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March 2021 Housing Statistics for Austin, TX and surrounding MSA
No surprise here, the City of Austin has surpassed the half million dollar median sales price mark this month at $514,000. The Austin-Round Rock MSA w...
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Where do you get your real estate news? Blogs...Social Media... National newspapers... I'm always looking to stay on top of the national real estate market but I've have trouble finding good sources. The major news ou...
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So I just finished the Sales Agent course, I am going to schedule my test on Monday. But let me get this straight - to be a Real Estate Sales Agent you basically have to be part Attorney, part Accountant, part Loan Of...
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I'm getting a seller credit at closing for $8000. My Mortgage broker at Ruoff says I should use $4500 for closing costs and 3500 for rate buy down (3900 gets me to 6.25%). This saves me approximately $100 per month (3...
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I was listening to a podcast the other day that had some smart guys on it that said values should go down 5-6% for every .25 rise in interest rates. Would you agree with this? I can see the math of what they are say...
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26...By Patrick ClarkOctober 26, 2017, 2:00 AM PDTRents have increased rapidly across U.S. housing markets as the share of renting households has risen faster than the ...
With doomsday headlines and lagging consumer confidence, how should you proceed in 2024? Time to get the advice of TWO senior economists! BiggerPockets’ Dave Meyer talks with ZILLOW’s Orphe Divounguy and REDFIN’s Chen...
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In the "inland empire" CA it appears that the buying depression is over,, I am making an offer on a 3/2 house in my hood and the first day it was listed (yesterday) the front of the house looks like the disneyland pa...
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I have used 2 different CPA's and they all seem to think alike. Both prefer I max out my SEP IRA / HSA before putting the money into real estate. I put a nice chunk of cash into both but I want real estate to be my m...
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I'm just getting started with investing heavily (putting more money than else where) on RE because I'm bullish on Austin RE market.. I know there are few posts related to this but they seem to be old and things have d...