Austin Accolades & Rankings 2015

The national brokerage and research company, Redfin Corp., has provided great insight in the economy of Austin, most particularly in the performance of its real estate. It has identified three neighborhoods in the Austin area that are doing ...

Freddie Mac’s forecast for the 2016 housing market is a paradox; the mortgage powerhouse expects that changes in the mortgage market are inevitable, yet it is unsure on how new game players such as marketplace lending may or may not become the ...

The summer of 2015 is a momentous time for Austin. The number of people living in the five-county metro area surpassed the 2-million mark sometime midyear, as observed by Austin-based company Lawnstarter. Lawnstarter’s source, Ryan Robinson, ...

Once again, Austin has proven itself a worthy contender for the title “one of the best places to live in the U.S.”. Using 18 key metrics to find the best cities for veterans within the nation’s 100 largest metros, Wallethub ranks ...

A recent study by Payscale, an online compensation analysis service, assessed which cities were the best for millennials just starting out in the workforce. The Austin-Round Rock metro made number four on the list, beating out other high-profile ...

Austin housing statistics continued its rising trend this Summer, with homes sales increasing twelve percent year-over-year to 3,149 sales in July. To see which markets were the hottest in the country in August, Realtor.com ranked the nation’s ...

Realtor.com ranked the hottest U.S. ZIP codes where homes are selling the quickest and how frequently homes are viewed. Austin’s 78729 ZIP made number eight on the Top 10 list, beating out the coastal community of Carlsbad, CA. According to ...

The annual report “Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2016” published by the Urban Land Institute and PwCLLP ranks Austin as the first in the nation for development and second for overall real estate prospects. Announced in the national fall ...

Financial website, WalletHub, conducted a study of 300 U.S. cities with more than 300,000 residents to find which real estate market was the “healthiest.” Austin ranked as the healthiest overall real estate market in the nation based on ...

Evidence of a nationwide recovery from the Great Recession is evident in the continued improvement of housing markets across the country, according to a recent analysis by financial website Wallethub. In fact, the site goes further to credit the ...

Recent data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows that thirty-two percent of existing home sales were purchased by first-time home buyers in May. It’s the highest percentage that demographic has reached since September 2012. ...

Austin real estate overall sales reached historic levels in June, topping $1 billion for the first time in its recorded history. A report on BizJournals.com also revealed that for the first time in two years, the number of sales topped 3,000. ...

Wallethub, a financial site dedicated to helping consumers make better financial decisions, recently compiled a list of the “Best & Worst Large Cities to Live In.” Based on 31 key metrics including job market, recreation, percentage ...

Across the U.S., there’s been an increase in business startup activity since last year. Many of the nation’s top 40 metro areas also saw increased new venture activity. The news is according to the Kauffman index: Startup Activity, which ...

National Association of Realtors compiled data on how long it’s taking homes to sell in the U.S. A report on the data was posted to their site and showed that Texas real estate, along with some other states, has had the least amount of days on ...

RealtorMag.com, an online news site provided by the National Association of Realtors, has published a list of the 20 hottest U.S. markets for the month of June. Austin made the list out of 300 medium and large sized markets where homes are selling ...

Huffpost Travel recently posted an article by Suzy Strutner that includes her list of 14 reasons why Austin is the weirdest city in the world. From chicken poop bingo to a live flying bat show, Austin has an array of abnormal activities for the ...

Mortgage rates dipped last week after Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairwoman, announced that short-term federal funds rates would be reduced to reflect a conservative economic outlook for 2015. Yellen went on to state that the rates may rise later ...

In this age of limitless information available at the click of a mouse, people increasingly attempt to act as their own realtor with market data they obtained from real estate sites. In fact, in December alone the online real estate behemoth Zillow, ...