Archive for February, 2010
First Time Home Buyers Should Buy Now!
As we all know, the deadline for the $8000 tax credit for first time home buyers is fast approaching on April 30, 2010. Below is a video Michaela and I made to give you more information about both the credit for first-time buyers and $6500 credit for move-up buyers: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser [...]
North Austin Real Estate Market Report – January 2010 numbers
This is the first of our monthly Market Reports which will give buyers and sellers an idea of how different market segements are preforming. The first chart we have is Market Activity for the major markets in North Austin. We always use the most recently compiled statistics, which for the month of February would be the [...]
Home Buyer Seminar
The real estate market in Austin, Texas is always changing ( just like everything else) and as the old saying goes, what worked today may not work tomorrow. No industry has undergone more change in the last year or so than the mortgage industry due to the financial crisis. As a result, it is now more important then ever [...]
How to Stop Foreclosure In Austin Texas
Before you can stop foreclosure of your Austin, Texas home, or any location in Texas for that matter, I feel it is important to understand how the foreclosure process works. In Texas the process is actually a three step process: 1. Notice of default must be given to the homeowner. With that notice the home [...]
Time to Buy Lake Travis Real Estate
2010 may be the best time in recent years to move to the Lake Travis area of North Austin. The inventory of homes for sale in the Lake Travis area are currently at record high levels. The chart I’ve included below breaks down the inventory levels for both the South Shore of Lake Travis (known in real [...]
Experts Predict Decline in Housing Prices for Austin
Recently a client who is searching for a deal on a foreclosed property sent me the following article on a predicted decline in housing prices in Austin Texas. The person passing it to thought this would create a great opportunity to ” get a deal” on a foreclosed property. Experts Predict Decline in Housing Prices [...]
Facing foreclosure in Austin Texas?
As sad as it maybe for those facing foreclosure in Austin Texas there are alternatives available to you. One of the options may be a short sale if you meet certain criteria. Very simply in a short sale I market your home at market value for a buyer, once an offer materializes I then will negotiate with the [...]
My Austin Home Search
Often I think real estate agents don’t realize what the public goes through when they are searching online for homes in Austin Texas. With that in mind I went out and visited as many site as I could to see what was out there. I went to the big ones such as Realtor.com and AustinHomeSearch.com and any [...]
