http://austinhomelistings.com/blog Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:24:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today marks a new chapter in AustinHomeListings.com's history.  Great Austin Properties, an Austin residential real estate company, created AustinHomeListings.com to provide users with the easiest to use Austin home search tool for finding properties and reviewing neighborhoods.  You've probably noticed that we’ve made some changes to the site today in terms of appearance ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/10/08/new-look-new-rules/ Lakeway, Texas is a growing city just northwest of Austin. Once known as a lakeside retirement community, Lakeway is now home to a number of young families. Thanks to its close proximity to Austin, the great schools in the Lake Travis School District, growth of business in the area (nearby shopping in Bee ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/09/22/lakeway-tx-neighborhoods/ Those with interest in home design have likely heard of Sarah Susanka's ingenious book, The Not So Big House. Ms. Susanka encourages readers to consider how spaces in a home are used rather than how big they are - the idea of building homes that fit and function well rather than ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/09/19/a-not-so-big-luxury-home/ The Austin Business Journal (ABJ) reported this week that Austin came in second nationwide in a study conducted by the American City Business Journals. In fact, Texas held the top three spots with Houston coming in first and Dallas-Fort Worth rounding up third. Specifically, Austin posted an annual employment growth ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/09/15/austin-job-growth-came-in-2nd-nationwide/ 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 ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/09/03/bee-cave-neighborhoods/ Today, Forbes ranked Austin #5 in a list of cities where home prices are likely to rise. To calculate their rankings, Forbes.com analyzed statistics such as Moody’s job growth (4.7% for Austin), the National Association of Home Builders record of housing starts (down 28.2% in 2008 for Austin) and their ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/08/26/austin-ranked-5-on-new-forbes-list/ The Austin Board of Realtors reported this week that Austin area home sales fell nearly 21 percent in July compared to this time last year.  Although the sales drop was spread across all price ranges, the majority of the reductions in sales came from the high and low end of ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/08/22/austin-home-sales-down-20-from-2007/ The Austin Business Journal (ABJ) reported this week that 700 condos from 12 different projects located near downtown were either put on hold or canceled indefinitely.  The ABJ’s analysis concluded that the main driver behind the stalled projects was a combination of the national economic slump, the tough credit market ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/08/21/down-austin-condo-projects-stalling/ The Austin Business Journal reported comments today from Mark Dotzour, chief economist at Texas A&M University's Real Estate Center. Mark predicted that "Austin will outperform the rest of the country in job growth and in the health of its housing market."  The ABJ went on to quote Mark saying "Austin will add ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/08/20/austin-will-recover-faster-than-rest-of-us/ Did you know AustinHomeListings.com is available to you thanks to a team of local Austin Realtors who want to help you purchase and sell Austin real estate?  That's right...the professional Austin Realtors at Great Austin Properties, LLC run this website hoping you will love the site so much that you will allow one of ... http://austinhomelistings.com/blog/2008/07/07/meet-our-realtors/