Texas | Hippie Hollow Homes | Sell Your Austin House - Part 6

Need to Sell a house in Austin Texas?

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In today’s housing market most people don’t realize that it is still possible to sell a house quickly. Even in places like Austin, Texas, where the housing market tends to be a little slow, it can actually be easy to quickly sell your home as long as you properly market it. This means that you are going […] Read more »

You Can Still Sell Your House in Austin, Texas

Sell your house in Austin, Texas

Despite the problems with the rest of the country, you can still sell your house in Austin, Texas By sidestepping the national real estate bubble that has particularly decimated the once thriving economies in the south west part of this country, the Austin housing market served as a stabilizing force for the Central Texas economy. […] Read more »

Austin Home Prices Expected to Rise in 2012

Austin Home Prices

Case Shiller Home Price Index Predicts Austin Home Prices Expected to Rise in 2012 Despite the recent study that shows that Austin metro area home prices fell by 2.3 percent in 2011, the fact that Austin home prices expected to rise in 2012 is welcomed news. Austin Home prices will see a growth of 0.6 percent […] Read more »

Almost 3 out of 10 Homeowner Mortgages are Underwater

Homeowner Mortgages are Underwater

29% of Homeowner Mortgages are Underwater Zillow announced today that 28.6% of homeowner mortgages are underwater nationwide, meaning that the mortgages are higher than the value of the home.   What this means, for example, is that if you took out a mortgage on a home for $120,000 and the home is now worth $100,000, […] Read more »

Austin Home Starts Increase

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Does the Austin Home Starts Increase Mean the Housing Market Is Beginning To Recover? There is definitely some positive housing news coming out of the Central Texas real estate market recently.  Consider the following statistics recently released from the Austin Statesman: the annual home starts pace improved for the first time in more than a […] Read more »

The Latest Foreclosure Report for Austin, Texas

Latest foreclosure report for Austin

What Does the Latest Foreclosure Report for Austin, Texas Tell Us About the Real Estate Market? (September 28, 2011) There is good news bad news for the Austin real estate market. First, the good news:  the latest foreclosure report from the Foreclosure Listing Service Inc shows that foreclosure notices for this month are down 18.5% from […] Read more »

August Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas

Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas

August Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas Shows Some Good News Austin home sales are up by 30% for the second consecutive month.  Here are some highlights from the Austin Board of Realtors report released earlier this month: According to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) report released today by the Austin Board of REALTORS®, 1,978 […] Read more »

July Home Sales Report for Austin Texas

Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas

Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas There is good news and bad news in this months Home Sales Report for Austin, Texas real estate. The good news is that Austin area home sales are up for the month of July! This means that fellow Austinites bought more homes in July than they did a year […] Read more »

Can I Sell A House with a Lease Option in Texas?

Lease Option Is NOT an Option in Texas The Lease option used to be the ‘go to’ strategy for selling their house if the seller had little to no equity.  However, thanks to the Texas State Legislature, which despite only meeting every other year still manages to create inane rules and laws, the ability to […] Read more »

What is a Loan Forbearance?

Forbearance

Should I Pursue a Loan Forbearance? There is so much written in the media today about loan forbearance plans and loan modifications that many homeowners mistakenly consider these items as actual alternatives.  Quite frankly, I shy away from loan mods and loan forbearance plan because while they sound good in theory, in reality, they are […] Read more »