Here are some key highlights from the report, which compares January 2025 with January 2024:The median sales price for the greater Austin metro fell 4.7% to $409,765, while the City of Austin saw a 4.7% increase to $553,465.Total sales in the metro rose 1.1%, whereas the city saw a 4% decrease in closed sales, demonstrating continued demand in spite of economic challenges.Pending sales under contract dropped 7.5% in the metro and 1.4% in the City of Austin, suggesting a slight decrease in demand at the start of 2025.Listing inventory increased 16.5% in the metro and 15.5% in the City of Austin, resulting in 5.6 months of available housing inventory in the metro and 6.2 months in the city, approximately one month more than in January 2024.According to the Texas A&M Real Estate Center, a balanced real estate market has around 6.5 months of inventory.

Once again, the main concern is a decreased living expense, but I also want to purchase in an area with long term appreciation potential.

Increase earnings, decrease expenses, save up, and then you can invest. 

But just like a lot of things, what is increasing here, could be decreasing in a few cities over.

The number of active condo listings off the beach decreased also, from 1838 to 1781. 

You would then simply transfer it back to the named borrower.If you wanted to decrease the DOS issue, you can transfer to a revocable trust with the entity as beneficiary. 

Then I would do a low risk flip ( rehab less than a few weeks) for hopefully a 10-15% profit, repeat until I have a nice down payment and am sure that I would be able to qualify for a refinance, then buy a buy and hold then continue flipping until I get to the next buy and hold - in theory, the time between each property should decrease as I should be getting capital from the buy + hold as well as I would already have my reserves built up.

Fingers crossed.Seeing as though Florida's economy is largely vacation driven, I feel as though large sales tax increases might actually find them seeing decreased revenue from the orlando areas seeing as though Disney prices are already in bubble territorThoughts on any of this ?

The long-term moves are to get a concession to buy down the rate for good (not a 2-1 or 3-1 buy down), it's a smaller number (i.e. .25% or .5% decrease on the rate), and getting their full closing costs covered is money out of their pocket today they'll be saving that could be huge to give the buyer more money for repairs and/or furniture along with just life expenses. 

With median list prices and price per square foot increasing month over month, it's a fantastic time for sellers, and the decrease in days on market highlights the strong demand in the area.