The model homes dotting Austin’s northern suburbs come with rate buy-downs, closing cost credits, and move-in-ready kitchens. But the purchase price often hides at least three costs that can push a household toward financial distress within the first two years of ownership. None of these costs show up on a listing sheet or during a ...
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Homeowners who purchased in Central Texas near the market’s mid-2022 peak are now sitting on roughly 20 percent less value than what they paid. That is not a rounding error; it is a meaningful loss on paper, and local brokers say many of these owners are effectively stuck. They cannot sell without bringing money to ...
The Central Texas housing market has gone through a significant reset since its 2022 peak, and for buyers willing to do their homework, that correction is creating real opportunity. Prices in Williamson County – which covers communities like Georgetown, Round Rock, Leander, and Cedar Park – have declined roughly 20% from their highs, while sales ...
Austin's Luxury Market May Have Hit a Floor - but the Forces That Pushed Prices Down Haven't Cleared
After a period of declining values that followed Austin’s pandemic-era price surge, prices in the city’s luxury segment appear to have stopped falling. For buyers who have been waiting for a better deal, that changes the calculus – but the political and economic uncertainty that suppressed demand in the first place has not fully resolved, ...
Austin’s median home price has dropped roughly 10% – from around $499,000 to $450,000, according to Laura Blessing, team leader of Blessed Life Realty Group at Keller Williams Realty. But that number obscures what confuses sellers: why one home on a given street sells in a week with competing offers while the house three doors ...
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In a pair of small Dallas suburbs with no mountain views and no waterfront, the median home price in Highland Park is roughly $4.6 million. The premium has little to do with scenery. According to Eve Sullivan, who has sold real estate in the Park Cities for 26 years with the Sullivan Tillery Group, the ...
A few years ago, Dallas–Fort Worth buyers competed in bidding wars and waived inspections. Now they are asking sellers to help cover their costs – and in most transactions, they are getting it. According to Katherine Hubbard of DFW 1% Listings, a flat-fee brokerage in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro, roughly 90 percent of her current ...
When a large landlord or equity fund lists a former rental property in Dallas-Fort Worth, the home that reaches the market is not always what a buyer expects. These were investment assets managed for cash flow, not curb appeal. Deferred maintenance is common. Cosmetic updates were rarely a priority. And for buyers drawn to the ...
In a city with enough inventory to give buyers real leverage, the segment of the Houston housing market that should be busiest, homes priced between $300,000 and $600,000, is among the slowest to move. Properties below $300,000 are attracting first-time and value-oriented buyers, and listings above $500,000 continue to draw move-up purchasers with less rate ...
A declining median price usually signals a cooling market. In Northeast Dallas, the story is more complicated. The number of homes selling in 2026 has actually increased compared to 2024 and 2025, according to Cindy Dunnican of The Dunnican Team at Coldwell Banker Apex, who has worked the Northeast Dallas market since 1998. But the ...
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Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...
The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...
The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...
In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...
For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...
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