Stats on Seasonality in Austin?

[Ethan Anderson]

I'm in the Bay Area, and looking to educate myself about buy and hold opportunities in Austin -- where I have family.

Can I ask how investors can get clean historical data on Austin's real estate market? I'm mainly trying to get a sense of seasonality. Is data on metrics like sales volume, or $/sq ft, by month and year readily available? If so, how granular does that data get. Can you slice by the ZIP and property type?

Thanks for any guidance you can share with a newbie!

Ethan

[David Ivy]

@Ethan Anderson

The best way to get clean historical data on Austin's real estate market is though the Austin MLS. However, you need to be a member of the Austin Board of Realtors to access it. I'm happy to pull whatever stats you'd like. The stats available are just about as fine-grained as you could want. Let me know what you'd like to see in particular.

You asked about seasonality. As an example, here is a chart of SFR sales volume by month over the past 5 years in Austin:

Here's the raw data for the above chart:

Let me know what else you'd like to see.