cedar Parks national attention

Cedar Park is a bit outside the Austin city limits, but it is an attractive part of the overall Austin residential real estate market. Once just a collection of farms, ranches and and a small town center, it has benefited from the recently completed improvements to Highway 183. Just twenty miles from downtown Austin, it combines great access to Austin amenities (workplaces, etc.) with a slightly more rural feel. This once-sleepy town has grown rapidly, but it has also grown well. So well that it was recently ranked one of the top cities in the U.S. for families.

In a story in this week’s Austin Business Journal, we learned that Family Circle Magazine named Cedar Park a top family community in its August 2007 issue. The magazine worked with an East Coast research firm, On Board, to survey nearly 2,000 U.S. municipalities with a small-town sized population (between 15,000 and 150,000) and better-than-normal average income ($65,000). They then winnowed their list by looking at other quality of life factors like health care, air quality, cost of living, etc. Cedar Park ended up in their top ten. Not too shabby.

If you have been wanting to learn more about homes for sale in Cedar Park, you can use the convenient “search by zip code” feature on our Web site, www.AustinHomeListings.com, and enter the city’s central zip code, 78613. Or, look at properties in a classic Cedar Park development like Avery Ranch. Either way, there are plenty of great homes available in what is now nationally known as a great place for families.

Great country living around Austin

In an article in this past Sunday’s Austin American Statesman, M.B. Taboada wrote about the increase in larger country homes selling around Austin. Focusing on areas of Hays County like Buda, San Marcos and Dripping Springs, the author described a growing trend toward larger homes on larger acreage. Drawn to the idea of living with no neighbors visible from one’s windows, people are seeking out the privacy and greater contact with nature possible with Hill Country living. Doing a quick search today through our site, www.AustinHomeListings.com we found 23 listings in Travis County on lots larger than 25 acres. However, when you widen the search to lots that are five acres and above, 158 listings pop onto the screen. So, depending on your definition of country living, you can find a wide variety of great Austin homes for sale that feature Hill Country views within reasonable driving distance to Austin’s cultural amenities. Also, our search system will reveal land listed for sale that could provide the ideal site for the dream home you’ve been wanting to build. So, be sure to click through to www.AustinHomeListings.com or call us at 512.300.0928 to start your search for your own little piece of country living.

More downtown Austin living

Although a lot of people progress toward the suburbs as the ultimate place to live, there is a growing push to downtown Austin living. With condo developments like the Austonian and the Four Seasons gaining steam and the continuing emphasis on urban living from Austin city planners, the inventory of downtown living space is increasing in quality and quantity. A story in this week’s Austin American Statesman announced the latest addition to both Austin’s distinctive skyline and downtown living options. In addition to 200 condos, the 21c Museum Hotel will feature 209 hotel rooms, a restaurant and, most interestingly, a museum.

Modeled on the successful 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, the building should have a nice combination of amenities that make it ideal for Austin. Known for its culture, Austin is just the kind of place for a great new restaurant and an art museum. Interestingly, the developers declared their intentions to earmark a number of the condos as living space for artists with pricing to match. It’s one thing to invest in the arts by buying a painting or sculpture, but another thing entirely to keep artists around with affordable housing. If that’s not reflective of an Austin approach to things, we don’t know what is.

If you’re interested in downtown living, you can use our unique search tool that quickly gets you to the area you want. Simply click here to search Austin Condos and Lofts - Downtown Living or call us at 512.300.0928. If you want to be in the center of the action in downtown Austin, let Great Austin Properties get you there.